2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

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Host city	Skopje
Country	North Macedonia
Motto	Together, We Shine
Nations	49
Sport	13
Events	151
Opening	20 July 2025
Closing	26 July 2025
Opened by	Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
Torch lighter	Dario Ivanovski
Main venue	Jane Sandanski Arena (opening ceremony) Boris Trajkovski Sports Center (closing ceremony)
Website	https://skopje2025.sporteurope.org/
Summer
←  Maribor 2023 Lignano Sabbiadoro 2027  →
Winter
←  Bakuriani 2025 Brașov 2027  →

The 2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival or simply EYOF 2025, also known as Skopje 2025, was the 18th edition of the European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, held from 20 to 26 July 2025 in Skopje, North Macedonia. Some events also took place in Kumanovo, North Macedonia and in Osijek, Croatia. ^[1] This is the first time that the festival will be held in North Macedonia. ^[2]

Bidding

On 26 October 2019, it was announced that the EYOF 2025 should be held in Brno, Czech Republic. But on 31 July 2023, it was announced that the festival would be held in Skopje instead. ^[3]

Mascot

The mascot is an anthropomorphic sun named "Shiny". The mascot represents warmth, unity, and friendship, and also implies EYOF's values. ^[4]

Schedule

The competition schedule for the 2025 European Youth Olympic Summer Festival was as follows: ^[5]

OC

Opening ceremony

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

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Event competitions

July	20 Sun	21 Mon	22 Tue	23 Wed	24 Thu	25 Fri	26 Sat	Events
Ceremonies	OC						CC
Artistic gymnastics			2	2	1	5	5	15
Athletics		7	5	4	2	13	10	41
Badminton		●	●	●	●	●	3	3
Basketball		●	●	●	●	2	2	4
Canoe slalom					4			4
Road cycling			2		2			4
Mountain biking				2				2
Handball		●	●	●		●	2	2
Judo			4	4	4	4	1	17
Shooting		3	3	2	2	2		12
Swimming		2	8	6	5	11		32
Table tennis			●	●	●	●	3	3
Taekwondo				3	3	4		10
Volleyball		●	●	●		●	2	2
Total events		12	24	23	23	41	28	151
Cumulative total		12	36	59	82	123	151
July	20 Sun	21 Mon	22 Tue	23 Wed	24 Thu	25 Fri	26 Sat	Events

Sports

The following competitions took place:

2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival Sports program [6]
Artistic gymnastics ( details )   Athletics ( details )   Badminton ( details )   Basketball ( details )   Canoe slalom ( details )   Cycling ( details )   Handball ( details )   Judo ( details )   Shooting ( details )   Swimming ( details )   Table tennis ( details )   Taekwondo ( details )   Volleyball ( details )

Compared to 2023, skateboarding and tennis have been removed from the programme. Canoeing has been replaced with canoe slalom, making its EYOF debut. Badminton and table tennis will be present at the event for the first time since 2022 and 2007 respectively. For the first time, there will be events in shooting and taekwondo. For the first time, basketball will be played both in the regular format and the 3×3 format.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (North Macedonia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	19	19	12	50
2	France	15	18	5	38
3	Spain	10	11	12	33
4	Turkey	10	7	9	26
5	Great Britain	10	7	5	22
6	Poland	10	6	11	27
7	Hungary	10	5	11	26
8	Germany	7	4	12	23
9	Serbia	6	2	6	14
10	Switzerland	5	11	6	22
11	Ukraine	5	8	10	23
12	NOC Belarus	5	4	4	13
13	Belgium	4	3	3	10
14	Greece	3	4	6	13
15	Czech Republic	3	3	8	14
16	Azerbaijan	3	3	4	10
17	Lithuania	3	0	3	6
	Moldova	3	0	3	6
19	Sweden	2	5	3	10
20	Romania	2	2	8	12
21	Austria	2	2	5	9
22	Norway	2	0	0	2
23	Slovakia	1	5	2	8
24	Croatia	1	3	6	10
25	Slovenia	1	3	3	7
26	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	2	1	4
	Latvia	1	2	1	4
	Netherlands	1	2	1	4
29	Finland	1	2	0	3
30	Portugal	1	1	3	5
31	Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
32	Ireland	1	0	5	6
33	Cyprus	1	0	1	2
	Iceland	1	0	1	2
35	Estonia	1	0	0	1
36	Georgia	0	3	4	7
37	Israel	0	2	3	5
38	Denmark	0	1	5	6
39	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Kosovo	0	0	1	1
Totals (40 entries)		152	151	185	488

Source: https://skopje2025.sporteurope.org/schedule-and-results/

Participating nations

On 20 June 2025 the EOC announced that a Refugee Team would participate in the EYOF. ^[7] Athletes from Belarus competed as the National Olympic Committee of Belarus. ^[8] Russian athletes were not permitted to participate due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Participating National Olympic Committees

Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark EOC Refugee Team Estonia (53) [9] Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland (35) Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia NOC Belarus Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine

See also

• 2025 European Para Youth Games

References

1. https://x.com/the_eoc/status/1944317324498284947?s=46
2. "Скопје ќе биде домаќин на Европски олимписки младински фестивал во 2025 година" (in Macedonian). 30 July 2023.
3. Mackay, Duncan (2023-07-31). "North Macedonian NOC promise high-quality event after confirmed as 2025 Summer EYOF hosts" . Retrieved 2024-11-01.
4. "Meet Shiny, the official mascot for EYOF 2025". 12 November 2024. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
6. "Sports Skopje – Skopje 2025 – Sport Europe" . Retrieved 2024-11-01.
7. "EOC confirms EOC Refugee Team to compete at Skopje 2025 on World Refugee Day". The European Olympic Committees. 2025-06-20. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
8. "Participating Delegations – Skopje 2025 – Sport Europe" . Retrieved 2025-07-11.
9. "Eestit esindab Skopje olümpiafestivalil 53 noorsportlast". EOK . 17 July 2025.

External links

• Official website