Pizza Champion Cup 2024 - The largest pizza baking competition in the Nordics

Welcome to witness the largest pizza baking competition in the Nordics in 2024! On February 1st, it's time for the most skilled pizza chefs in the Nordics to compete in the Pizza Champion Cup! This year, the competition will be held across 6 categories: Nordic Best Gourmet Pizza (Napoli Style Pizza), Nordic Best Margherita Pizza 2024, 100% Plant-Based Pizza Chef 2024, Best of the Best Pizza Champion Chef 2024, Nordic Freestyle Acrobatics 2024, and Pizza Chef of the Year 2024.

The competition will take place during the Fastfood & Café & Restaurant Expo at Kistamässan, featuring a total of 43 registrations across the competition categories. We expect a large audience and pizzas of world-class quality! The competition provides pizza chefs from across the country the opportunity to showcase themselves and give extra publicity to their pizza businesses.

The competition entries by the pizza chefs will be judged by a high-profile jury consisting of professional pizza bakers, previous winners of the Pizza Champion Cup, and experts, including Mike Arvblom, a former world champion in pizza and the founder of the Pizza Champion Cup. It will be a long, challenging, and flavorful day for the jury to determine the competition results. See all the participants and jury members further down the page.

The winner in the category of Nordic Best Gourmet Pizza (Napoli Style Pizza) will win a flight and hotel package to the Pizza World Championship, as well as an exclusive N-Series baking and pizza oven from Sveba Dahlen. If you're interested in knowing more about the oven, click here.

If you're visiting the Pizza Champion Cup during the Fastfood & Café & Restaurant Expo in Stockholm, make sure not to miss Sveba Dahlen's booth, G:20.

Sveba Dahlen is the main sponsor of the Pizza Champion Cup

Sveba Dahlen is proudly sponsoring the Pizza Champion Cup, highlighting the Swedish pizza scene in a great and exciting manner. The competition provides pizza bakers from all over the country the opportunity to showcase their skills and display their expert craftsmanship.

During the competition, all pizzas will be baked in high-quality electric pizza ovens from Sveba Dahlen! They provide the competition participants with optimal opportunities to produce pizzas of the highest quality! The pizza ovens you can see at the competition area are: High Temp pizza oven that bakes Neapolitan pizza at up to 500 degrees, premium pizza oven P-Series, and a P-Series Beyond Black with 2 decks and space for 6 pizzas per deck!

Competitors in NORDIC BEST GOURMET PIZZA (NAPOLI STYLE PIZZA):

Ridvan Bimay - Farina - Uppsala, Sweden.
Garett White - Benchwarmers Taproom - Helsingborg, Sweden.
Antonino Mosve - Bella Napoli - Bjärred, Sweden.
Pasquale Zito - Gastronome - Lund, Sweden.
Sandro Relijanovic - ltalia- La Cucina Della Nonna - Lidköping, Sweden.
Kader Cheriet - Restaurant & PIRLO Pizza - Neck, Sweden.
Antonio Guarniera - Ludo Restaurant - Norway.
Sofie Loirendal - Kaffestugan i Böda AB - Löttorp, Sweden.
James Maxwell-Stewart - Ludo Restaurant - Norway.
Faridoon Figo Stanikzai - Porto Thisted - Denmark.
Wally Munteanu - Bulldog Kitchen - Gothenburg, Sweden.
Tobias Gundahl - Svanskog's pizzeria - Svanskog, Sweden.
Majed Noel - Markus Pizza Restaurant - Denmark.
Nadia Karmil - Melvrerk - Denmark.
Zeki Hanouch - Trattoria Gabriel - Norrköping, Sweden.

Competitors in 100% PLANT BASED PIZZA CHEF 2024:

Faridoon Figo Stanikzai - Porto Thisted - Denmark.
Antonio Guarniera - Ludo Restaurant - Norway.
Kristjan Longar - Florentine - Stockholm, Sweden.

Competitors in NORDIC FREESTYLE ACROBATICS 2024:

Bledar Lezha - Gothenburg, Sweden.
Zeki Hanouch - Trattoria Gabriel - Norrköping, Sweden.
Faridoon Figo Stanikzai - Porto Thisted - Denmark.

Jury members Pizza Champion Cup 2024

Mike Arvblom - WC-Gold Pizza Chef (jury chairman).
Dan Arvblom - Vice Chairman of the Pizza Champion Cup.
Josef Hakimi - Nordic Gold.
Simone Pizzuto - Winner of Sweden's Best Gourmet Pizza 2019.
Tony Gerasovski - Swedish Champion.
Jannis Pebes - Swedish Silver.
Riccardo Birghillotti - Pizza Champion Cup Pizza Chef Of The Year 2018, and the owner of one of the the only AVPN certified pizzeria in Sweden.
Marco Fuso - Award-winning pizza chef & pizza expert.
Gorm Wisweh - Danish TV chef.
Danny Falkeman - Michelin chef and co-founder of the Michelin restaurant Etoile in Stockholm and the pizza chain Stella Pizza.
Dave Sommers - 3x world champion from the USA, member of the USA's Pizza team Marius Niva I Norwegian pizza expert.
Kiprianos Kayyal - Respected pizza expert with over 28 years of experience and 17 diplomas from the world's leading pizza school. East Jutland's Best 2021, and Central Jutland's Best 2020.
Giorgia Riggio - Ciccillo Riggio's granddaughter, senator of Neapolitan pizza, has won various awards in the pizza industry. Works with Italian Michelin chefs Giorgio Riggio I 4x world champion in pizza, acrobatics 1999/2000/2003/2009
Luciano Sorbillo - The World Famous Pizza lnfluencer and Pizza Chef from Italy.
Jonny Yuksel - Swedish Gold & Scania Gold.
Heikki Sikström - KOTI Pizza with over 290 Restaurants.
Mikael Lundgren - Pizza expert with over 30 years of experience in the pizza industry. Area Sales Manager Foodservice Sveba Dahlen.