European Olympic Committees

European Olympic Committees
Category	Continental Sports Organization
Membership	50 National Olympic Committees
Abbreviation	EOC
Founded	1968
Regional affiliation	Europe
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
President	Spyros Capralos
Vice president(s)	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė
Other key staff	Secretary-General; Raffaele Pagnozzi; Treasurer; Peter Mennel
Official website
	www.eurolympic.org
	Official languages; English • French

The European Olympic Committees (EOC; French: Comités olympiques européens, COE) is an organisation based in Rome, Italy, consisting of 50 National Olympic Committees from the continent of Europe.^[1] Among other duties, the EOC organizes three major multi-sport events. These are the European Youth Olympic Festival, the Games of the Small States of Europe and the European Games.

The EOC has no connection with another multi-sport event called the European Championships, which are organised by various European discipline-specific sports associations.

Member nations

In the following table, the year in which the NOC was recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NOC was created.

Nation	Code	National Olympic Committee	President	Created/Recognized	IOC member	Ref.
Albania	ALB	Albanian National Olympic Committee	Viron Bezhani	1958/1959	Yes	[1]
Andorra	AND	Andorran Olympic Committee	Jaume Marti Mandico	1971/1975	Yes	[2]
Armenia	ARM	Armenian Olympic Committee	Gagik Tsarukyan	1990/1993	Yes	[3]
Austria	AUT	Austrian Olympic Committee	Karl Stoss	1908/1912	Yes	[4]
Azerbaijan	AZE	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan	Ilham Aliyev	1992/1993	Yes	[5]
Belarus	BLR	Belarus Olympic Committee	Victor Lukashenko	1991/1993	Yes	[6]
Belgium	BEL	Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee	Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant	1906	Yes	[7]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Marijan Kvesić	1992/1993	Yes	[8]
Bulgaria	BUL	Bulgarian Olympic Committee	Stefka Kostadinova	1923/1924	Yes	[9]
Croatia	CRO	Croatian Olympic Committee	Zlatko Mateša	1991/1993	Yes	[10]
Cyprus	CYP	Cyprus Olympic Committee	George Chrysostomou	1974/1978	Yes	[11]
Czech Republic	CZE	Czech Olympic Committee	Jiří Kejval	1899/1993	Yes	[12]
Denmark	DEN	National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark	Hans Natorp	1905	Yes	[13]
Estonia	EST	Estonian Olympic Committee	Urmas Sõõrumaa	1923/1991	Yes	[14]
Finland	FIN	Finnish Olympic Committee	Timo Ritakallio	1907	Yes	[15]
France	FRA	French National Olympic and Sports Committee	David Lappartient	1894	Yes	[16]
Georgia	GEO	Georgian National Olympic Committee	Leri Khabelov	1989/1993	Yes	[17]
Germany	GER	German Olympic Sports Confederation	Thomas Weikert	1895	Yes	[18]
Great Britain	GBR	British Olympic Association	Sir Hugh Robertson	1905	Yes	[19]
Greece	GRE	Hellenic Olympic Committee	Spyros Capralos	1894/1895	Yes	[20]
Hungary	HUN	Hungarian Olympic Committee	Zsolt Gyulay	1895	Yes	[21]
Iceland	ISL	National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland	Larus L. Blöndal	1921/1935	Yes	[22]
Ireland	IRL	Olympic Federation of Ireland	Sarah Keane	1922	Yes	[23]
Israel^[2]	ISR	Olympic Committee of Israel	Yael Arad	1933/1952	Yes	[24]
Italy	ITA	Italian National Olympic Committee	Giovanni Malagò	1908/1915	Yes	[25]
Kosovo	KOS	Olympic Committee of Kosovo	Ismet Krasniqi	1992/2014	Yes	[26]
Latvia	LAT	Latvian Olympic Committee	Žoržs Tikmers	1922/1991	Yes	[27]
Liechtenstein	LIE	Liechtenstein Olympic Committee	Isabel Fehr	1935	Yes	[28]
Lithuania	LTU	Lithuanian National Olympic Committee	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė	1924/1991	Yes	[29]
Luxembourg	LUX	Luxembourg Olympic and Sporting Committee	André Hoffmann	1912	Yes	[30]
Malta	MLT	Malta Olympic Committee	Julian Pace Bonello	1928/1936	Yes	[31]
Moldova	MDA	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Moldova	Nicolae Juravschi	1991/1993	Yes	[32]
Monaco	MON	Monégasque Olympic Committee	Albert II, Prince of Monaco	1907/1953	Yes	[33]
Montenegro	MNE	Montenegrin Olympic Committee	Dušan Sinomović	2006/2007	Yes	[34]
Netherlands	NED	Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation	André Bolhuis	1912	Yes	[35]
North Macedonia	MKD	Olympic Committee of North Macedonia	Vasil Tupurkovski	1992/1993	Yes	[36]
Norway	NOR	Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports	Berit Kjøll	1900	Yes	[37]
Poland	POL	Polish Olympic Committee	Andrzej Kraśnicki	1918/1919	Yes	[38]
Portugal	POR	Olympic Committee of Portugal	José Manuel Constantino	1909	Yes	[39]
Romania	ROU	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee	Mihai Covaliu	1914	Yes	[40]
Russia	RUS	Russian Olympic Committee	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	1911/1912 (restored 1993, suspended 2023^[3])	Yes/No	[41]
San Marino	SMR	Sammarinese National Olympic Committee	Gian Primo Giardi	1959	Yes	[42]
Serbia	SRB	Olympic Committee of Serbia	Božidar Maljković	1910^[4]/1912 (restored 2006)	Yes	[43]
Slovakia	SVK	Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee	Anton Siekel	1992/1993	Yes	[44]
Slovenia	SLO	Slovenian Olympic Committee	Bogdan Gabrovec	1991/1993	Yes	[45]
Spain	ESP	Spanish Olympic Committee	Alejandro Blanco Bravo	1912	Yes	[46]
Sweden	SWE	Swedish Olympic Committee	Hans von Uthman	1913	Yes	[47]
Switzerland	SUI	Swiss Olympic Association	Jürg Stahl	1912	Yes	[48]
Turkey	TUR	Turkish Olympic Committee	Uğur Erdener	1908/1911	Yes	[49]
Ukraine	UKR	National Olympic Committee of Ukraine	Serhiy Bubka	1990/1993	Yes	[50]

