Poland will host the 2028 European Under-13 Table Tennis Championships at the COS OPO Cetniewo complex in Władysławowo, the Polish Table Tennis Association has announced. The tournament will stage singles, mixed doubles and mixed-team events at the Władysławowo venue.
The hosting award was made by the European Table Tennis Union, according to the Polish association. It gives Poland a confirmed venue and a three-part competition programme for the under-13 European championship.
The announcement gives the Polish association another European youth event after it staged the European Cadet and Junior Championships in Gliwice in 2023. It also means Władysławowo is set to feature on the international calendar before the under-13 championships: the association said the venue will hold an event it calls the ITTF World Para Elie tournament from 23 to 27 March 2027.
A championship with a short hosting history
The European Under-13 Championships were first held in 2022, according to the Polish association. Podgorica in Montenegro staged the inaugural edition, followed by Zagreb in Croatia, Bucharest in Romania and Kosta in Sweden.
The association also said the 2026 edition would be staged in Nevşehir, Turkey. Its published sequence therefore places Poland’s 2028 award after the four completed editions it named and the scheduled 2026 tournament, while Władysławowo has been selected as the Polish venue.
That chronology provides context for the award without establishing a complete year-by-year list of editions. The association identified four previous host cities and separately named Nevşehir as the location for the 2026 event. It did not set out a host for every year through to 2028 in its announcement, but it confirmed that the championships have been contested since 2022 and that Poland will stage the 2028 edition.
The announcement lists singles, mixed doubles and mixed-team competition. The distinction is useful for readers because the award covers both individual and mixed events, rather than a singles-only youth tournament.
The programme also separates the mixed doubles event from the mixed-team tournament. The association presented them as distinct parts of the schedule alongside singles, meaning the confirmed format comprises three competition categories rather than three differently named singles events.
Poland has also hosted other continental table tennis championships, but in different age categories. The country staged the senior European Championships in Warsaw in 2021, followed by the European Cadet and Junior Championships in Gliwice in 2023. The event awarded for Władysławowo is specifically the European Under-13 Championships.
The comparison underlines the scope of the latest hosting decision. Warsaw’s 2021 event was a senior championship, while Gliwice hosted cadet and junior competition in 2023. The Władysławowo tournament will be for under-13 players, so the Polish association’s previous hosting record offers organisational context but does not make the three championships the same competition.
Władysławowo has an event before 2028
The choice of COS OPO Cetniewo places the 2028 championship at a venue already due to welcome an international table tennis event. The Polish association said the International Table Tennis Federation had awarded Poland an event which it spells “ITTF World Para Elie” at the same complex from 23 to 27 March 2027.
The dates mean that event is scheduled over five days and in the year before the European Under-13 Championships. The two tournaments are described in the announcement as an ITTF World Para Elie event and a European under-13 championship respectively, so the shared venue should not be taken to indicate a competitive connection between them.
For readers assessing the practical significance of the 2028 award, the confirmed elements are the host country, the COS OPO Cetniewo venue in Władysławowo and the three-event programme. The association’s account also places the venue on the schedule for the separate March 2027 event, before the under-13 championship arrives in 2028.
Polish Table Tennis Association president Sebastian Jagiełowicz said the association viewed the 2028 award as recognition from the European Table Tennis Union of its organisational standards, the facilities at COS OPO Cetniewo and its youth-development strategy. He said the association expected to meet organisational demands in the way it believed it had done for earlier international events.
Jagiełowicz also said a championship in Poland would offer the country’s youngest players the opportunity to compete before home supporters and build experience. That is an assessment of potential benefit rather than a prediction of medals or results.
For the 2028 championship, the confirmed practical picture is that Poland will stage singles, mixed doubles and mixed-team competition at COS OPO Cetniewo in Władysławowo. The award extends Poland’s list of hosted European table tennis events, while the same venue is scheduled to stage the event described by the association as ITTF World Para Elie in March 2027.