The Championships, due to take place from August 11 to 21 next year, will unite the existing senior championships of nine of the continent's leading sports "under one roof" in Munich, 50 years after the German city hosted the Summer Olympics.

A European Championships Trophy will be awarded to the nation finishing top of the overall medal table for the participating sports - athletics, beach volleyball, canoe sprint, cycling, gymnastics, rowing, sport climbing, table tennis and triathlon.

Libor Varhanik, the European Championships 2022 Board chair and European Athletics vice-president, said: "This is a huge milestone for the European Championships Munich 2022.

"All stakeholders have worked together in a spirit of collaboration to develop a fantastic competition schedule over 11 days full of action-packed finals and gold-medal moments, that will feature Europe's brightest stars including the likes of Dina Asher-Smith, Laura Ludwig, Yul Oeltze, Adam Ondra, Peter Sagan, Max Whitlock, Birgit Skarstein, Timo Boll and Alistair Brownlee.

"Munich 2022 will be an amazing viewing experience for ticket holders and viewers at home with television, radio and online channels able to deliver a huge choice of content to sports fans.

"By uniting our sports, we will provide broadcasters great storytelling opportunities, allowing them to seamlessly switch between events and giving audiences the chance to follow their favourite national athletes across the nine Olympic sports from morning till night as they strive for European glory."

The revamped sports programme for Munich 2022 sees increased diversity, with individual, team and ball sports all represented, gender equity across all disciplines, and sports appealing to both younger and older audiences.

Artistic gymnastics will provide the first gold medals on day one, while athletics will begin on August 15.

The programme is expected to deliver a greater spread of European medal-winning nations - estimated at 36 - than the inaugural edition of the Championships held in Glasgow and Berlin in 2018.