Poland won the 15th Pandanet European Team Championship
Four best teams of league A – Ukraine, France, Czechia, Poland – fought for medals face to face at Finals, held on 28-29 July 2025 during the European Go Congress in Warsaw.
After the first two rounds everything was still open, as 3 matches ended in a draw, only Poland could beat France 3-1. However round 3 finished in surprising results, Poland beat Czechia 4-0 and Ukraine beat France 4-0.
The team of Poland won the 15th Pandanet European Team Championship, congratulations.
Ukraine wins the PGETC Finals!
The Team of Ukraine is the new PGETC Champion! Congratulations!
After defeating Germany 4-0 in the first round, they made a 2-2 tie against France, then beat Czechia 3-1.
France takes the second place, and Czechia the third. Germany is fourth.
The matches were very thrilling, with a lot of close games or on-the-edge battles.
Games were reviewed live by Motoki Noguchi 7d (replay available here)
Thank you for following and see you for the next season!
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Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals at EGC 2026 in Ankara!
The Finals of the PGETC season 2025/2026 start on August 3rd in Ankara, Türkiye, at the European Go Congress 2026.
The finals sees the best teams of the season fighting each other over 3 rounds, in the middle of the biggest European Go event. Exciting!
The games will be broadcast on IGS, so you can follow the action live.
The main referee during the tournament will be Manja Marz 4d (EGF president and PGETC project leader).
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The first round will take place in the morning at 10:00 CEST (11:00 local time).
Czechia will face France, Germany will face Ukraine.
The second round will start at 15:00 CEST (16:00 local time), with Czechia playing Germany, and Ukraine playing France.
The third and last round will start on the next day, August 4th, at 15:00 CEST (16:00 local time). Czechia will play against Ukraine, France will play against Germany.
The top boards will be reviewed in English by Mr Motoki Noguchi 7d on the Twitch channel of the EGF (https://twitch.tv/europeangofederation), half an hour after the actual start.
Good games to all the participants and followers!
The 16th PGETC almost finished, live Finals of A-league will be played in Ankara
The online 16th season of Pandanet European Team Championship, consisting of 4 leagues A, B, C, D, is finished. The best 4 teams of A-league will play the Finals during the European Go Congress in Ankara on 3-4 August 2026.
The online part was won by Czechia (the captain Lukas Podpera scored 8-1 on the board 1) followed by Ukraine, France and Germany. Last year´s champion Poland surprisingly finished 5th and can not defend the title.
Up and down moves between leagues: Italy is replaced by The Netherlands in A league
Austria and Switzerland leave B-league and are replaced by Serbia and Slovakia
Norway and Portugal leave C-league, Greece and Kazakhstan will replace them.
16th Pandanet Go European Team Championship starting on October 14, 2025
Already 16th season of great team matches is starting. We have again 4 leagues, total number of national teams is 35, leagues A and B have 10 teams each, league C 8 teams and league D has 7 teams.
League A
Poland, Ukraine, Czechia, France, Israel, Hungary, Turkey, Romania, Italy and Germany
League B
Sweden, Netherlands, Croatia, Belgium, United Kingdom, Austria, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa and Ireland
League C
Lithuania, Serbia, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal and Norway
League D
Kazakhstan, Georgia, Greece, Cyprus, Iceland, Morocco and Denmark
The 15th PGETC almost finished, relegation matches on June 10
The online part of 15th season of PGETC is almost over. Four best teams of league A – Ukraine, France, Czechia, Poland – will fight for the medals face to face at Finals held in Warsaw, 28-29 July.
The relegation matches held online on June 10 will decide which teams will keep their league or drop down or advance to higher league. Team consists of 5 players to avoid a draw.
League A-B : Germany – Netherlands
League B-C : Serbia – Ireland
League C-D : Kazakhstan – Portugal