A lubricious coating for coating a substrate surface in need thereof, comprising: (i) an adhesion promoting coating for forming a base coating layer on a substrate material onto which a lubricious top layer coating can be formed, comprising: a polymeric adhesion promoter; and a first crosslinked polymeric matrix formed by a first monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent, wherein the polymeric adhesion promoter is a block copolymer comprising hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymer blocks and/or a hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups, where from 10% to 100% of the hydrophilic functional groups are capped with a hydrophobic functional group, wherein when the polymeric adhesion promoter is a hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups, where from 10% to 100% of the hydrophilic functional groups are capped with a hydrophobic functional group, the hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups is one or more of the group selected from polyethylenimine, polyacrylamide, polysaccharide, and poly(vinyl alcohol), and the hydrophobic functional group caps one or two hydrophilic functional groups and is selected from one or more of methylene (CH 2), methyl (CH 3), ethylene (CHCH 3), ethyl (CH 2 CH 3), C 3 - 6 alkyl, and C 3 - 6 alkylene, preferably CH(CH 2) 2 CH 3 where the latter two groups are unsubstituted or substituted by a hydroxyl group; and (ii) a lubricious coating layer comprising a second crosslinked polymer matrix formed by: (a) curing at least one hydrophilic curable polymer having at least two curable functional groups with itself; or (b) curing of at least one hydrophilic curable polymer having at least one curable functional group in combination with a monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent having at least two curable functional groups, where the monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent has a molecular weight of from 200 to 1000 Daltons, preferably from 300 to 600 Daltons. (i) an adhesion promoting coating for forming a base coating layer on a substrate material onto which a lubricious top layer coating can be formed, comprising: a polymeric adhesion promoter; and a first crosslinked polymeric matrix formed by a first monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent, wherein the polymeric adhesion promoter is a block copolymer comprising hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymer blocks and/or a hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups, where from 10% to 100% of the hydrophilic functional groups are capped with a hydrophobic functional group, wherein when the polymeric adhesion promoter is a hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups, where from 10% to 100% of the hydrophilic functional groups are capped with a hydrophobic functional group, the hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups is one or more of the group selected from polyethylenimine, polyacrylamide, polysaccharide, and poly(vinyl alcohol), and the hydrophobic functional group caps one or two hydrophilic functional groups and is selected from one or more of methylene (CH 2), methyl (CH 3), ethylene (CHCH 3), ethyl (CH 2 CH 3), C 3 - 6 alkyl, and C 3 - 6 alkylene, preferably CH(CH 2) 2 CH 3 where the latter two groups are unsubstituted or substituted by a hydroxyl group; and a polymeric adhesion promoter; and a first crosslinked polymeric matrix formed by a first monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent, wherein the polymeric adhesion promoter is a block copolymer comprising hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymer blocks and/or a hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups, where from 10% to 100% of the hydrophilic functional groups are capped with a hydrophobic functional group, wherein when the polymeric adhesion promoter is a hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups, where from 10% to 100% of the hydrophilic functional groups are capped with a hydrophobic functional group, the hydrophilic polymer comprising hydrophilic functional groups is one or more of the group selected from polyethylenimine, polyacrylamide, polysaccharide, and poly(vinyl alcohol), and the hydrophobic functional group caps one or two hydrophilic functional groups and is selected from one or more of methylene (CH 2), methyl (CH 3), ethylene (CHCH 3), ethyl (CH 2 CH 3), C 3 - 6 alkyl, and C 3 - 6 alkylene, preferably CH(CH 2) 2 CH 3 where the latter two groups are unsubstituted or substituted by a hydroxyl group; and (ii) a lubricious coating layer comprising a second crosslinked polymer matrix formed by: (a) curing at least one hydrophilic curable polymer having at least two curable functional groups with itself; or (b) curing of at least one hydrophilic curable polymer having at least one curable functional group in combination with a monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent having at least two curable functional groups, where the monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent has a molecular weight of from 200 to 1000 Daltons, preferably from 300 to 600 Daltons. (a) curing at least one hydrophilic curable polymer having at least two curable functional groups with itself; or (b) curing of at least one hydrophilic curable polymer having at least one curable functional group in combination with a monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent having at least two curable functional groups, where the monomeric or polymeric crosslinking agent has a molecular weight of from 200 to 1000 Daltons, preferably from 300 to 600 Daltons.