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.

CE Cup 2020 will be

CE Cup 2020  will be held. The pandemic situation getting better in Europe that we can held the Pre-European Championship in Szeged at September. We have 32 entries in this moment and the final entry date is 10th July. The entry fee is 100 EUR only and we will give gas for the training flights too.

We are waiting you with three event: Szeged International Airshow, Central European Cup 2020 – Pre-European Championship and  the BorTér wine festival.

Hope to see you in Szeged.

CE Cup 2020

The Central European Cup 2020 will be a Category 1 event from 14th to 18th September. It will be Pre-European Championship too. The closing ceremony will be at Friday evening and the World Championsip will start at Sunday in the neighbour country, Slovenia.

The before weekend will be the Szeged International Airshow and the BorTér wine festival will start at 16th September in the city. We can accept 60 competitors only. The entry fee is 100 EUR before 10th May 2020 and 300 EUR between 10th May – 15th June 2020. Includes gas, electronic map, light breakfast and lunch, dinner on the Awards Ceremony only for 4 persons/team, free camping facilities on the airport.

The invitation process will start in this year, latest 10th December 2019.

The winners

We had seven flights and 24 tasks during this nice week. We started with an amazing Opening Ceremony at the Franciscan Monastery and finished at the Szeged Airport during the Airshow. You may find the event details and results on the Electronic Notice Board here.

1st Women European Cup silver medal Diana NASONOVA (RUS), gold medal Rita BECZ (HUN) and bronze medal Inga ULE (LAT)
39th Hungarian National Championship silver medal János KONECSNI, gold medal Péter MOLNÁR and bronze medal Péter NAGY
3rd Central European Cup silver medal Péter MOLNÁR (HUN), gold medal Daniel KUSTERNIGG (AUT) and bronze medal Evgeny CHUBAROV (RUS)

Entry Closing Date

Do not forget the entry closing date is 14th June 2014 for the  1st Women Europen Cup and 3rd Central European Cup hot air balloon competition and to the 39th Hungarian National Championship and to the 4th Szeged Ballon Cup fiesta .
Don’t miss it and come to Szeged where will be the 22nd European Championship in 2021 too.

Europeans 2021 will be in Szeged

The CIA Planery sanctioned the following CAT1 Events in Szeged, Hungary:


with one voice for the Europeans
  • 1st Women European Cup and 3rd Central European Cup and 39th Hungarian National Championship and 4th Szeged Balloon Cup, 2019
  • 4th Central European and 5th Szeged Balloon Cup, 2020
  • 22nd FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2021

Women European Cup and Central European Cup 2019

FAI Category 1 Event

We would like to invite you to the 1st Women Europen Cup and 3rd Central European Cup hot air balloon competition and to the 39th Hungarian National Championship and to the 4th Szeged Ballon Cup fiesta and the 4th Szeged Airshow which is the largest flying event in the region.

The Event will run from 9th September to 15th September 2019 in Szeged, Hungary.

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