2025-07-16
FISU World University Games
16 – 27 July 2025
2025-07-16
16 – 27 July 2025
In 2025, the world will come together in the Rhine-Ruhr region to celebrate sport, science and culture. We are looking forward to great sports, enthusiastic visitors, full sports facilities and many new friendships. We are looking forward to seeing you!
16
Jul
27
Jul
12
DAYS
approx.
10.000
ATHLETES & OFFICIALS
up to
170
COUNTRIES
18
SPORTS
22
VENUES
This is where standards are set. The densest university landscape in Europe meets the most sports clubs in Germany in an exceptionally sports-mad region. In short: The perfect place for the FISU WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES!
The Rhine-Ruhr Region
The Rhine-Ruhr region invites you to an international sports spectacle. Athletes will compete for twelve days in 18 sports in 5 cities. Where can you watch and celebrate your favorite sport? Click through and find out more.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Mülheim an der Ruhr
Düsseldorf
Essen
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Essen
Düsseldorf
Essen
Bochum
Essen
Duisburg
Düsseldorf
Essen
Essen
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Duisburg
Essen
An exceptional team for an extraordinary event:
There is a place for you in the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 family.
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delegationservices@rhineruhr2025.comContact for inclusion topics
inclusion@rhineruhr2025.comContact for education and science initiatives
education@rhineruhr2025.comcontact for sponsorship inquiries
sponsoring@rhineruhr2025.com3 July 2024 – Düsseldorf
The inaugural Delegation Webinar for the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games Summer took place on 1 July 2024. This key event was attended by delegations from all continents and offered essential information to aid in their preparations.
2 July 2024 – Düsseldorf
It can test skills you never knew you had, open doors to a career you did not think possible, and mould new friendships from all over the world. For 22-year-old German student Annika Saunus, the FISU Young Reporters Programme has been all this, and more. Even if, by her own admission, she was sceptical at first.
23 June 2024 – Düsseldorf
‘Move, learn and discover’: if ever an athlete has embodied the theme of Olympic Day, it is Germany’s Sarah Voss. The champion gymnast is combining her work behind-the-scenes of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games with her online studies in sports management, while hoping to find herself in the women’s all-around final at the Olympic Games in Paris next month.
18 June 2024 – Düsseldorf
The Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games are delighted to announce the signing of a landmark deal with internationally renowned clothing supplier Macron, who will now set to work on designing and producing a collection unique to the world's largest multi-sport event in 2025.
11 June 2024 – Düsseldorf
Volunteers are essential to the successful organisation of major sporting events. They are particularly important for the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games, where the Organising Committee is currently looking for a total of 12,000 volunteers. All important information about volunteering at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games is now available in an information brochure.
10 June 2024 – Düsseldorf
The Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games are excited to announce that the first National University Sports Federations (NUSF) delegation webinar will take place on Monday, 1 July 2024 at 13:00 CET. This informative session will be hosted via Zoom and invite representatives from delegations around the world to come together and hear an overview of the upcoming FISU Summer Games.
4 June 2024 – Düsseldorf
The Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games will pave the way for a more sustainable future in and through sport. Plans and objectives for this endeavour are now available in a pre-Games paper which underscores how sustainability has not only become a key concept in the planning of multi-sport events but has also been integrated into their operation. The paper sets the benchmark for the FISU World University Games. There has never been such an elaborate concept and it will set new standards for international university sport.
28 May 2024 – Düsseldorf
The Board of Trustees of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games met on 21 May 2024 in Düsseldorf. With Nancy Faeser, Federal Minister of the Interior and Andrea Milz, State Secretary for Sport and Volunteering of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Board of Trustees includes high-ranking representatives of the federal and state governments as well as representatives of the local authorities as sponsors. The honorary committee is completed by prominent personalities from the fields of sport, science, university sport, culture, business and the media. At the first constituent meeting, the members of the Board of Trustees elected Karla Borger as Chair and Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Risch as Vice-Chair.
13 May 2024 – Köln
The Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games is about so much more than 12 days of top-class sporting action and cultural highlights. With a key supplementary goal of promoting education and science in the region and beyond, members of the Organising Committee have been hard at work building links with the local university landscape, delivering lectures and even entire seminars.
6 May 2024 – Düsseldorf
At 18:07 local time on 6 May 1954, a student-athlete from Great Britain completed a feat still regarded as one of the finest ever in the history of track and field. The first person in the world to run a mile in under four minutes, Roger Bannister did it on a cinder track at his own university in Oxford, while wearing heavy spikes and in conditions more suited to sailing than running.
3 May 2024 – Düsseldorf
The Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games are shaping up to be a great success according to a Dutch delegation that visited the Organising Committee in Germany last week.
30 April 2024 – Düsseldorf
The winning team of the Torch Design Competition for the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games has been announced! Although it would be more accurate to say: ‘The winning teams are announced!’ That’s because after much deliberation, a high-profile jury has been unable to separate the stunning designs put forward by students Christian and Julia Stratmann, and Fabian Arnold and Victor Gorelik.
22 April 2024 – Düsseldorf
Thousands of student-athletes in Germany are mobilising for a year-long sporting dress rehearsal before the world’s best take to the stage at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games.
18 April 2024 – Düsseldorf
Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games is pleased to announce that the Spring Heads of Delegation Meeting (Spring HOD Meeting) for representatives of the National University Sports Federations attending the FISU Games Summer will take place from 6 to 11 April 2025, including travel days.
15 April 2024 – Düsseldorf
Would you like to experience a top-class beach volleyball final courtside? See the German national basketball team close-up, watch a 100 m athletics final live, or simply enjoy a mix of 18 sports in one region? This unique opportunity will be available to you at the largest multi-sport event in the world next year, and the biggest held in Germany since the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Get closer to the action and enjoy unique experiences: join us for the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games Summer.