On June 16th 1962, in Basel (Switzerland), during the first International Company Sport Conference, representatives from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Luxemburg, Sweden and Switzerland decided to found the European Federation for Company Sport. Since this 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 (1962) to actual 35 (2013) european countries including Israel.
The most important item for EFCS is to strengthen human and cultural contacts across national borders through sport. A hell of a task because of the diversity of the company sport approach in each country. The main instruments to realize this objective 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 aspect and on youngsters, women, elderly people and persons with handicap, too.
Summer Sport Games
The 1st European Company Sport Games were held in 1977 in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) with in total 8 countries and 579 sportsmen and women. The Games have grown dramatically and now the Games 2013 in Prague (Czech Republic) were held with in total 26 countries and 7416 sportsmen and women in 25 different sports.
Winter Sport Games
The 1st European Winter Sport Games were held in 1990 in Innsbruck (Austria) with in total 5 countries and 520 sportsmen and women. 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 sportsmen and women in 9 different sports.
