Teqball featured as a demonstration sport for two days at the European Universities Games in Łódź ©FITEQ

Teqball has featured as a demonstration sport for two days at the European Universities Games in the Polish city of Łódź.

Poland is proving a hotbed for teqball, with last year's International Federation of Teqball (FITEQ) World Championships held in Gliwice, and the sport on the programme as a medal event at next year's European Games in Kraków-Małopolska.

Some of the country's top players performed in the demonstration, with fans and athletes also offered the opportunity to take part in the sport.

FITEQ aims to engage with future players and fans through its attendance at continental events, with the European Universities Games, the flagship multi-sport event of the European University Sports Association, featuring more than 5,500 student athletes.

The Games, which ran from July 17 to 30, made their return for the first time in four years, with Coimbra in Portugal the previous host in 2018.

Poland is proving a hotbed for teqball, with the sport due to feature as a medal event at next year's European Games ©FITEQ
Poland is proving a hotbed for teqball, with the sport due to feature as a medal event at next year's European Games ©FITEQ

Belgrade was unable to host the European University Games as hoped in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

FITEQ expressed its thanks to the Polish Teqball Federation for its work in organising the demonstration and the Łódź University of Technology for staging the event.

A teq table was donated to the institution, with Croatia's University of Zagreb and Spain's Rey Juan Carlos University also receiving tables for winning the men's and women's futsal events respectively.

FITEQ claims that teqball is the world's fastest growing sport, and general secretary Marius Vizer Jr has said that the governing body is targeting "all multi-sport events on an international level".