POLO NATIONS CUP
POLO NATIONS CUP
This concept, which has received a great deal of media coverage, has not yet existed in polo, despite the fact that it is a team sport par excellence! The prospect of the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 inspired the French Polo Federation (FFP) and the Chantilly Polo Club: the Polo Nations Cup was born! In 2025, we'll be celebrating the third edition, to be held from 12 to 22 June at the Polo Club du Domaine de Chantilly. The competition will feature a dozen teams of 10/12 goals, each representing a nation, region or state selected by their federations.
POLO NATIONS CUP
In 2024, this Polo Nations Cup was part of the events held outside the official program organized in the wake of the Paris Olympic Games, with the PARIS GAMES POLO CHALLENGE 2024, in honour of the opening match of the 4th Olympic polo tournament at the 1924 Paris Games, between the United States and France.
Polo has always been part of the Olympic family and the FIP is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Polo has been an official discipline of the Olympic Games five times. First played at the 1900 Summer Olympics, it was dropped from the program after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. It was an Anglo-American team that won the first gold medal in 1900, then Great Britain twice (1908 and 1920) before Argentina took over (1924 and 1936).
The Polo Nations Cup will perhaps allow a gradual return to this beautiful era of polo at the Olympic Games, but above all to attract the public around the fields to continue to develop polo in France and in Europe!
CHANTILLY POLO CLUB
he birth of the largest polo school in France, and one of the largest Polo Clubs in Europe, is owed to the Baron de Rothschild, who enjoyed organizing polo tournaments. The first game of polo took place on the land where the Chantilly Polo Club was going to be created a few years later. The space grasps you; the immensity captivates, polo fields and meadows extend as far as the eye can see, only protected by an 18th century farmhouse. Patrick Guerrand Hermès, founder of the Polo Club, with his crew, made use of ocean of greenery in the heart of the Chantilly Castle domain forest.
The development of polo in France and the Chantilly Polo Club: it is thus a well-known and common story! Directed from the beginning by Philippe Perrier, it is a center of leisure, training, competition, welcome and exchanges between clubs; a warm place where lovers of polo can be found everywhere. As the largest French polo school, and one of the largest European Polo Clubs, it hosts many international competitions.