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BEC is excited to embark on the new season of 2018! (Photo: Badminton Europe/Mark Phelan)
Action-packed to the finish
Date: 1/5/2018 8:47 AM
Published by : Emma Lollike
The last six months of 2018 will hold the BWF World Championships in the beginning and the first stage of the 2019 European Mixed Team Championships in the end. 

The last continental championship of the year, the 2018 European Senior Championships, will be organized in September finishing off a busy year of BEC events. Read the second part of our 2018 preview and finalize your personal overview of the new season.

JULY
The second level 2 tournament of the year will be organized in Indonesia in the beginning of July. BCA Indonesia Open, from 3-8 July, will function as warm-up to the world championships for the world’s best. 

The European Universities Games Coimbra 2018 will be Europe’s largest university sport event of the year, and the largest multisport event ever organized in Portugal. EUSA (European University Sports Association) expects 4,000 participants from Europe’s leading sport universities to compete in 13 sports from 15-28 July.

BWF’s 2018 World Championships starts up on 30 July and ends on 5 August. Europe’s reigning men’s singles champion Viktor Axelsen (pictured above) must travel to Nanjing, China, to defend his title. BEC hopes to see many Europeans on the podiums this time around also, like the three medals from Glasgow.

AUGUST
Spanish Open will be organized in the month of August not long after the World Championships. Pay attention to BEC’s website and social media between 28 August and 2 September, for news and content from the hosting city of Granada.

SEPTEMBER
Belarus International will function as a test event for the 2019 European Games, in Minsk. As a future series-tournament, European players will compete and help the organizers in Minsk prepare for the second edition of the games. 

On the 7th of September the 2018 European Junior Team Championships will commence. The best junior nations will compete until the 11th of September, which will also be the first day of the individual event.

11-16 September, the individual 2018 European Junior Championships will run. The Estonian capital, Tallinn was announced as hosts in July last year and will be the first to organize BEC’s junior events during September instead of April. Live stream will be available on BE.TV. from both 2018 European Junior Championships events.

September is also a busy month for the BEC Circuit. While the best European junior players compete for medals in Estonia, the European circuit continues in Leuven, Belgium. YONEX Belgian International runs from 12-15 September, where live stream also will available. 

The best of the junior players are not the only players in Europe that will compete for continental medals. The 2018 European Senior Championships will commence in Guadalajara, Spain, during the same month and will run from 24-30 September. 

From 26-29 September, the third BEC Circuit will be organized in Brno, Czech Republic. The LI-NING Czech Open will also provide live stream feed for badminton fans. All the BEC Circuit tournaments that are airing live can be found on Badminton Europe’s official YouTube, BE.TV.

Moreover, the third and final level 2 tournament of the year will be organized in Changzhou, China, during this month. China Open welcomes the top players from around the world from 18-23 September.


OCTOBER
Between 7-12 October, 3998 athletes will compete at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. Badminton will be one of the 32 sports included at the big event in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a total of 206 countries from around the world will participate.

European badminton fans can like in the previous years, look forward to the month of October. During this month no less than three graded BWF tournaments will be organized on European ground: Dutch Open, DANISA Denmark Open and YONEX French Open.

DANISA Denmark Open will be organized from 16-21 October simultaneously with Denmark Para-Badminton International 2018. In the city of Odense, Badminton Denmark have many badminton activities and events during that week in October.

YONEX French Open is known and loved for its great atmosphere from the crowd and will start the following week, from 23-28 October in the French capital.

Bitburger Masters will be organized in Saarbrucken, Germany, the following week. A BWF level 6 tournament from 30 October-4 November.

NOVEMBER
BWF European Para-Badminton Championships will be organized in Rodez, France, by BWF and FFBad (The French Badminton Federation). The best European para-players will compete from 30 October to 4 November.

The best junior players from around the world will travel to Toronto, Canada, to compete for at the 2018 World Junior Mixed Team Championships from 5-10 November and the 2018 World Junior Championships from 12-18 November.

43th YONEX Hungarian International, be the next ‘stops’ in the BEC Circuit. BEC will provide live streaming from the Norwegian international challenge in Sandefjord.

From the 20-25 November, Scotland will host a BWF level 6 tournament. The former Grand Prix-tournament was known as Scottish Open and will be the last graded BWF tournament hosted in Europe in the year of 2018.

DECEMBER
In the last month of the year, BEC has still to announce the final stops of the BEC Circuit. More information will follow, and we encourage players to keep an eye on our calendar for updates to come.

In 2015, a new qualification concept was introduced for the European Mixed Team Championships. The championship is divided into two stages, where the first stage takes place in December in the year before the final stage. Which means that the 2019 European Mixed Team Championships first stage will take place December in 2018.

Six groups of teams will be announced, and in these six groups the teams will compete to qualify for the final stage in 2019. Only the six no 1’s from each group will make the qualification, and the six group plays will take simultaneously from 7-9 December, in six different locations around Europe. 

Read the first part of the 2018 preview: Six busy months ahead

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