List of professional wrestling promotions in Europe

This is a list of professional wrestling promotions in Europe, sorted by country, and lists both active and defunct professional wrestling promotions.

This article is about professional wrestling promotions in Europe. For an international listing, see List of professional wrestling promotions. For a list of National Wrestling Alliance-affiiated promotions, see List of National Wrestling Alliance territories.

All of Europe
Name Owner(s) Years Active Website Notes
Active
New European Championship Wrestling Alex Wright 2009– Yes
Union of European Wrestling Alliances 2009– Governing body[1][2]

Europe

Austria
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Website Notes
Catch Wrestling Association Graz Otto Wanz
Peter William		 1973–2000 Yes [3][4][5][6]

Croatia
Name Location Owner's Years Active Website Notes
Active
Prvi Hrvatski Kečeri Zagreb Antonio Ilić
 2005– Yes First Croatian promotion

Denmark
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Website Notes
Active
BODYSLAM! Pro Wrestling Aarhus Kristian Buus Nielsen

Søren Bjerg Nielsen

 2015– Yes [7]
Copenhagen Championship Wrestling Copenhagen Sebastian Krohn Børgesen 2016– Union of European Wrestling Alliances member.[8][9]
Dansk Pro Wrestling Randers Kim Tinning 2004– Yes Originally known as Danish Wrestling from 2004 to 2008.[10][11] Union of European Wrestling Alliances member.[12]
Nordic Elite Wrestling Copenhagen Crazy 8 2021– Yes
Defunct
Premier Wrestling League European Sports Promotion Ltd. 2007–2009 No [13]
Wrestling DK Fredericia 2011–2016 No

France
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Website Notes
Active
Association les Professionnels du catch Nanterre Fausto Costantino 2004– Yes [14][15][16][17]
Association Beauvaisienne de Catch et d'Athlétisme Beauvais Olivier Grignon 1956–today Yes
Association Biterroise de Catch Béziers Max Soulié 2006– Yes Union of European Wrestling Alliances member.[18][19]
Fédération Française de Catch Professionnel Wissous Henri Deglane
Roger Delaporte
Marc Mercier		 1933
1960–1989
2006–		 Yes [20][21][22][23]
Ligue nationale de catch Remiremont Drommer Ludovic
Xavier Christen		 2010– Yes [24]
Ouest-Catch Lamballe Régis Béreschel 2011– Yes
N'Catch Tourcoing Ludivine Hugot 2009– Yes [25][26]
International Catch Wrestling Alliance Laventie Pierre Fontaine 2002– Yes [27][28][29][30][31]
Wrestling Stars Montereau Flesh Gordon
Jean-Marie Albouy-Guidicelli		 1979– Yes [32]
Catch Connexion Montpellier
Perpignan		 Nicolas Broisseau
Yannick Roussel		 2008– Yes
European Wrestling League Championship Mérignac (Gironde) Frédéric Juste 2007– Yes
Defunct
Fighting Spirit Federation Toulouse Laurent Pourrut
Jerome Pourrut
Sacha Puyssegur		 2005–2007 Yes [33][34]
Force Francophone du Catch Toulouse Matthias Chalumeau 2004–2010 Yes [35]
Queens of Chaos Toulouse Jerome Pourrut 2005–2007 Yes [36]

Germany
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Website Notes
German Wrestling Federation Berlin Ahmed Chaer, Crazy Sexy Mike 1995– Yes
New European Championship Wrestling Nuremberg Alex Wright 2009– Yes [37][38][39][40][41]
Verband der Berufsringer Berlin 1912–2005 No Oldest known wrestling promotion in the world.[42]
Westside Xtreme Wrestling Essen wXw Europe GmbH
Felix Kohlenberg, Tassilo Jung, Jörg Steinmetzler, Christian Michael Jakobi		 2000– Yes [3][43][44][45][46]

Greece
Name Location Owner's Years Active Website
Active
ZMAK Greek Pro Wrestling Piraeus Petros Polychronides 2016– Yes
Greek Wrestling Association Athens Antonis Remve

Panagiotis Gaziotis

 2022–
Greek Wrestling House Tripoli George Konstas 2021–
Hellenic Pro Wrestling Association Athens HPWA Board 2018-

Hungary
Name Location Owner's Years Active Website Notes
Active
Hungarian Championship Wrestling Budapest Aaron Kiss
David Turger
Ben Szalay
 2010– Yes [47]
Defunct
Pro-Wrestling Magyarország Budapest Kirill Michurin† 2016–2020 [48]

Malta
Name Location Owner's Years Active Website Notes
Active
Pro Wrestling Malta Malta Wayne Pace
 2014– Yes First Maltese promotion[49]

Czech Republic

Name Location Owner's Years Active Website Notes
Active
VcV Original Wrestling Prague VcV Original Wrestling 2012– Yes First Czech promotion

Poland
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Website Notes
Active
Kombat Pro Wrestling Gdynia Kombat Pro Wrestling 2015– Yes Kombat Pro Wrestling was created in place of Do Or Die Wrestling that ceased operations in 2015.
Prime Time Wrestling Chorzów Arkadiusz "Pan" Pawłowski
Marcin Rzeźniczek		 2021– Yes

United Kingdom and Ireland
Main article: List of professional wrestling promotions in Great Britain and Ireland

See also

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