World Futnet Championships U21 2025

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Location: Teraplast Arena - Bistrita, ROMANIA
Event date: 03 Iul 2025 - 06 Iul 2025

The World Futnet Championships Juiniors U21 - 2025 will be hosted by Teraplast Arena in Bistrita, Romania.

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Event Timing: July 3th-6th, 2025
Event Address: TERAPLAST ARENA  -  BISTRITA City - ROMANIA

ORGANISER: Futnet Romania in cooperation with UNIF, EFTA and city of Bistrita.

GOVERNING BODY: UNIF adn EFTA

APPLICATION FORM

Competitions: 

WORLD FUTNET CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNIORS U21 2025 - There will be 3 different championships, one for each of the singles, doubles and triples events. 

The final format of the competions will be established after we know the total number of teams participating in the competitions.

The delegations for each event will be 12 persons composed of a maximum of 3 officials accredited by UNIf who can be a coach, head of delegation, doctor, masseur and maximum of 9 players. Only these people will have access to the competition space.

The deadline for registrations is February 28, 2025.

Only teams that have paid a UNIF membership fee until February 28, 2025 will be accepted.

REFEREE: Each team will bring at its own expense (transport, accommodation and meals expenses will be covered by each country) one referee for each competition. The teams that do not bring a referee will be penalized with a fee that will be established by the UNIF board and will be communicated in due time.

TOWN of BISTRITA

Name:   Bistrița (pronounced: Bee stree t'sah)

Location:   Northern Transylvania - Romania

Nearest airports:   Targu Mures and Cluj Napoca

Size:   7.8 sq. miles (20.6 sq. kilometers)

Elevation:   1,180 ft. (360 meters)

Population:   78,000

First documented:   1264 AD (Villa Bistiche)

Town of Bistrita info
Located at the foot of the Bargau Mountains, not far from the Borgo Pass (Pasul Tihuta in Romanian) which connects Transylvania region to the Bucovina one, the town of Bistrita is one of the oldest in the region. Archeological findings indicate that the area has been inhabited since the Neolithic age, long before Bram Stocker chose it as the setting of his fictional Dracula's castle.

Saxon colonists settled in Bistrita in 1206 and helped develop the town into a flourishing medieval trading post. Bistrita was first mentioned in a written document in 1264 as Villa Bistiche; the name of the town was later changed to Civitas Bysterce. Soon Bistritz - as it was named by its Saxon (German) inhabitants - became one of Transylvania's most important Saxon citadels (Siebenbürgens).

The town was named after the Bistriţa River, which traces its origin to the Slavic word bystrica, meaning fast-flowing river.
In 1353, Bistrita was granted the right to organize an annual 15-day fair and to have its own seal. Its coat of arms represented an ostrich with a horseshoe in its beak, which, according to medieval heraldry, symbolized that trade was among the main occupations of the inhabitants.

In Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, the leading character, Jonathan Harker, visits Bistriţa and spends a night at the Golden Krone Hotel (Hotelul Coroana de Aur) on the eve of St. George's Day, before continuing his journey east to Dracula's castle. Although no such hotel existed when the novel was written, a hotel with the same name has since been constructed for visitors.
Unsettling times forced the city to build defense walls and Bistrita became a fortress. By 1465 18 defensive towers and strong bastions were constructed. In 1602, Austrian troops under General Giorgio Basta damaged parts of Bistrita defense system. In 1863, the gates of the citadel were destroyed by order of the Imperial Court of Vienna. Successive fires during this century caused further damage to the medieval citadel.

Today, the old town's quaint 15th and 16th century merchants' houses and the remains of the 13th century fortress walls allow visitors to imagine Bistrita's  medieval atmosphere. 

TERAPLAST ARENA

Ter ARENA aPlast Arena, located on 33 Aerodromului Street, is a sports hall in Bistrița, Romania. Part of the multifunctional sports complex, the Unirea Sports Complex, is used as a local base for the city's handball team  , CS Gloria 2018 Bistrița-Năsăud.

The hall has an area of 7,350 m2 and can accommodate 3,007 spectators for team games in the hall. In the hall, on the first row of bleachers, there is a space set up for the press with a capacity of 20-40 people and on the ground floor a room for press conferences. Also, on the ground floor there are locker rooms, recovery rooms, medical offices, gym, training room and warehouses for sports equipment. On the second floor there is a bar, a restaurant with space for 190 people, a technical cabin that also includes the command point for firefighters and several rooms that can be used for sporting events, meetings and conferences. The first sporting event held in this hall was the 52nd edition of the Carpathian Women's Handball Trophy between September 29 and October 1, 2022.

Next to the hall there are fields for basketball, football, handball, tennis and an eight-lane running track, a mini-hotel with 30 rooms with two seats arranged on three floors and a parking lot with 477 places. The entire Unirea Sports Complex has an area of 30,166 m2.