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From Europe’s oldest national association to scenes still finding their feet. Follow The Lacrosse covers European lacrosse nation by nation: the history, the clubs, the players and the stories that make each scene worth knowing.

35 nations, three tiers

The 35 ELF member nations, classified by FTL according to competitive history, institutional depth and format maturity. Each one has its own file.

Armenia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
  • Tier 1
  • Tier 2
  • Tier 3

Choose a country to open its file.

Tier 1, elite and founding nations

Tier 2, growth nations and competitive powers

Tier 3, emerging nations

FTL Scene Radar

European lacrosse moves at 35 different speeds. Here is how FTL reads the momentum right now.

ENGHot right now

England

European Box champions in 2022, after an 11–8 final against Germany, and fourth at the 2024 World Championship, the best European side. Fourth in Prague in 2026, after a one-goal semi-final loss to Finland. The domestic scene keeps producing internationally competitive players.

BoxFieldEngland Lacrosse FRABuilding quietly

France

From one club in 2006 to 12 in 2026. A championship relaunched. A Héritage team for the diaspora. France is assembling infrastructure without headlines.

FieldSixesBoxAFL NEDSixes momentum

Netherlands

EuroLax Sixes Cup winners. ELF Championship Silver in 2008. NLB was building Sixes infrastructure before the Olympic announcement made it a continental priority. Watch the Dutch in the next qualification cycle.

SixesFieldNLB CZEBox stronghold

Czech Republic

Prague hosts the Aleš Hřebeský Memorial every year, the only European Box tournament that draws North American club teams. The Czech scene does not wait for outside validation. The outside comes to Prague.

BoxFieldCLU GERChampions pedigree

Germany

ELF founding member (1995). ELF Championship Gold in 2001, beating England 16–8 in the final. Three Silver medals (1999, 2000, 2004). DLaxV has been building a full lacrosse infrastructure since the early 1990s, Field and Box both.

FieldBoxDLaxV ESPWorth watching

Spain

Barcelona is building something real. Host of the 2026 European Sixes Championships, young, and lined up with the 2028 Olympic cycle. Spain is not yet a top-10 European scene, but it is moving faster than most people have noticed.

SixesFieldAEL ITAELF finalist

Italy

ELF Championship Silver in 2025, after a 9–8 loss to Israel in the final. 8 active clubs. A structured youth pathway. FIGL was founded in 2007 and the results are starting to show.

FieldSixesFIGL SWEFounding depth

Sweden

Founding ELF member in 1995. Thirty years of consistent national participation, university-rooted, now lining up a Sixes programme with the Olympic cycle.

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The Sixes window before 2028

The scenes that commit to Sixes before Los Angeles 2028 will shape European lacrosse for the decade after it. The Netherlands and Spain are best placed: NLB won the EuroLax Sixes Cup, and Spain hosts the 2026 European Sixes Championships in Salou.

Also with a full profile

DEN

Denmark

ELF founding member (1995). A scene built on survival and resilience, and the first national programme in Europe with a New Zealand-born coach.

FieldSixesDLF POL

Poland

Host of the 2022 European Championship and the 2025 World Championship (24 nations). Poland is building the infrastructure of a future top-tier scene.

FieldSixesPFL SUI

Switzerland

13 clubs across Zurich, Geneva and beyond. Swisslax has built a rare multi-format scene, Field, Sixes and Box, backed by RSI TV and an Olympic-track ambition.

FieldSixesBoxSwisslax

Signal labels are FTL’s editorial read of current momentum, not official rankings. Updated periodically.

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One email every Friday that follows the continent for you, so you know what moved beyond your own league.

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