The date for the official Milan 2009 Press Conference has been changed. This event will now be organized on Friday 9 October 2009 at 11h30 in cooperation with the Local Organizing Committee and the Host University. The press conference will take place at "Palazzo della Regione Lombardia", via Pola 12, "Sala di rappresentanza".

The International Arbitration and Control Commission (IACC) was in Milan to inspect the offcial sport venues of the 11th IFIUS World Interuniversity Gammes, Milan 2009. The delegation was lead by Mr. F. Bottelberghs, Chairman of the IACC. During this inspection the IFIUS IACC, together with IFIUS Staff and the Local Organizing Committee, visited all the Milan 2009 venues that will be used during the Games and possible back up facilities. The fields and infrastructure all met the standards that were required by the IACC to approve the venues for play in October.

The 12th World Interuniversity Games are organized in 2010 in Valencia, Spain. The local host organization will be managed by Antonio Blasco Munoz, Professor at the Department Master Gestion Deportiva UPV, and Daniel Munoz Sirera. The host university will be the CEU Universidad Cardenal Herrera.
More news and details available soon on this website.

Although the Milan 2009 Games are approaching quickly, IFIUS is preparing the future. Negotiations with the candidates for the organization of the 12th IFIUS World Interuniversity Games in 2010 are nearly finalized and the 2010 Host City will be announced during the week of 10 May.

Additionally candidates have already presented themselves to host the World Interuniversity Games in 2011, 2012 and 2013 ensuring the continuity of the IFIUS Games.

This Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the IFIUS EC will meet at the General Secretariat in Antwerp to conclude the registration period for the Milan 2009 Games. It is already clear that for Milan 2009 the number of teams has increased strongly compared to former editions. Not only the new Golf and Pitch & Putt competition (10 teams) ensures this growth, also all the other competitions add to a total of 83 teams. Additionally, the IFIUS EC will discuss a number of informal participation requests from America, Asia, Europe and Africa, with the objectives to extend the number of participants, to increase the number of countries where the universities are located (24 at the moment) and to welcome for the first time teams from four continents.

Due to the prolongation of the registration deadline for the Milan 2009 Games until 27 March, the number of countries where the participating universities are located keeps increasing. In addition to other teams, the University of Tetova from FYR Macedonia and the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez of Chilli are now added to the list. This results in a total of 24 different nationalities. Furthermore, the Games are experiencing an increase in the number of participants with already more than 70 university teams.

The Federation is pleased with the registration figures for the Milan 2009 Games. On March 1st 2009, 65 teams already confirmed participation in the 11th World Interuniversity Games. Remarkable is the record number of 22 countries where the participating universities are located with teams from Uruguay, Panama, the United States, Bahrain, England, Qatar, France, Latvia, Slovakia, Croatia, the Russian Federation, Iran, Belgium, Romania, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Malaysia, Austria, Finland and Portugal.

But the Federation also expects a record number of participating teams as the registration period will be prolonged. This decision is based upon the fact that the official invitation for the Milan 2009 Games has only reached certain parts of the world, such as Asia and Africa, during the last couple of weeks. As a result the IFIUS Executive Committee decided to prolong the registration deadline for the Milan 2009 Games with one month to give each university in the world an equal opportunity to participate. The new final registration date has been set on 27 March 2009.

Information of the sporting venues of the 11^th IFIUS World Interuniversity Games Milan 2009 has been made available on the Milan 2009 website. Please click here for more information regarding the venues and fields.

IFIUS is currently processing and inspecting all the detailed information of the sporting venues of the 11^th IFIUS World Interuniversity Games Milan 2009. Next week, the Federation will post this information and pictures of the different venues online on the Milan website.

Currently the Federation receives daily many requests to forward the Official Invitation Brochure of the 11th World Interuniversity Games, Milan 2009. To guarantee each requesting party an optimal deliverance of the Official Milan 2009 brochure, IFIUS kindly asks to use the link ‘Brochure Milan 2009’ on the Milan pages of this website.