It’s going to be a brilliant beach volleyball season in Europe!
CEV aka The European Volleyball Federation has released its 2013 calendar with CEV Beach Volleyball European Championship as the major major major event of the year.
2013 CEV Tournaments:
Satellite Tournament
April 2nd – 6th
Antalya, Turkey
Elite beach volleyball returns back to Turkey after this country – and namely the neighboring city of Alanya – had played host in June 2012 to the very last stage of the inaugural Continental Cup where the winners eventually qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London. This testifies the increasing popularity of the sport in one of the world’s fastest growing economies where beach volleyball enjoys the surplus of excellent weather and climate conditions almost all year round.
CEV Beach Volleyball European Championship Final
Preliminary Round/s
May 29th -June 2nd
Baden, Austria
Masters Only Men’s Tournament
July 16th – 20th
Novi Sad, Serbia
Finals
July 30th -August 4th
Klagenfurt, Austria
European Open Tournaments
June 5th – 9th
Montpellier, France
August 7th -11th
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
U18, U20 and U22 CEV European Championships
August 2013
Molodechno, Belarus
Vilnius, Lithuania
Varna, Bulgaria Vilnius (LTU) and Varna (BUL)
CEV Youth Continental Cup Final
TBD
(source: cev.lu/ image: Aleksandrs Samoilovs)