31st European Youth Go Championships 2026
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
March 25-28(29), 2026
News
10th February 2026: We have 98 registered participants from 15 countries! Preliminary starting lists with updated ratings for all age groups are available all the time: Registration Page.
29th January 2026: Tomorrow is the last working day for registration and payment of Early Birds fee (30 EUR). As of Sunday, 1st February 2026, the Normal fee (40 EUR) will be applied. Exceptionally, players born in 2005 can register and pay the Early Birds fee by Saturday, 14th February 2026.
28th January 2026: The GLOBIS Cup is back! The prestigious youth tournament will be held in Tokyo between 25th and 29th June 2026. European go federation shall nominate the representative immediately after EYGC. It is going to be the winner of the U21 tournament. Stay tuned for more details on the EGF website.
12th January 2026: The details about travelling from the Zagreb Airport to the playing site are added to the Venue page.
5th January 2026: The payment details are published on the Registration page – the deadline for payment of Early Birds registration fees is 31st January 2026.
30th December 2025: We are thankful to all EGF-members who expressed their intention to participate in the 1st EGF Youth Teams Cup, to be held on 29th March 2026. The registration form is ready..
9th December 2025: We added the “live” lists of registered participants sorted by actual rating to the Registration page: U12, U16, and U20. Ratings will be updated every week.
25th November 2025: Since 2020, PairGo is a regular event at EYGC. We added the “Side-event” page describing the PairGo tournament system. Players who are interested should mark the checkbox “PairGo” when registering. Finding a partner a long before coming to EYGC is an important task.
13th November 2025: The registration of individual EYGC 2026 is now open. Players compete for trophies, medals and very interesting prizes. The tournament results of EYGC 2026 and EYGC 2027 will be combined to determine nominations for WYGC 2027. After the EYGC finishes on Saturday, March 28, 2026, a new team event will be played on Sunday, March 29, 2026: EGF Youth Teams Cup
4th November 2025: European Youth Go Championships 2026 will be held in Croatia, National Park Plitvice Lakes, the most famous national park in Croatia, 140 km south from Zagreb. Croatian Go Alliance will be providing updated information about the schedule, registration, accommodation and travelling information for all participants and accompanying persons. The tournament is supported by European Go Federation, under the patronage of Croatian Olympic Committee.
9th October 2025: We have re-started the preparation of 31st European Youth Go Championships, to be held in Jezero hotel Congress centre, Plitvice Lakes.
17th March 2020, 9 PM: The EYGC 2020 video: https://youtu.be/Qy-_wisiFq8
About EYGC
European Youth Go Championships is the top European youth tournament held for the first time in 1996 in Baile Felix, Romania. The results of all tournaments since then are available in the European Go Database. A nice overview can be found at the website of European Go Federation:
https://www.eurogofed.org/results/#eygc
The tournaments in the age groups U12 and U16 are the part of the World Youth Go Championships, sponsored by Ing Foundation, which has a long history, starting in 1984:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Go_Championship
The U20 tournament of EYGC was the qualification for the GLOBIS Cup, a prestigious tournament held 10 times between 2014 and 2023 in Japan, organized by Nihon ki-in. The GLOBIS Cup is now back!!
A beautiful work of art showing the history of EYGC has been prepared for the previous edition of EYGC, held in Moscow in May 2019:
History of European Youth Championships – Amazing Sand Painting
Go sets in the Congress Hall
