Invitation to CE Cup 2023 and Pre-Worlds

We would like to invite you to the Central European Cup 2023 and Pre 25th FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship and the Szeged International Airshow which is the largest flying event in the region and the BorTér wine festival.

The event will run 7th to 14th September 2023.

The entry fee is 600 euros including gas, electronic map, Tubes, dinner on the Opening Ceremony and Awards Ceremony and breakfast for 4 persons/team, free camping facilities on the airport.

The entry closing date is 2nd June 2023.

The first gas refuelling will be after the first flight. The entry fee is not refundable except if the Event is cancelled. Printed map is available if you request it, the price is 10 EUR / piece. You should pay it with the entry fee.
Lunch (12 EUR/ person) and extra breakfast (8 EUR/ person) are available.

The Central European Cup hot air balloon competition is open to all NACs which have met their obligations to the FAI. Pilots-in-command shall have been authorized to act as pilot-in-command of that sub-class of aerostat for which the event is held, at least twelve months prior to the start of the event. Each pilot-in-command shall have accumulated at least 50 hours as pilot-in-command. The maximum size category is 3400 m3. Maximum 60 competitors will be accepted, first come first served. We will apply the AXMER 2023.
The Event Director will be Paolo Oggioni (ITA) and the Deputy Director will be Zoltán Pálhegyi (HUN).

Fiesta pilots are welcome too but they can make passenger flights with organisers’ boarding pass only.

We will use the BLS and WhatchMeFly for scoring, Balloon Tubes for live tracking of the event and Balloon-tracking as the official event management system.

Limited equipment rental service is available. Rental car service will be available. Limited additional crew members are available. The event homepage is CECup.eu, the online entry form is here.

Hope to see you in Szeged at September!

CE Cup invitation 2022

We would like to invite you to the Central European Cup 2022. The event will be FAI Cat2 competition on the same place where will be the 25th FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship.

The event will run 9th to 13th September 2022. The Worlds 2022 will start at 16th September in Murska Sobota, Slovenia and it’s 4h 15 minutes drive only from Szeged.

The entry fee is 190 euros including gas, electronic map, dinner on the Opening Ceremony and Awards Ceremony, breakfast and lunch for 4 persons/team, free camping facilities on the airport.

Maximum 60 competitors will be invited, the fiesta pilots are not including in the maximum numbers of competitors. Fiesta pilots are welcome too but they can make passenger flights with organisers’ boarding pass only.

We will use the Balloon-tracking System as the official event management, tracker and logger system for this Event.

You may find the entry form here.

Europeans 2021


The invitation of 22nd FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship’s process started. We sent out the leters to the NACs at 15th January 2021. Deadline for them to send nominations is 25th February.

You will find the actual informations and all news on the Event’s website: europeans2021.eu

The schedule of the invitation:

  • Start to send out the invitation to NACs at 15th January.
  • Deadline for NACs to send nominations is 25th February.
  • Individual invitation to Competitors will be sent on 1st March.
  • 1st round deadline for Competitors’ application and entry fee is 28th April.
  • 2nd round start 3rd of May.
  • 2nd round deadline for Competitors’ application and entry fee 31st of May.

Good news for foreign participants

According the 408/2020. (VIII. 30.) Government Decree you can enter to Hungary because you will be participate on our sporting event and in paragraphs 12/2 give special dispensation if within 3 days prior to the sporting event, performed once, in accordance with health professional rules Hungarian or English containing the results of an appropriate molecular biological test – SARS-CoV-2 PCR test certifies that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was not detected in.
You will need our personal invitation too what we will send you.
So see you Szeged in soon.