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The European Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or Europe GAA is one of the boards of the GAA outside Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, and is responsible for organizaning Gaelic Games in continental Europe

Continental Europe

Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands....

. The board is responsible for the European Gaelic football

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

, Hurling

Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

, Camogie

Camogie

Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....

and Ladies' Gaelic football

Ladies' Gaelic football

Ladies' Gaelic football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association...

teams.

Competitions format

With Europe County comprising all of continental Europe with great distances between each team, the County Board adopted a system of rounds in the form of tournaments so that every team has the same chance to win the championship. Every year six to eight rounds are played to determine the new champion.
A tournament is competed in a single day with pool stages or in a round-robin format leading to a final. Semi-finals and ranking matches can be played if needed to determine a ranking of every team present on the day. Each team gains a number of points depending on its ranking at each tournament (25 points for the winner, 20 points for the runner-up, etc.). After each tournament points gained are added to determine the championship winner at the end of the season.

Gaelic football

Since 2006, the Men's competition has been played on a regional basis. County Europe is divided into 5 regions: Benelux, East and Central, Iberia, North West and Scandinavia. From February to August, each team plays in its regional competition with the top two teams qualifying for the European Championship. All other teams go on to play the European Shield. Championship and Shield are competed from September to November.

Championship

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2010 European Gaelic Football Championship 2010 The European Gaelic Football Championship 2010 is the 2010 season of the tournament, which includes European teams other than those from Ireland and Britain. The Championship follows two phases. During the first part of the year teams compete within their own regions in a series of four to five...	Den Haag	Paris Gaels
2009	Den Haag	Paris Gaels
2008	Brussels Belgium	Paris Gaels
2007	GSC Luxembourg
2006	Den Haag
2005	Paris Gaels
2004	Munich Colmcilles
2003	Paris Gaels
2002	Den Haag
2001	Paris Gaels

Shield

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2010 European Gaelic Football Championship 2010 The European Gaelic Football Championship 2010 is the 2010 season of the tournament, which includes European teams other than those from Ireland and Britain. The Championship follows two phases. During the first part of the year teams compete within their own regions in a series of four to five...	Copenhagen	Frankfurt Sarsfields
2009	Copenhagen	Frankfurt Sarsfields
2008	Copenhagen
2007	Ar Gwazi Gouez (Rennes)
2006	Maastricht Gaels

Past winners

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2010	Brussels Belgium
2009	Brussels Belgium	Paris Gaels
2008	Brussels Belgium
2007	Paris Gaels
2006	GSC Luxembourg
2005	Holland
2004	GSC Luxembourg
2003	GSC Luxembourg
2002	GSC Luxembourg
2001	Brussels Belgium

Past winners

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2011	Inneoin Zurich	Den Haag
2010	Belgium GAA	GSC Luxembourg
2009	Belgium GAA	GSC Luxembourg
2008	GSC Luxembourg	Brussels GAA
2007	Den Haag	GSC Luxembourg
2006	Inneoin Zurich	Brussels GAA
2005	Inneoin Zurich	Munich Colmcilles
2004	Inneoin Zurich	Munich Colmcilles
2003	Den Haag	Inneoin Zurich
2002	Den Haag	Inneoin Zurich

Past winners

Year	Winners	Runners-up
2011	Belgium GAA
2010	Belgium GAA	GSC Luxembourg
2009	GSC Luxembourg
2008	GSC Luxembourg

List of Clubs

As of 2007:

Austria: Vienna Gaels (www.gaavienna.at)
Belgium: Belgium GAA asbl (www.hurling.be www.belgiumgaa.com) (ex Brussels GAA), EC Gaelic Club of Brussels (www.playgaa.be).
Denmark: Copenhagen GFC
Finland: Northern Gaels HC
France: Paris Gaels (Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

), Lutetia Celtiques (Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

), Ar Gwazi Gouez (Rennes
Rennes
Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...

), Entente gaélique de Haute-Bretagne (Liffré
Liffré
Liffré is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in north-western France.-Demographics:Inhabitants of Liffré are called in French Liffréens.-References:* -External links:* *...

), Gaelic Football Bro-Leon (Brest
Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...

), NEC Football Gaélique (Nantes
Nantes
Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....

), Gwenrann football gaélique (Guérande
Guérande
The medieval town of Guérande is located in the département of Loire-Atlantique in western France.The inhabitants are so called Guérandais, for men, and Guérandaise, for women....

), Gwened Football Gaélique (Vannes
Vannes
Vannes is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It was founded over 2000 years ago.-Geography:Vannes is located on the Gulf of Morbihan at the mouth of two rivers, the Marle and the Vincin. It is around 100 km northwest of Nantes and 450 km south west...

), Dogues Gaelic Football Club (Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine.-Demographics:The population can increase to up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season...

), Gaelic football Bro Sant-Brieg (St Brieuc), Tolosa Despòrt Gaelic (Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

), Lugdunum CLG (Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

), Dragons Eire'Lempdais (Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...

), Gaelic Football Club Niort, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand
Guernsey/Jersey: Guernsey Gaels, Jersey GAA
Germany:Frankfurt Sarsfields (www.frankfurtsarsfields.com), Na Fianna (Bremen), München Colmcilles, Nordrhein Westfalen Exiles, St. Kilians (Würzburg)
Hungary: Budapest Rangers
Luxembourg: Luxembourg Gaelic Sports Club (www.LuxGAA.lu)
Netherlands: Amsterdam GAC (www.amsterdamgac.nl), Den Haag GAA (http://www.denhaaggaa.com), St. Martin's (Groningen), Maastricht Gaels
Norway: Oslo (www.oslogaa.com)
Spain: Barcelona Gaels, Costa Gaels (Marbella), Éire Óg Sevilla, Madrid Harps, Naomh Fermin (Pamplona), Valencia GAA, A Coruña Fillos de Breogán
Sweden: Gothenburg, Malmö, Sweden
Switzerland: Inneoin Zurich HC

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