About Us

The European Grooming Association -non profit making-, targeted on promoting and developing the grooming profession, was born from an Umberto Lehmann's idea shared with Mijo Klein, his friend and very known and appreciated French groomer, during a grooming contest in 2001.

More and more contests are held, people can meet and compare different schools, but most of all competitions are a stimulus to improve one's capacities and the best way to achieve success in professional activity.

Each Country can count at least one National Association trying to obtain the official recognition of our profession, organizing formation courses and specific seminars and contests to estimate acquired levels as well.

Nowadays in Europe they are trying to equalize every different Country's activities following a common standard, and we too should work on that way.

Umberto and Mijo let the groomers that usually attend contests all over the world, people that got great success representing their Country or their own National Association, but first of all friends, enthusiastic about their work and longing for constituting something active and functional, know those thoughts.

On the 6 of April 2002 twenty-two, at the same time candidates and voters, they voted to compose the Board: a President, a Vice President, and six Councillors.

First aims of the European Grooming Association were the organization of the European Individual Championship and of the World Team Championship as well.

The first "European Individual Championship" was held on the occasion of "MilanGroom" on April 2003, 26 and 27 in Verbania (Italy).

Our first  World Team Championship held in Barcelona in 2003 had 7 Teams competing; in 2017  we had the pleasure to welcome 20 Teams.

We are proud to verify that the number of the Teams entering the Show has grown at every edition.

Lately we have been so glad to welcome several Teams from South America and Asia. We are sure that more teams will join us in the future.

News

02/08/2024

Poodle Class

23/05/2024

WARNING

04/05/2024

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Events

02/11/2024

Italy

16/11/2024

England

18/01/2025

Italy

25/01/2025

poland

31/01/2025

Portugal

08/02/2025

Switzerland

15/02/2025

France

06/04/2025

Italy

12/04/2025

Belgium

09/05/2025

Czech Republic

25/05/2025

Romania

28/06/2025

Italy

19/07/2025

Romania