Team Portugal will be first in the ring when round one of the Longines FEI Jumping European Championship 2025 kicks off at Casas Novas Equestrian Centre in A Coruña, Spain, on Wednesday afternoon.

During Tuesday evening’s draw – conducted by Ground Jury President Carsten Andre Sørlie and Foreign Technical Delegate Elio Travagliati – the starting order for Wednesday’s opening competition was decided. A total of 18 countries take part in the team competition, and they will today jump in the following order: 1. Portugal; 2. Netherlands; 3. Spain; 4. France; 5. Hungary; 6. Israel; 7. Germany; 8. Switzerland; 9. Austria; 10. Poland; 11. Denmark; 12. Norway; 13. Great Britain; 14. Sweden; 15. Czech Republic; 16. Italy; 17. Belgium; and 18. Ireland. 

A total of 89 horse-and-rider combinations from 23 nations will compete in the first round of the Europeans, including individual athletes from five other countries – Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Liechtenstein and Slovakia. 

The first round of the championship will be conducted over a big Table A course set at a max. of 1.50m and judged under Table C, without a jump-off in the event of equality for the first place. It starts at 15.00 CET.