The 2020 European University Games would have been the 5th biannual

European Universities Games The European Universities Games (EUG) is an international multi-sport event, organized every two years for university athletes by the European University Sports Association (EUSA). The first edition was held in 2012 in Cordoba, Spain. On April 9, ...

(EUG). It was scheduled to be held in

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, Serbia from 12 July to 26 July. However, this event was postponed to 2021 due to the

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on 27 March 2020. The new dates proposed for the competition were from 14 July to 27 July 2021. On 5 May 2021 EUSA announced the games not being held. The event was planned involve 21 different sporting disciplines in the sports programme. It would have been organised by the

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(EUSA) and University Sports Federation of Serbia with the special cooperation alongside

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