The 2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival or simply EYOF 2025, also known as Skopje 2025, is the upcoming 18th edition of the

European Youth Summer Olympic Festival The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the fir ...

, held from 20 to 26 July 2025 in

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. This will be the first time the festival has been held in North Macedonia.

Bidding

On 26 October 2019, it was announced that the EYOF 2025 should be held in

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. But on 31 July 2023, it was announced that the festival would be held in Skopje instead.

Mascot

The mascot is an

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named "Shiny". The mascot represents warmth, unity, and friendship, and also implies EYOF's values. The mascot has been accused of being created using

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Sports

The following competitions will take place: Compared to 2023, skateboarding and tennis have been removed from the programme. Canoeing has been replaced with canoe slalom, making its EYOF debut. Badminton and table tennis will be present at the event for the first time since

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and

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respectively. For the first time, there will be events in shooting and taekwondo. For the first time, basketball will be played both in the regular format and the 3×3 format.

References

European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

Youth sport in North Macedonia Sport in Skopje

Youth Summer Olympic Festival

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