Gaelic Games Europe

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Irish:	Cumann Luthchleas Gael na hEorpa
Province:	Overseas County
Dominant sport:	Gaelic Football

The European Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael na hEorpa) or Europe GAA is one of the boards of the GAA outside Ireland, and is responsible for organizaning Gaelic Games in continental Europe. The board is responsible for the European Gaelic football, Hurling, Camogie and Ladies' Gaelic football teams.

Competitions format

With Europe County comprising all of continental Europe with great distances between each team, the County Board adopted a system of rounds in the form of tournaments so that every team has the same chance to win the championship. Every year six to eight rounds are played to determine the new champion. A tournament is competed in a single day with pool stages or in a round-robin format leading to a final. Semi-finals and ranking matches can be played if needed to determine a ranking of every team present on the day. Each team gains a number of points depending on its ranking at each tournament (25 points for the winner, 20 points for the runner-up, etc.). After each tournament points gained are added to determine the championship winner at the end of the season.

Gaelic football

European Gaelic Football Championship
Founded	2001
Title holders	Guernsey (1st title)
First winner	Paris Gaels
Most titles	Den Haag (4 titles)

European Gaelic Football Shield
Founded	2006
Title holders	Amsterdam (1st title)
First winner	Maastricht Gaels
Most titles	Copenhagen (2 titles)

Since 2006, the Men's competition has been played on a regional basis. County Europe is divided into 5 regions: Benelux, East and Central, Iberia, North West and Scandinavia. From February to August, each team plays in its regional competition with the top two teams qualifying for the European Championship. All other teams go on to play the European Shield. Championship and Shield are competed from September to November.

Past winners

Championship

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2011	Guernsey	den Haag
2010	Den Haag	Paris Gaels
2009	Den Haag	Paris Gaels
2008	Brussels Belgium	Paris Gaels
2007	GSC Luxembourg
2006	Den Haag
2005	Paris Gaels
2004	Munich Colmcilles
2003	Paris Gaels
2002	Den Haag
2001	Paris Gaels

Shield

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2011	Amsterdam	Copenhagen
2010	Copenhagen	Frankfurt Sarsfields
2009	Copenhagen	Frankfurt Sarsfields
2008	Copenhagen
2007	Ar Gwazi Gouez (Rennes)
2006	Maastricht Gaels

Ladies' Football

European Ladies' Gaelic Football Championship
Founded	2001
Title holders	Brussels Belgium (3rd title)
First winner	Brussels Belgium
Most titles	GSC Luxembourg (4 titles)

Past winners

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2010	Brussels Belgium
2009	Brussels Belgium	Paris Gaels
2008	Brussels Belgium
2007	Paris Gaels
2006	GSC Luxembourg
2005	Holland
2004	GSC Luxembourg
2003	GSC Luxembourg
2002	GSC Luxembourg
2001	Brussels Belgium

Hurling

Past winners

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2011	Inneoin Zurich	Den Haag
2010	Belgium GAA	GSC Luxembourg
2009	Belgium GAA	GSC Luxembourg
2008	GSC Luxembourg	Brussels GAA
2007	Den Haag	GSC Luxembourg
2006	Inneoin Zurich	Brussels GAA
2005	Inneoin Zurich	Munich Colmcilles
2004	Inneoin Zurich	Munich Colmcilles
2003	Den Haag	Inneoin Zurich
2002	Den Haag	Inneoin Zurich

Camogie

Past winners

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2011	Belgium GAA	Zurich Inneoin
2010	Belgium GAA	GSC Luxembourg
2009	GSC Luxembourg
2008	GSC Luxembourg

List of Clubs

As of 2007:

• Austria: Vienna Gaels (www.gaavienna.at)
• Belgium: Belgium GAA asbl (www.hurling.be www.belgiumgaa.com) (ex Brussels GAA), EC Gaelic Club of Brussels (www.playgaa.be).
• Denmark: Copenhagen GFC
• Finland: Northern Gaels HC
• France: Paris Gaels (Paris), Lutetia Celtiques (Paris), Ar Gwazi Gouez (Rennes), Entente gaélique de Haute-Bretagne (Liffré), Gaelic Football Bro-Leon (Brest), NEC Football Gaélique (Nantes), Gwenrann football gaélique (Guérande), Gwened Football Gaélique (Vannes), Dogues Gaelic Football Club (Saint-Malo), Gaelic football Bro Sant-Brieg (St Brieuc), Tolosa Despòrt Gaelic (Toulouse), Lugdunum CLG (Lyon), Dragons Eire'Lempdais (Clermont-Ferrand), Gaelic Football Club Niort, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand
• Guernsey/Jersey: Guernsey Gaels, Jersey GAA
• Germany:Frankfurt Sarsfields (www.frankfurtsarsfields.com), Na Fianna (Bremen), München Colmcilles, Nordrhein Westfalen Exiles, St. Kilians (Würzburg)
• Hungary: Budapest Rangers
• Luxembourg: Luxembourg Gaelic Sports Club (www.LuxGAA.lu)
• Netherlands: Amsterdam GAC (www.amsterdamgac.nl), Den Haag GAA ([1]), St. Martin's (Groningen), Maastricht Gaels
• Norway: Oslo (www.oslogaa.com)
• Spain: Barcelona Gaels, Costa Gaels (Marbella), Éire Óg Sevilla, Madrid Harps, Naomh Fermin (Pamplona), Valencia GAA, A Coruña Fillos de Breogán
• Sweden: Gothenburg, Malmö, Sweden
• Switzerland: Inneoin Zurich HC

External links

• Frankfurt Sarsfields GAA Club
• Hogan Stand article
• European GAA
• European Irish - 10 years reporting on the GAA in Europe
• European GAA News on hoganstand.com
• French Federation and clubs
• Belgium GAA Club
• Belgium EC Junior Gaelic Football Club
• Denmark GAA
• Finland GAA
• Luxembourg GAA
• Amsterdam Gaelic Athletic Football Club
• Groningen GAA Club
• The Hague GAA Club
• Mastricht Gaels
• München Colmcilles eV.
• Spanish GAA club sites
• Swiss GAA
• Valencia GAA
• Tolosa Gaels / Toulouse

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