Quidditch Competitions

Quidditch is the most popular sport in the Wizarding World. It is as popular as football is in the Muggle Word. So, there are many competitions Quidditch teams that can compete in. Here are a few:

The Inter-House Quidditch Cup.
The Inter House Quidditch Cup is contested at Hogwarts each year. Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor play against each other, and the team with most points at the end of the year win. Gryffindor have been champions since 1995, Harry Potter first won the Cup in 1993. The tournament was cancelled in 1994 as Hogwarts played host to the TriWizard Tournament.

The Cedric Diggory Quidditch Cup.
The Cedric Diggory Quidditch Cup was first introduced in 1998, It is a tournament dedicated to Cedric Diggory, who lost his life in the TriWizard Tournament. The Cup is contested by Hogwarts, Beauxbatons Academy and Durmstrang Institute, the schools who originally took part in the TriWizard Tournament.

The British and Irish Quidditch League.
The British and Irish Quidditch League is contested by the 13 best teams in Britain and Ireland, hence the name. Each team plays each other twice, and the team with the most points at the end of the season wins the League Cup.

The Merlin Cup.
The Merlin Cup is a knockout style tournament played by the British and Irish teams. It is very similiar to Muggle Football's English FA Cup, or Scottish Cup.

The European Cup.
The European Cup is contested by the top teams in Europe. It is a knockout competition, contested every three years. The Wimbourne Wasps have won the Cup three times.

The World Cup.
This is contested by the best international teams in the world. Ireland won in 1994, and the tournament was cancelled in 1998 due to Lord Voldemort's reign of terror. In the series next World Cup will be contested in 2002, in real life the 2014 World Cup is currently being contested.