Tomorrow will start the 15th edition of Female European Championship in Luso (Portugal)

Tomorrow is the starting day of the 15th Senior Female European Championship. We return to Mealhada after the daring 14th edition in 2018 when the last final match was interrupted 105 seconds from the end due to a blackout during the passage of the hurricane Leslie and then completed in November. In this edition, there will be five participating teams and obviously the team to beat is Spain, five times consecutive European champions and three consecutive world champions. It is undoubtedly a sensational generation for the “Roja” that reflects the Spanish national championship that had never reached such a level. A championship that will also see Portugal, second in 2018, and Italy, third; France, fourth, and England, seventh and all will try to beat the Spanish team. This European Championship will be played from Monday to Saturday, with two matches one at 17:30 (local time GMT) and 20:00, where on the first day will also be held the opening ceremony, held by the local organizing committee of the Municipality of Mealhada and the Federação de Patinagem de Portugal. An event that will be experienced together with the public who will have free access (100% and 600 people allowed) to the Pavilhao Municipal de Luso, which has already been the scene of several important club competitions including the final stages of the Euroleague 2021.
The first matchday is set for Monday 11th October 2021, where the first game will be France-Italy at 17:30 (local time) and the official ceremony will be scheduled for 19:30 hour. The titleholder of the last 5 European championships will not play on the first day, instead, Portugal will fight against England at the end of the first day. The formula will be a single qualifying phase of 5 days all-against-all  and in the sixth day will be the final day with the crossroad by the ranking (1st against 2nd, 3rd against 4th)
After three years without a European confrontation, it is finally time to see the national teams at work and competing. The program will include this afternoon the training sessions of all five national selections and tomorrow the meeting of delegates and referees before the races.
On our site www.wseurope-rinkhockey.org/eurof there are all the rosters.

Pavilhapo Municipal de Luso

Spain 2018’s winner

REFEREES DESIGNATED
For the matches to be played in this event, are designated the following European International Referees.

PORTUGAL: Pedro Silva, Carlos Correia, Ricardo Leao
SPAIN: Raul Burgos
ITALY: Ulderico Barbarisi, Joseph Silecchia
FRANCE: Julien Thibaud, Stephane Rizzotti
 

AZEMAD MVP
The two “Azemad MVP” trophies for best goalkeeper and best players will be awarded at the end of the tournaments. The accredited press will determine the two winners.

LIVE COVERAGE
The WEBTV of World Skate Europe. will be broadcasted by http://europe.worldskate.tv with the portuguese voice of Josè Santos. The TV production is assigned to the crew of Hoqueipatins.pt, Pedro Cabral and Bruno Soares with their 8 cameras in entire the rink. After every match will be broadcasted live also the press conferences in the same feed of the game. The live events will be streamed also by the Portuguese Federation ( tv.fpp.pt) Spanish Federation ( feptv.es ) and Italian Federation ( hockeypista.fisrtv.it ). For Italy, matches can be viewed through the satellite channel MS Channel (FTA Hotbird 13°E) and cable tv MS Sport.
After the matches, you will find the Highlights in our WebTV and also in our new Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/EURORINKHOCKEYTV
 

SPECIAL COVERAGE FOR WSEUROPE-RINKHOCKEY WEBSITE
WSE-RH will follow with special coverage in social network and in the section of two European championships www.wseurope-rinkhockey.org/eurof and the official photos of Antonio Lopes. In our Social Networks will be added special content from the rink.

Every Match will be covered from our OFFICIAL LIVESCORING in multi-language with all the official statistics during the games.

OFFICIAL HASHTAGS -> #okeurof #okluso

STUFF FOR MEDIA
WSERH gives you the possibility to download and use some photos of each match after the first half time with royalty-free copyright and free use (Credits to “Antonio Lopes / WSE-RH”. PHOTO DRIVE -> http://bit.ly/okeurof2021-Photos 
If you need also the official highlights from the matches, we will upload them asap in our webtv (HD file)  – VIDEO DRIVE -> http://bit.ly/okeurof2021-Videos

Schedule – Pavilhao Municipal de Luso
Monday 11th October 2021 (local time: Greenwich time, +1 Central Europe Time)
1st matchday
h 17:30 – France x Italy
h 19:30 – Opening Ceremony
h 20:30 – Portugal x England

Tuesday 12th October 2021 (local time: Greenwich time, +1 Central Europe Time)
2nd matchday
h 17:30 – Spain x Italy
h 20:00 – France x Portugal

Wednesday 13th October 2021 (local time: Greenwich time, +1 Central Europe Time)
3rd matchday
h 17:30 – Spain x England
h 20:00 – Portugal x Italy

Thursday 14th October 2021 (local time: Greenwich time, +1 Central Europe Time)
4th matchday
h 17:30 – France x England
h 20:00 – Portugal x Spain

Friday 15th October 2021 (local time: Greenwich time, +1 Central Europe Time)
5th matchday
h 17:30 – Spain x France
h 20:00 – Italy x England

Saturday 16th October 2021 (local time: Greenwich time, +1 Central Europe Time)
Final day
h 17:30 – Final 3rd-4th place
h 20:00 – Final 1st-2nd place
 

HISTORY EURO FEMALE
YEAR    WINNER
1991    ITALY
1993    ITALY
1995    SPAIN
1997    PORTUGAL
1999    PORTUGAL
2001    PORTUGAL
2003    GERMANY
2005    FRANCE
2007    GERMANY
2009    SPAIN
2011    SPAIN
2013    SPAIN
2015    SPAIN
2018    SPAIN
 

RECORDS
SPAIN: 6 – last: 2018
PORTUGAL: 3 – last: 2001
ITALY: 2 – last: 1993
GERMANY: 2 – last: 2007
FRANCE: 1 – last: 2005