The 2027 FISU Summer World University Games, officially as the XXXIII Summer World University Games and also known as Chungcheong 2027, is a multi-sport event scheduled from 1 to 12 August 2027 in the cities of the historical Chungcheong Province, South Korea. The region was confirmed as the host for the games on 12 November 2022.[1] This will be the third time in the history that the event will be held in South Korea as the most recent time was the 2015 Summer Universiade held in Gwangju.
Bidding process
Chungcheong Region and North Carolina (United States) were the candidates in the running to host the 2027 edition. Chungcheong was selected on 12 November 2022 at the FISU executive committee in Brussels, Belgium.[2]
Sports
In addition to the 15 compulsory sports, the organizing committee could choose up to three more respecting the infrastructure and local demands.The bid committee proposed rowing and sailing as optional sports. This will be the third time in a row that rowing has been chosen as an optional sport, as it was in Chengdu 2021, while sailing was planned to return after for the first time since Napoli 2019[3]
Despite this, infrastructure issues led to changes in plans and the Organizing Committee reviewed its planning in 2024, and decided that, in respect with local demands and the coasts, maintained rowing and replace sailing and football (which was excluded from the program in 2020) in 2021 with golf (who return after the Taipei 2017), while sailing was planned to return after for the first time since Napoli 2019 and beach volleyball, which it remains in this status for two consecutive editions.[4]
