The 31st European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held from 19 to 25 May 2014 at the Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria. They were held in conjunction with the 2014 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which ended 18 May in the same arena. It was the fourth time the senior and junior women's and men's European championships had been held in one location, which posed logistical difficulties for the organizers; there were also issues with installing the podiums and apparatuses. For team events, five gymnasts were on each team; for seniors, three gymnasts competed on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total, while for juniors, four gymnasts could compete on each apparatus, with the top three scores counting.
327 gymnasts, 177 senior and 150 junior, from 39 countries competed at the event. The event functioned as a qualification for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and for the 2015 European Games.
The junior team from Great Britain won a fourth consecutive junior team gold despite two falls in the final apparatus rotation. In the individual all-around, Nile Wilson won gold by more than a point with the highest scores on the high bar and floor. He won a further three events in the apparatus finals, pommel horse, parallel bars, and high bar, for a total of five golds at the competition.
In the senior event, the Russian team won gold, with the British team in second and the Ukrainian team winning bronze. Denis Ablyazin from Russia won three further gold medals in the apparatus finals (floor, rings, and vault). Oleg Verniaiev won the parallel bars final, while Max Whitlock won the pommel horse final. In the high bar final, Epke Zonderland, the reigning Olympic and World champion on the event, won by more than a point.
The competition schedule is as follows (all times are local, EEST, ).
The British team lead the Russian one by almost three points in the qualification round. The Dutch team advanced to the final round for the first time at the European championships. In the final, the Russian team pulled ahead of the British team by two points to win.
The junior team competition also served as the qualifying round for the all-around finals as well as the junior event finals. The format of the competition included four gymnasts per team competing on each event with the highest three scores counting towards the team total. The highest scoring all-around and event gymnasts advanced to finals.