List of professional wrestling promotions in Europe

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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.

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

All of Europe[]

Name Owner(s) Years Active Website Notes
New European Championship Wrestling Alex Wright 2009- Yes

Europe[]

Austria[]

Name Location Owner(s) Years active Website Notes
Catch Wrestling Association Graz Otto Wanz
Peter William 		1973-2000 Yes [1][2][3][4]

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 [5]
Copenhagen Championship Wrestling Copenhagen Sebastian Krohn Børgesen 2016- [6]
Dansk Pro Wrestling Randers Kim Tinning 2004- Yes Originally known as Danish Wrestling from 2004 to 2008.[7][8]
Defunct
Premier Wrestling League European Sports Promotion Ltd. 2007-2009 No [9]
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 [10][11][12][13]
Association Beauvaisienne de Catch et d'Athlétisme Beauvais Olivier Grignon 1956-today Yes[permanent dead link]
Association Biterroise de Catch Béziers Max Soulié 2006- Yes [14]
Fédération Française de Catch Professionnel Wissous Henri Deglane
Roger Delaporte
Marc Mercier 		1933
1960-89
2006- 		Yes [15][16][17][18]
Ligue nationale de catch Remiremont Drommer Ludovic
Xavier Christen 		2010- Yes [19]
Ouest-Catch Lamballe Régis Béreschel 2011- Yes
N'Catch Tourcoing Ludivine Hugot 2009- Yes [20][21]
International Catch Wrestling Alliance Laventie Pierre Fontaine 2002- Yes [22][23][24][25][26]
Wrestling Stars Montereau Flesh Gordon
Jean-Marie Albouy-Guidicelli 		1979- Yes [27]
Queens of Chaos Toulouse Jerome Pourrut 2005- Yes [28]
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 [29][30]
Force Francophone du Catch Toulouse Matthias Chalumeau 2004-2010 Yes [31]

Germany[]

Name Location Owner(s) Years active Website Notes
New European Championship Wrestling Nuremberg Alex Wright 2009 - Yes [32][33][34][35][36]
Verband Der Berufsringer Berlin 1912-2005 Yes Oldest known wrestling promotion in the world.[37]
Westside Xtreme Wrestling Oberhausen Felix Kohlenberg, Tassilo Jung, Jörg Steinmetzler, Christian Michael Jakobi 2000- Yes [1][38][39][40][41]

Greece[]

Name Location Owner's Years Active Website Notes
Active
Hellenic Pro Wrestling Association Peristeri Spyros Koyrsaris 2013- The first pro wrestling school in Greece
ZMAK Greek Pro Wrestling Piraeus Petros Polychronides 2016- Yes First Greek official promotion

Hungary[]

Name Location Owner's Years Active Website Notes
Active
Hungarian Championship Wrestling Budapest Aaron Kiss
David Turger
Ben Szalay
 2010- Yes [42]
Defunct
Pro-Wrestling Magyarorszag Budapest Kirill Michurin† 2016-2020 [43]

Malta[]

Name Location Owner's Years Active Website Notes
Active
Pro Wrestling Malta Malta Wayne Pace
 2014- Yes First Maltese promotion[44]

United Kingdom[]

Main article: List of professional wrestling promotions in the United Kingdom

See also[]

References[]

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