European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation

The European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation (ACES Europe) is a non-profit federation based in Brussels which has granted the awards of European Capital, City, Community and Town of Sport every year since 2001.[1]

Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, 2014 European Capital of Sport
Crystal Hall in Zrenjanin, 2021 European City of Sport

These awards are given for a period of one calendar year.

ACES Europe is member of the European Platform for Sport Innovation.[2]

European Capital of Sport

The European Capital of Sport is awarded to a municipality that has an official population of 500,000 or more inhabitants in the European continent:[3]

List of European Capitals of Sport by year
Year Municipality[4]
2001 Madrid
2002 Stockholm
2003 Glasgow
2004 Alicante
2005 Rotterdam
2006 Copenhagen
2007 Stuttgart
2008 Warsaw
2009 Milan
2010 Dublin
2011 Valencia
2012 Istanbul
2013 Antwerp
2014 Cardiff
2015 Turin[5]
2016 Prague
2017 Marseille[6]
2018 Sofia
2019 Budapest
2020 Málaga
2021 Lisbon
2022 The Hague
2023 Glasgow
2024 Genoa

List of World Capitals of Sport by year
Year Municipality[7]
2019 Abu Dhabi
2020 Guadalajara

Community of Sport

The European Community of Sport is a title awarded to a community consisting of a maximum of three municipalities, which together have a population of between 25,000 and 499,999 inhabitants, in the European continent.[8]

City of Sport

The European City of Sport is a title awarded to a municipality that has an official population of between 25,000 and 499,999 inhabitants, in the European continent.[9]

List of European Cities of Sport by year
Year Municipalities
2007 Boadilla del Monte, Palermo
2008 Lleida, Rimini
2009 Marbella, Varese, Biarritz, Cardiff
2010 Salamanca, Novara, Gateshead
2011 Puertollano, Trieste, Treviso, Parma, Limerick, North Lanarkshire, Nice
2012 Bilbao, Castellón de la Plana, Florence, Pescara, Viterbo, Charleroi, Iași, Liberec, 's-Hertogenbosch, Preston
2013 Estepona, Lorca, Castelldefels, Cremona, Modena, Reggio Calabria, Alba, Guimarães, Pitești, Lisburn
2014 Córdoba, Getxo, Logroño, Santander, Ascoli Piceno, Biella, Brindisi, Cesena, Chieri, Iesi, Latina, Pavia, Prato, Rapallo, Constanța, Maia, Ostrava, Plovdiv
2015 Alcobendas, Alhaurín de la Torre, Badalona, Chiclana de la Frontera, Telde, Bordeaux, Loulé, Most, Burgas
2016 Gijón, Melilla, Las Rozas de Madrid, Crema, La Spezia, Molfetta, Pisa, Ravenna, San Giovanni Lupatoto, Saronno, Scafati, Chalon-sur-Saône, Setúbal, Tilburg, Stoke-on-Trent, Krško, Liepāja, Košice, Ruse
2017 Aosta, Bacau, Banská Bystrica, Bristol, Cagliari, Gondomar, Jurmala, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Mollet del Vallés, Noordwijk, Olomouc, Ostend, Pesaro, Stara Zagora, Vicenza
2018 Antequera, Arnhem, Banja Luka, Bassano del Grappa, Braga, Cluj-Napoca, Differdange, Foligno, Forlì, Guadalajara, Kielce, Klaipėda, Kortrijk, Maribor, Nitra, Pau, San Remo, San Cugat del Vallés, Santa Lucía de Tirajana
2019 Batumi, Coventry, Fuenlabrada, Ganja, Granada, Igualada, Kumanovo, Livorno, Mantova, Michalovce, Oristano, Pangaio, Portimão, Sisak, Soria, Torun, Varna, Vercelli
2020 Bijeljina, Cernusco sul Naviglio, Çorlu, Cosenza, Cosenza, Dakhla (Euro-Mediterranean City of Sport 2020), Kryvyi Rih, Limassol, Milton Keynes, Miramas, Odivelas, Pazardzhik, Piombino, Rovaniemi, Smallingerland, Trnava
2021 Zrenjanin[10]

Town of Sport

The European Town of Sport is a title awarded to a municipality that has an official population of between 1 and 24,999 inhabitants, in the European continent.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Rules and regulations of the ACES". Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  2. "Member Directory". The European Platform for Sport Innovation (EPSI). Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  3. "GENERAL REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, CITY AND TOWN OF SPORT SELECTION PROCESS 2017" (PDF).
  4. "European Capitals of Sport List". Archived from the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  5. "Turin named European Capital of Sport 2015". Archived from the original on 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  6. "Sofia Named European Capital of Sport 2018".
  7. "World Capitals of Sport List".
  8. "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES OF SPORT".
  9. "EUROPEAN CITIES OF SPORT". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  10. "European Cities of Sport". Aces Europe. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  11. "EUROPEAN TOWNS OF SPORT". Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2016-03-01.


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