It was created by the European Shooting Confederation in preparation for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, and has its premiere season in 2009.

For the competition, Europe is divided into three regions: Eastern, Northern and Western.

In each of the regions, all federations who want to participate administer a preliminary 40-shot round for their own teams and submit the results to the ESC.

The preliminary rounds may also be held by several federations in cooperation, often in conjunction with other major international competitions; in either case, they are supervised by an appointed ISSF judge.

The top five teams in each region compete in the regional qualification group, which is a round-robin tournament where the teams pair up their shooters according to previous results in a manner similar to that of the German Bundesliga.