On 16th June 1962, in Basel (Switzerland), during the first International Company Sport Conference, representatives of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland , Luxemburg, Sweden and Switzerland decided to found the European Federation for Company Sport. Since that date, EFCS has been developping as the most important player in Europe in the field of Company Sports. The number of member countries have been increasing from 8, in 1962, to actual 38 countries, among those 22 are EU member states.
The most important goal for EFCS is to strengthen human and cultural contacts across national borders through sport. A very hard task because of the diversity of the company sport approach in each country. The main instruments to meet this goal were and still are the summer and winter European company sport games and the EFCS labelled events. In the last decade, new challenges for our federation have been arised. Now, we put our focus on the health and movement aspects and on youngsters, women, elderly people and people with handicap, too.
Summer Sport Games
The first European Company Sport Games were held in 1977 in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) with in total 8 countries and 579 athletes. The Games have grown dramatically, and the latest Games, organised in Riccione (Italy) in 2015, were held with in total 26 countries and 7416 athletes competing in 25 different sports.
Winter Sport Games
The first European Winter Sport Games were held in 1990 in Innsbruck (Austria) with in total 5 countries and 520 athletes. The Winter Games have also grown and during our last Games 2012 in Falun (Sweden) we welcomed in total 8 of our member countries and 1100 athletes competing in 9 different sports. Also in the latest edition held in Les Saisies (France) in 2014, many athletes participated in the event.
