Spectacular and audience-friendly orienteering experiences await when the 2025 European Orienteering Championships take place in Belgium from Wednesday to Sunday this week.
Whether you follow the competitions, which also count towards the 2025 Orienteering World Cup, at the arenas in Hasselt, Geel and Lier or from home, you are guaranteed good entertainment.
Follow from arenas
If you follow the competitions from Belgium to feel the excitement from the arenas, it is easy to get back and forth between the cities.
The spectator races at the EOC Tour take place in the same cities, so you can get the feeling of competing in similar terrain as the world’s best orienteers.
Find all the information in the EOC 2025 homepage
Follow from home
You can follow all three final races in high quality broadcasts at IOF TV and a number of other TV providers.
In IOF TV, Katherine Bett and Jonas Merz will guide you through the races in English commentary, while Philipp Sauter and Lukas Deininger are your hosts in the German stream.
Go to IOF TV – Tickets are 9/25 EUR for one/all race day(s)
In addition, the championship races will be shown in Sweden (SVT), Norway (NRK), Finland (YLE), Czechia (CzTV) and France (TV8 Mont Blanc).
Norwegian customers can also follow the races on langrenn.com.
At the same time, viewers in Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and host nation Belgium have free access to Eurovision Sport, where the broadcasts are available.
Please note that the quarter finals of Friday’s Knock-Out Sprint will be shown exclusively on IOF TV and Eurovision Sport.
As always, IOF LIVE is your friend, when it comes to start lists, live results and GPS-tracking.
Social media
EOC 2025 Facebook – EOC 2025 Instagram
EOC 2025 programme
All times: CEST (UTC +2)
Wednesday, August 27
Sprint Relay
18:50 – 20:20 TV Broadcast
19:00 Sprint Relay start
Thursday, August 28
KO Sprint Qualification
14:00 First start M
15:00 First start W
16:30 Heat selection
Friday, August 29
KO Sprint Finals
13:20 – 14:40 QF broadcast (exclusively for IOF TV and Eurovision Sport)
13:25 QF first start
15:30 – 17:30 TV Broadcast
15:40 SF first start
17:00 Finals start
Sunday, August 31
Sprint
9:30 Qualification, First start Men
10:35 Qualification, First start Women
15:15 Final, First start Men
15:30 – 18:00 TV Broadcast
16:30 Final, First start Women