The EO Youth Day is an annual event in the Netherlands where young Christians from various churches sing concerts together, pray and listen to speeches.

After four other small-scale youth days in Arnhem, Hilversum, Leiden and Den Bosch, it was decided to move to Jaarbeurs in Utrecht in 1980 to turn it into a national event.

When Jaarbeurs became too small for the number of participants, it was moved to the Galgenwaard Stadium, also in Utrecht, which could accommodate about 30,000 people.

In 1998 the location was moved again, this time to the newly completed stadium GelreDome in Arnhem, which is covered and can accommodate 35,000 people.

Only in 1999 did the number of visitors rise to 50,000 young people, when the event was held for the first time in the Amsterdam ArenA on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Youth Day.

Jan Peter Balkenende (CDA), Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 2002 and 2010, visited the EO Youth Day in 2005 and 2009.

In 2011, Marja van Bijsterveldt (Minister of Education, Culture and Science) attended the EO Youth Day in addition to Rouvoet.

In 2012, the then 32-year-old Martin Brand should have been the speaker of the day, however, he was hospitalized after a cardiac arrest on June 3, 2012 (barely a week before the event).

[16] The Evangelische Omroep apologized afterwards in 1998 after the broadcaster had sent a fax to the Netherlands national team to wish them luck during the World Cup in France.

Through chairman Arie van der Veer and then director Andries Knevel, the broadcaster said: "It is an unacceptable mixing between church and world.

[19] In the eighties there was already a riot around the EO Youth Day and homosexuality, when a group of gay activists disrupted the program by throwing paint.