European Ultimate Championship Series

Welcome to the home of the European Ultimate Championship Series (EUCS). This is a new European tournament structure for 2006 and beyond, establishing an annual European Ultimate Championship Series for open and women’s clubs. This annual tournament series allows top European clubs to compete against one another and crown a European club champion.

News
2008-10-08: 2006 EUCF Results from Florence, Italy

Women:
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1. Iceni (UK)
2. Bliss (UK)
3. Frisky Bees (AUT)
4. Hot 7s (CZ)
5. Leeds Leeds Leeds (UK)
6. Atletico (FIN)
7. Primavera Olandese (NL)
8. Misscoldisco (ITA)
9. Tequila BoomBoom (ITA)

Open:
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1. Skogshyddan (SWE)
2. Clapham (UK)
3. Ragnarok (DEN)
4. BigEZ (AUT)
5. Cota Rica (ITA)
6. Fusion (UK)
7. SOS (FIN)
8. Karhukopla (FIN)
9. Flying Angels Bern (SUI)
10. Fire of London (UK)
11. Freespeed Basel (SUI)
12. Woodies Sauerlach (GER)
13. CUS Bologna (ITA)
14. Mir San Zamperl Munich (GER)
15. HUT Helsinki (FIN)
16. Brighton (UK)

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2006-08-29 - The Central East and the North East Regionals were played over the past weekend. Five open and 4 women's teams from the CE quailfied for the EUCFs. From the NE EUCR, 4 open and 3 women's teams qualified. Congratulations to all the EUCF qualifiers. For more information about who qualified, please check the regional pages.

The website for the 2006 EUCFs is up and working, please check it out here!

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Since the series is as yet untested, the goal for the first year or two is to create a base structure and calendar in order to start the series and involve as many teams and nations and players as possible. The obvious and initial benefit of this tournament structure is to create better competition for the top European clubs and incentive for mid-level clubs to improve their games with the hope of making it to Finals (EUCFs).

Europe has been divided into four geographic regions. Each nation (or group of nations if they are very small) may send a maximum number of qualified teams to its European Club Regional (EUCR) tournament. The ideal entry to an EUCR would be from Country’s nationals results. However a national federation may also nominate its EUCR candidates. These teams at the EUCRs in turn compete to advance to the European Club Finals (EUCFs).

EUCR and EUCF tournaments will be standardized as much as possible in order to ensure fair seeding and important game-play throughout the tournaments. EUCR tournaments will be held from the second half of August to the first half of September and be centrally located in order to minimize travel times for regional teams.  The EUCFs will be held in mid-October in a nation offering the best bid. Attention will be paid to excellent fields and agreeable weather.

With the goal being to increase the level of play in Europe, combining teams and picking up ringers for the tournament series is discouraged.

The championship series is run by a staff of volunteers with support from the EFDF Director and staff at the EFDF. Other volunteers essential to the operation of the Series include committee members who specialize in elements of competition such as rules, eligibility and tournament formats.

By implementing this system it’s hoped that the level of European Club play will quickly attain the level of North American, Japanese and Australian Ultimate.

Any questions can be mailed to the Championship Series Committee at eucs(at)efdf.org.
If your email bounces, please send your note to dbrauchli(at)gmail.com and it will be
sent to the appropriate committee.