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Sailing Champions League Cup: Entries invited for qualification act with 10,000 Euros at stake

by Alexey Zhirov 25 Aug 2021 21:50 BST 23-26 September 2021
Sailing Champions League Cup © Andrey Sheremetev

St. Petersburg Yacht Club invites crews to take part in the Russian qualification CUP of the SAILING Champions League and fight for the right to represent home country in the 2022 Champions League's Series' Final Qualifier. The qualification CUP will take place in St. Petersburg on September 23-26, 2021.

SAILING Champions League - competition of the strongest yacht clubs in Europe. This competition is analogous to the UEFA football league but in sailing. SCL brings together the finalists of the national sailing leagues from Europe and Asia Pacific. Russia is a permanent participant in the series. In seasons 2015 and 2017, Russian teams managed to win medals in the SAILING Champions League finals.

Since 2015, St. Petersburg has regularly hosted one of the qualifying Acts of the qualifying series. Spectacular races on the Neva have become the hallmark of Russian sailing in Europe.

In September 2021, the qualifying CUP of the SAILING Champions League returns to St. Petersburg. As the number of competitors is constantly growing, for the 2022 season, the SAILING Champions League introduces multilevel qualification. The SAILING Champions League CUP in St. Petersburg selects initially the three crews to proceed to the SAILING Champions League Finals' qualifier. At that stage, the SAILING Champions League finalists will be selected.

The SAILING Champions League CUP in St. Petersburg is open to all teams from any country. Besides the fight for the right to proceed to the next level of the Series qualification, the winners will share the prize fund of 10 000 Euros.

The races will take place on September 23-26 in the home waters of the hosting Yacht Club of St. Petersburg. In addition, the host club supplies the participants with a fleet for the competition and renders all the visa support if needed. The competition will be held on MX700 class boats (analogous to J70 class).

See Notice of race here

From 2015, Gazprom Company is the long-standing general partner of the Sailing Champions League Cup in St. Petersburg.

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