01
Read the roadbook
Every stage crosses selective mountain terrain. The roadbook points the way – attention and navigation keep you moving.
Edition 2026 · Off-road since 1993
Leave theroad behind.
Five trophy days in the mountains, clever challenges, and real teamwork. An off-road rally for people who want to make it through together.
Limited entries · One registration per team
From the Trophy archive2024
5
Trophy days
2–4
Vehicles per team
2
People per vehicle
1
Shared mission
01 / The idea
Adventure, not an arms race.
The Transsylvania Trophy is not about who built the most extreme machine. Skill, the right equipment, and a team that sticks together are what count.
The trails range from medium to hard, but they are driveable. Near-stock and thoughtfully modified vehicles belong here – extreme prototypes do not.
Demanding stages, beautiful nature, and a week among like-minded people make this much more than just a competition.
“A friendly, fair, and team-first spirit comes before everything else.”
Real Trophy moments
Mud. Mountains. Teamwork.
Captured at the 2024 Trophy
02 / The format
Drive. Solve. Finish together.
No brutal battle of machinery: a considered off-road competition with roadbooks, checkpoints, and challenges where the whole team matters.
02
Act as a team
Recover, secure, decide: the second vehicle is there when things get difficult. Special tasks challenge drivers and co-drivers together.
03
Share the stories
After the stage, the shared base brings food, conversation, and exactly the kind of stories people are still telling years later.
03 / Team formation
Nobody drives alone.
A Trophy team consists of at least two and no more than four road-legal vehicles. That makes every stage safer – and every challenge a shared mission.
2–4
Driver + co-driver. Always.
Every vehicle must have a co-driver. Assemble your own team and register all vehicles together in one clear flow.
Start team registrationThe beginning
1993
04 / History
Born from true off-road spirit.
The first Transsylvania Trophy started in May 1993 as a European alternative to the Camel Trophy. Twenty-nine teams arrived in their own vehicles, navigated with handwritten roadbooks, and tackled seven intense days in the Carpathians.
Then
No GPS navigation, hardly any support on the trail, and challenges that could only be solved by working together.
Now
More safety and organization – but the same core: your own vehicles, wild nature, and teamwork winning over the lone-wolf mentality.
Transsylvania Trophy 2026