The Complainant represents the national football associations of Europe and runs national and club competitions including for male and female players. The men’s football competitions include the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup. The Women’s competitions include the UEFA Women’s Champions League, UEFA Women’s European Championship and UEFA Women’s Nations League.
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The UEFA European Championship, originally called the UEFA European Nations' Cup, is a European football tournament at the national level, which has taken place every four years since 1960 in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of UEFA, determining the continental champion of Europe.<\/p>\n
As early as 1984, the UEFA European Football Championship, has been informally and commercially identified as “EURO”, and suffixed with a two digit or four digit number referring to the year of the event. In the case of the 1984 tournament the form this name took was ‘EURO 84’, and in subsequent years the names used have been ‘EURO 88’, ‘EURO 92’, ‘EURO 96’, ‘EURO 2000’, ‘EURO 2004’, ‘EURO 2008’, ‘EURO 2012’, ‘EURO 2016’, ‘EURO 2020’ and this year, ‘EURO 2024’. In each case, the name was used to refer to the tournament many years prior to the date of the tournament itself. For example, the name “EURO 2000” was in use since at least 1997 with the draw for the tournament taking place in January 1998, in Belgium.<\/p>\n
In 1984, UEFA established its first European tournament for Women’s Football called the UEFA Women’s European Championship which was commercially identified as the Women’s EURO. The Complainant has continued to organise the Women’s EURO tournaments, with the Complainant’s registered trademark in UEFA WOMEN’S EURO dating back to 2008.<\/p>\n
The Complainant’s most recent Women’s EURO tournament in 2022 generated a significant growth in demand, with a 289% increase in media rights values since the previous Women’s EURO; £44m in total spectator spending around matchdays and trips across the host nation, England, for Women’s EURO 2022; and a global live viewership of 365 million, across 195 territories. Viewer figures significantly increased for the Women’s EURO 2022 tournament.<\/p>\n
The Women’s Euro 2025 Championship will take place in Switzerland after a successful bid by the Swiss Football Association. Switzerland shall be hosting the Women’s tournament for the first time after hosting the men’s EURO 2008 with Austria.<\/p>\n
The Complainant owns very extensive rights in the EURO\/S \/ WOMEN’S EURO trademarks (the “Registered Trade Marks”). The Complainant has a significant reputation and has built up a significant amount of goodwill in the Registered Trademarks across Europe.<\/p>", "other_legal_proceedings": "
The Panel is not aware of any other legal proceedings which are pending or decided and which relate to the disputed domain name.<\/p>", "no_response_filed": "
The Complainant contends that the requirements of the Policy have been met and that the disputed domain name should be transferred to it.<\/p>\n
NO ADMINISTRATIVELY COMPLIANT RESPONSE HAS BEEN FILED. <\/p>\n
The Panel notes that Respondent sent an email to the CAC, the contents of which are as follows:<\/p>\n
“No problem to resign on the domain, would very much like the UEFA donate something for SOS Kinderdorf (www.sos-kinderdorf.ch), <\/em>maybe through their UEFA Foundation for children? <\/em>Would be great, if we could solve the case soon.<\/em>”<\/p>",
"rights": " The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the disputed domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy).<\/p>",
"no_rights_or_legitimate_interests": " The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Respondent to have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain name (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy).<\/p>",
"bad_faith": " The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the disputed domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy).<\/p>",
"procedural_factors": " The Panel is satisfied that all procedural requirements under UDRP were met and there is no other reason why it would be inappropriate to provide a decision.<\/p>",
"decision": "Accepted",
"panelists": [
"Jonathan Agmon"
],
"date_of_panel_decision": "2024-01-19 00:00:00",
"informal_english_translation": " The Complainant is the owner of various trademarks, including the following:<\/p>\n * Switzerland trademark registration no. 640130 for EURO 2020, registered on 21 February 2013;<\/p>\n * United Kingdom trademark registration no. UK00003477533 for EURO 2021, registered on 11 August 2020;<\/p>\n * Switzerland trademark registration no. 714708 for EURO 2024, registered on 28 March 2018;<\/p>\n * Switzerland trademark registration no. 801453 for UEFA WOMEN’S EURO 2025, registered on 4 April 2023; and<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Complainant owns and operates the domain name <uefa.com>. The Complainant also maintains a social media presence through its Facebook, Instagram, and X accounts.<\/p>\n The Respondent registered the disputed domain name on 5 April 2023. Currently, the disputed domain name resolves to a parked webpage stating that the disputed domain name has been purchased.<\/p>",
"decision_domains": {
"weuro2025.com": "TRANSFERRED"
},
"panelist": null,
"panellists_text": null
}