Organised by the International University Sports Federation (FISU), the upcoming summer editions of the FISU World University Games will be Chungcheong 2027 and North Carolina 2029.
The prestigious international university multi-sport Games provide a platform for talented students to compete alongside competitors from countries all around the world. FISU World University Games are widely recognised as a unique performance environment and as a significant formative development opportunity for both athletes and support staff.
The most recent edition of the FISU Summer World University Games took place in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany in 2025. GB Students had an extremely successful Games, winning 18 medals in total. Every medal moment can be read about here.
Chungcheong 2027
The FISU Executive Committee met across the weekend of the 11-12 November 2022 in Brussels, the main purpose to select the region or city that will organise the 2027 FISU World University Games Summer.
The Executive Committee of FISU announced that the hosts of the summer edition of the FISU World University Games in 2027 will be Chungcheong, Korea.
The Chungcheong 2027 FISU World University Games will be held for 18 sports in 31 venues across four cities and provinces in Chungcheong: Daejeon, Sejong, Chungbuk, and Chungnam.
The following fifteen sports are part of the fixed programme of the summer edition of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games: badminton, basketball, archery, fencing, apparatus gymnastics, judo, athletics, rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, water polo and water diving. The optional sports included will be rowing, beach volleyball and golf.
North Carolina 2029
The 2029 FISU World University Games is going to be held in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina, USA.
North Carolina mounted a strong bid for the 2027 World University Games, which were awarded to Chungcheong Megacity in South Korea in November. The FISU Summer World University Games have only been held once previously in the United States in 1993 in Buffalo, New York
The following fifteen sports are part of the fixed programme of the summer edition of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games: badminton, basketball, archery, fencing, apparatus gymnastics, judo, athletics, rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, water polo and water diving. The optional sports included will be baseball, softball, rugby, football.
