Key facts
- Genre
- Multi-sports event
- Frequency
- Biennial
- Location
- Various
- Inaugurated
- 1985 ; 41 years ago ( 1985 )
- Most recent
- 2025 Island Games
- Next event
- 2027 Island Games
- Participants
- ~ 2,000
- Organised by
- IIGA
- Sponsor
- Orkney Builders, Shiela Fleet, Loganair and others
- Website
- Official IIGA website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Island Games are biennial international multi-sports events organised by the International Island Games Association (IIGA). Competitor teams each represent different island communities (with one team from the peninsula of Gibraltar) which are IIGA members. Currently, all competitor teams represent non-sovereign territories of European nations—some within European waters and some further overseas.
The games are being hosted by the Faroe Islands in 2027. The previous edition was the 2025, which took place in Orkney with around 2,200 competitors from 24 islands or island groups participating in 14 sports.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Island Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.