POLO NATIONS CUP
POLO NATIONS CUP
This concept, which is highly publicized, did not yet exist in polo, even though it is a team sport par excellence! The prospect of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games has inspired the French Polo Federation (FFP) and the Chantilly Polo Club: the Polo Nations Cup will be held in June 2024 (from 13 to 23). It will oppose, at a 12-goal level, teams representing a nation, a region or a state selected by their federations.
POLO NATIONS CUP
In 2024, this Polo Nations Cup will be part of the events held outside the official program organized in the wake of the Paris Olympic Games.
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!
Olympic
Games
France will host the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.
Still with the willingness to develop our sport, the French Polo Federation (FFP), with the support of the Federation of International Polo (FIP), has submitted its candidacy to the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games for polo to participate to the competitions as a “demonstration sport”, by organizing a 26-goal tournament opposing international teams.
This year 2024 has a particular meaning for our Federation as this marks the centenary of the participation of polo to the Olympic Games of 1924. The Final opposed Argentina to the United States and took place on the 6th of July, in front of nearly 8000 spectators, which represented an outstanding influx at this time.
In the perspective of the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, we have decided to create a new tournament, the nation cup, level 12 goals which will take place for the first edition from 8 to 18 June 2023.
The teams will be composed of a minimum of one player of the nationality and/or region represented, and will be held at the federation's headquarters in Chantilly.
The wider idea is to take advantage of the Olympics to promote polo, in 2024 the tournament will take place during the equestrian week of the Olympics, allowing us to attract a good number of spectators, officials and media to develop polo.
There is no limit to the number of teams, so come along and let polo shine!
Jean-Edouard Mazery - President of the FFP
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.