Former members

State	Code	National Olympic Committee	Created/Recognized	Disbanded
Czechoslovakia	TCH	Czechoslovak Olympic Committee	1919	1992
East Germany	GDR	National Olympic Committee of the GDR	1951/1968	1990
Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	Olympic Committee of Serbia and Montenegro	2003	2006
Soviet Union	URS	Soviet Olympic Committee	1951	1992
Yugoslavia	YUG	Yugoslav Olympic Committee	1919/1920	2003

Events

Notes

^ EOC members include transcontinental countries Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Russian Federation, as well as Israel, Cyprus and Armenia which are geographically in Asia but due to political-cultural reasons are often assigned to Europe.
^ Between 1954 and 1974, Israel took part in the Asian Games, but political pressure exerted by Arab countries due to the Arab–Israeli conflict led to Israel's exclusion from the re-organized Olympic Council of Asia in 1981 (See Israelis Facing Asian Ban). It then became a member of the European Olympic Committees in 1994.
^ IOC Executive Board suspends Russian Olympic Committee with immediate effect
^ The Olympic Committee of Serbia was founded in 1910, as a successor to the Serbian Olympic Club (source).

External links

Official EOC website

[1] EOC members include transcontinental countries Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Russian Federation, as well as Israel, Cyprus and Armenia which are geographically in Asia but due to political-cultural reasons are often assigned to Europe.

[2] Between 1954 and 1974, Israel took part in the Asian Games, but political pressure exerted by Arab countries due to the Arab–Israeli conflict led to Israel's exclusion from the re-organized Olympic Council of Asia in 1981 (See Israelis Facing Asian Ban). It then became a member of the European Olympic Committees in 1994.

[3] IOC Executive Board suspends Russian Olympic Committee with immediate effect

[4] The Olympic Committee of Serbia was founded in 1910, as a successor to the Serbian Olympic Club (source).

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