The EGCA Competition Committee works to manage, monitor and develop EGCA competitions. The committee also helps and supports the development of club goalball in domestic leagues & championships. Official email address of the EGCA Competition Committee is: egca.office@gmail.com.
Following members are part of the EGCA Competition Committee from 1st January – 31st December 2026:
Erkki Miinala – Finland (Chairperson), eki.miinala@gmail.com
Michael Dennis – Germany, michael.dennis@gmx.com
Emma Evans – Great Britain, fentigers@outlook.com
Marcia Ferreira – Portugal, dtn@anddvis.pt
Nerijus Montvydas – Lithuania, nerijus.montvydas@gmail.com
Milos Ranitovic – Montenegro, milosranitovicmiki@gmail.com
Bas Spaans – The Netherlands, baspaans@hotmail.nl
Stefan Stefanovic – Serbia, stevanovic06@gmail.com
Mario Turloff – Germany, mario.turloff@outlook.de
RESPONSIBILITIES
The competition committee is responsible for:
- Decide the registration timelines for host candidates and participating clubs for EGCA competitions, create digital registration forms, and monitor registrations;
- Decide the organizers and dates for EGCA competitions;
- Decide the rules & regulations for EGCA competitions;
- Look for funding, partners & sponsors for EGCA competitions;
- Represent EGCA in the competitions (one member of the committee should be always physically part of the competition and he or she shouldn’t have any other role in the competition. In some cases the EGCA representative can work as a referee, commentator or co-commentator in a tournament);
- Offer consultation for clubs and federations to develop their domestic leagues / championships;
- Work as a mediator in dispute situations and disagreements, particularly those concerning EGCA competitions;
- Apply and enforce rules concerning the organisation of EGCA-competitions;
- Impose, if necessary, suspensions on a club or an athlete who has acted seriously against EGCA competition rules;
- Support the organizers of the EGCA competitions in any case;
- Support the EGCA Executive Board in defining appropriate criteria to award the best athletes, coaches, referees and other individuals at the annual European Goalball Awards (from 2026);
- Monitor that all the results, standings and scorers are properly updated on egca.info website and social media channels together with EGCA Media Group;
- Monitor that all the information is valid on egca.info website concerning the EGCA competitions;
- Produce together with EGCA Media Group the news, previews and recaps from the EGCA competitions.
COMPOSITION
The competition committee is composed of:
- Total 7-9 members;
- 2 – 3 members from EGCA executive board. The President of EGCA also acts as the Chairperson of the Committee;
- 5 – 7 members who are chosen by the chairperson of the committee. These individuals are either very experienced in goalball or have shown strong potential to contribute to the development of club goalball.
TERM
Term of the committee:
- The EGCA Competition Committee works from 1st January to 31st December. The competition committee for next year will be announced during December;
- If a member wishes to resign from the committee, this should be communicated to the Chairperson, who will accept the resignation.
MEETINGS
- Many discussions of the committee are conducted by e-mails. “Decisions made by email are valid if more than 50% of the members agree;
- The committee can also use WhatsApp for discussion on some urgent issues;
- All the members can suggest some issues to the agenda;
- The committee also discuss and decide about topics that clubs / individuals have asked for the committee to deal with;
- The chairperson presents the issues that are the most important or urgent;
- Time to send an opinion, proposal, idea, addition or correction must be three days at least;
- The chairperson can invite the members to an online meeting if there are a lot of decisions to make at the same time or if at least two members ask for the online meeting to make some decisions;
- The date of the online meeting should be informed minimum 7 days before the meeting;
- Decisions are made democratically: if there are over 50 % members agree the decision is confirmed;
- A member is not allowed to vote if the club that he / she is representing is the subject of the vote;
- In the event of a 50–50 vote, the Chairperson shall have the casting vote, except where he or she is conflicted.”