European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation

Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, 2014 European Capital of Sport

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]

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

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:^[2]

List of European Capitals of Sport by year

Year	Municipality^[3]
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^[4]
2016	Prague
2017	Marseille^[5]
2018	Sofia
2019	Budapest
2020	Málaga
2021	Lisbon
2022	The Hague

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.^[6]

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.^[7]

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, Ostende, 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

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.^[8]

References

External links

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[rules-1] "Rules and regulations of the ACES".

[2] "GENERAL REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, CITY AND TOWN OF SPORT SELECTION PROCESS 2017" (PDF).

[3] "European Capitals of Sport List".

[juve-4] "Turin named European Capital of Sport 2015".

[bul-5] "Sofia Named European Capital of Sport 2018".

[6] "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES OF SPORT".

[7] "EUROPEAN CITIES OF SPORT".

[8] "EUROPEAN TOWNS OF SPORT".