European Quadball Cup

The European Quadball Cup, also known as EQC and formerly as the European Quidditch Championship, is the culminating championship tournament for the sport of quadball in Europe. It began to be legitimised in 2014 when the International Quadball Association became an international federation for quadball. The first tournament took place in 2012 in France as quidditch began to develop across Europe. Today, the tournament is the highest level of championship in Europe besides the European Games with league-level tournaments being the qualifying competitions. In 2026, Division 1 of EQC was held in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany, where the Ghent Gargoyles Quadball club won the championship for the first time in their history. Antwerp QC remain the most successful team in the tournaments history with 4 championships and 2 second places.

European Quadball Cup

Organiser(s)	Quadball Europe European Quidditch Cup vzw
Founded	2012 (2012)
Region	Europe
Teams	32 for D1 24 for D2
Current champions	Ghent Gargoyles Quadball club (1st title)
Most championships	Antwerp QC (4 titles)
Website	https://www.quidditcheurope.org/events/eqc

History

Originally held in Lesparre-Médoc, France, EQC has since grown into the largest quadball tournament in Europe. EQC 2014 saw teams from almost more countries than the 2014 Global Games, and EQC 2015 received teams from at least twelve different quadball-playing nations.

Qualification

EQC 2015 saw a different form of qualification than its predecessors that introduced a team limit to the tournament as well as qualification guidelines. The Quadball Europe committee has planned to change the qualification format for EQC 2016 and onward. Currently, the committee for EQC is distributing bids to individual nations based on discussions with NGBs' representatives and team pre-registration. It is for each national governing body of quadball to determine how individual bids will be partitioned to teams under their jurisdiction.

Going forward starting with the 2018–19 season, the European Quadball Cup is held in two divisions, Division 1 and Division 2, in order to facilitate both highly competitive gameplay at the top end and the ever-growing player base in Europe overall.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there was no event in 2020.

Hosts

Lesparre-Médoc

Brussels

Oxford

Gallipoli

Mechelen

Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm

Harelbeke (Div 1)

Warsaw (Div 2)

Limerick (Div 1)

Brescia (Div 2)

Heidelberg (Div 1)

Golbey (Div 2)

Salou (Div 1 & 2)

Locations of the European Quadball Cups

EQC 2018 was held in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany.

2017's edition of the tournament was held in the Belgian city of Mechelen after Gallipoli 2016.

EQC 2015 was being hosted by Oxford University's quadball club and QuidditchUK. EQC 2014 was hosted by the then-Belgium Muggle Quidditch (current: Belgian Quadball Federation) and the Brussels Qwaffles. The first EQC was hosted by the then-French Quidditch Association (current: Fédération du Quadball Français).

Selection procedures

Interested teams or NGBs submit a bid proposal outlining their location, the cost and the benefits attached to their bid to a sub-committee composed of Quadball Europe members. The sub-committee then chooses the bid and selects from an applicant pool the tournament director.

Past champions of Division 1

Year	Host		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams
2012	Lesparre-Médoc		Paris Phénix	50*–20	Paris Frog		Milano Meneghins	120*–70	Anthéna Lesparre		6
2014	Brussels		Radcliffe Chimeras	100*–30	Paris Phénix		Brussels Qwaffles	50*–20	Lunatica QC		12
2015	Oxford		Paris Titans	150*–80	Radcliffe Chimeras		Not played Southampton QC1 vs. Nottingham Nightmares				32
2016	Gallipoli		Paris Titans	120*–60	Antwerp QC		Not played METU Unicorns vs. Nottingham Nightmares				40
2017	Mechelen		Antwerp QC	120*–110	METU Unicorns		Werewolves of London	80*–60	NTNUI Rumpeldunk		32
2018	Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm		Paris Titans	130*–70	Antwerp QC		METU Unicorns	160°*–140*°	Velociraptors QC		32
2019	Harelbeke		Paris Titans	170*–90	METU Unicorns		Werewolves of London	170*–80	ODTU Hippogriffs		32
2022	Limerick		Werewolves of London	100*–60	DNA Quidditch		Paris Titans	140*–50	Paris Frog		32
2023	Heidelberg		Antwerp QC	130*–30	Werewolves of London		Ruhr Phoenix	140*–70	Braunschweiger Broomicorns		32
2024	Salou		Antwerp QC	150*–30	Ruhr Phoenix		London QC	120*–100	Paris Titans		32
2025	Salou		Antwerp QC	150–110*	Ruhr Phoenix		Braunschweiger Broomicorns	220*–130	Paris Titans		30
2026	Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm		Ghent Gargoyles Quadball	130*–90*	Ruhr Phoenix		Braunschweiger Broomicorns	180–130*	Rheinos Bonn		24

Most successful teams

Rank	Team	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Total
1	Antwerp QC	4	2	0	6
2	Paris Titans	4	0	1	5
3	Werewolves of London	1	1	2	4
4	Paris Phénix	1	1	0	2
	Radcliffe Chimeras	1	1	0	2
6	Ghent Gargoyles Quadball Club	1	0	0	1
7	Ruhr Phoenix	0	3	1	4
8	METU Unicorns	0	2	2	4
9	Paris Frog	0	1	0	1
	DNA Quidditch	0	1	0	1
10	Nottingham Nightmares	0	0	2	2
	Braunschweiger Broomicorns	0	0	2	2

Most successful Nations

Rank	Team	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Total
1	France	5	2	1	8
	Belgium	5	2	1	8
3	United Kingdom	2	2	6	10
4	Germany	0	3	3	6
5	Turkey	0	2	2	4
5	Italy	0	1	1	2

Past champions of Division 2

Year	Host		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams
2019	Warsaw		SCC Berlin Bluecaps	120*–50	LSV Looping Lux Leipzig		Vienna Vanguards	190°°°–180*°°	Augsburg Owls		16
2022	Brescia		Dementores A Coruña	200*–130	Bielefelder Basilisken		Southsea Quidditch	120–90*	Kraków Dragons		24
2023	Golbey		Sevilla Warriors QT	160*–90	Münster Marauders		Vienna Vanguards	110*–40	Darmstadt Athenas		24
2024	Salou		Münster Marauders	140*–120	Barcelona Eagles QT		Olympiens Q	90*–0	Cologne Cannons		24
2025	Salou		Hacettepe Pegasus	140–110*	Augsburg Owls		Bombarda Brixia QC	120*–100	Werewolves of London		23

Most successful teams

Rank	Team	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Total
1	Münster Marauders	1	1	0	2
2	SCC Berlin Bluecaps	1	0	0	1
	Dementores A Coruña
	Sevilla Warriors QT
	Hacettepe Pegasus
3	LSV Looping Lux Leipzig	0	1	0	1
	Bielefelder Basilisken
	Barcelona Eagles
	Augsburg Owls
4	Vienna Vanguards	0	0	2	2
5	Southsea Quidditch	0	0	1	1
	Olympiens Q
	Bombarda Brixia QC

Most successful Nations

Rank	Team	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Total
1	Germany	2	4	0	6
2	Spain	2	0	0	2
3	Turkey	1	0	0	1
4	Catalonia	0	1	0	1
5	Austria	0	0	2	2
6	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1

See also

• International Quidditch Association
• Muggle quidditch
• British Quidditch Cup

External links

• Quidditch Europe