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ALMERIA – ANDALUSIA – SPAIN

COUNTRIES WHO PARTICIPATE

Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-I-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation,
San Marino, Scotland & St Helena Island, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Nations & United States of America.

COPA DEL MAR 2024 IN SPAIN

Since the health of Marc would need extra ordinary measures after the tournament edition in Italy in 2022, we travelled a month before the 2023 edition to a destination that Marc had found.

The area of Retamar/El Toyo is a urbanization that is created by the city of Almeria to host the sport teams for the Mediterranean Games in Spain. After the games the houses have been sold to the citizens (like in the Olympic Games). Only the sport hall and outdoor football field and some enormous golf courts have been kept. At only 4 km from Almeria Airport and 15 km from the historical town of Almeria we found two jewels of hotels. They’re situated, just across the street of the football pitch and at the palmed sized beaches with as their neighbor one of the biggest National Parcs of Spain: Cabo de Gata!
A perfect place to have a tournament.

At an acceptable distance you can the airports:

AIRPORT ALMERIA at 4 km.
AIRPORT MALAGA at 2.5h drive.
AIRPORT MURCIA/CARTAGENA at 2.5h drive.

When you look for some interesting things to see:

ALMERIA historical old town at 15 km (bus for €1 in front of the hotels)
CABO DE GATA N.P. at 2 km a walk in the National Park
MOJACAR a famous white mountain village at 45 min drive.
TABERNAS the Hollywood scene of Spain 30 min drive.
MALAGA one of the biggest town of the area with the famous Bull Fight Arena at 2 h drive
GRANADA with his famous EL ALAHAMBRA at 1.45h drive.

Welcome to the website of COPA DEL MAR

Details

We organized – for 20 years – the World Police Futsal Tournaments in Belgium. The editions had a massive response until 120 teams – 1500 participants. Even the event was important for a lot of countries we felt it became to big to organize in the way we wanted it.

So we re-invented the structure: a nice medium sized tournament with a lot of nationalities, a variety of 3 age categories, a maximum of accepted teams in each category. A event where people (and the organizers) have the time to find old or new friends. Where there is time and space for a chat, free time and interesting things to see. For that reason we made this tournament a ‘travelling tournament’.

COPA DEL MAR offer teams a 5-a-side outdoor tournament on “natural” or “artificial” grass in a country were the sun has a capacity to shine. To keep everybody interested we choose a carrousel of destinations, so we can offer you, outside soccer, the possibility to discover new places.

It all started with sparkling Barcelona – Spain in 2010.
After that we’ve been several times in Portugal , Italy, Greece or Croatia.
If you like to see more about each edition visit RESULTS on this website.

The formula must be successful since we receive every year 500 – 700 visitors.
Football teams and families or supporters. Everyone is welcome!

Covid-19 did prevent the planned editions of 2020 & 2021. But in 2022 we had a relieving edition near sparkling Genova, in beautiful Loano Italy.
For 2023 we had unexpected a X-Large edition in Umag Croatia. It was a fantastic edition, but we will reduce the totals back to the +/- 500-550 expected visitors.

For our next project in 2024, we proudly present ALMERIA at the sunny coast of Andalusia, Spain.
Do you want to be part of THE friendship tournament of Europe?
Be sure to register fast and handle correct our registration rules.
The famous ‘Fair Play’ start with these details.

Players, supporters, families or friends, you’re all welcome to join our family!

We will host you with all of our energy and enthusiasm.

Lisbeth and Marc