31st European Youth Go Championships 2026
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
March 25-28(29), 2026
News
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
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
