Lloret de Mar continues to host sporting events at its municipal facilities. This weekend, football will take centre stage with two major events: Futbol-In and the AFIA World Cup Espanha 2024.
Futbol-In
Futbol-In arrives this weekend 24, 25 and 26 May in Lloret de Mar, Blanes and Vidreres with around 1,200 players, 400 coaches, 6 playing fields and 4,000 accompanying persons. A competition format of 8 groups with 5 teams each. Each group is headed by a professional grassroots squad, ensuring the experience of playing against a top level team in all the participating autonomous teams.
FC Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, RCD Espanyol, Valencia CF, Real Madrid, Girona FC, Real Betis, Levante UD, Sevilla FC and RCD Mallorca are the national professional squads, while Juventus, SC Braga, FC Porto, OGC Nice, Sporting CP and AC Milan complete the list of international squads.
The competition will start on Saturday morning with the group phase which will last for the whole day. On Sunday morning, the final phases begin in all the towns. In the afternoon, the semi-finals and finals of all categories will be held at the Lloret de Mar Municipal Stadium. The day will conclude with the presentation of trophies.
Over the weekend, most of the participants and their companions will spend the night in Lloret de Mar and around 5,000 people are expected to pass through the town’s football pitches.
AFIA World Cup Spain 2024
AFIA, the world’s largest senior football organisation, has once again chosen Lloret de Mar as the only venue in Spain to host the AFIA Cup Espanha 2024, which will feature 23 teams from Brazil, 2 teams from the United States and 4 local teams, with a total of 900 people including players, coaching staff and accompanying persons from different Brazilian provinces such as Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Manaus and Recife, as well as Miami, who will spend 7 days in Lloret de Mar. During the days of the competition, sporting activities are also organised for the participants and their companions, and the event culminates with the closing ceremony at the Lloret Theatre, with the Festa dos Campeões (Champions’ Festival).
On the other hand, since 20 May, Lloret de Mar has also been hosting the “Favafutsal Euskadi” Intercontinental Futsal Cup, with more than 100 participants from Colombia, Australia, Libya, Kazakhstan and France.
Almost 83,000 people travelled to Lloret in 2023 motivated by sports tourism, and football is the discipline that accounts for most sports stays and events in the destination, with a total of 14,301 footballers training or taking part in events at the town’s 3 municipal football pitches.
