A record equalling 53 teams have entered the 2006 European Championships to be held in Basel, Switzerland in December. Thirty men's teams and 23 women's teams will fight over the titles currently held by the Norwegian men and the Swedish women.
This is the same total number as 2005, but the men' entries have risen by 1 while the women have dropped one. New participants this year will be Lithuania (men and women) and Serbia and Montenegro (men) while there is no entry this year from last year's competitors - Andorra's men, Bulgaria's women or Ireland's women.