 Also, hosting rights of the 2022 European Universities Games were awarded to Łódź, Poland, and to the cities of Debrecen and Miskolc in Hungary for the 2024 Games .In 2019, The European Universities Championships were organised in 21 different sports in 14 different host cities, attracting 5242 participants in total from 570 universities – a EUSA record.Four sports were included in the official programme for the first time including Beach Handball, Kickboxing, Orienteering and Water Polo.