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MARATHON – ATHENE – GREECE

COUNTRIES WHO PARTICIPATE

Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-I-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, 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 2025 IN GREECE

For our next project in 2025, we proudly present MARATHON! This place, famous for his battle against the Persians and the run that is named after the distance to Athens, gives you already the key why we chose this destination. Only 45min and you’re in the heart of Athens, the cradle of Europe.

This area is famous among the citizens of Athens. It’s a humble touristic place for tourists from Athens and abroad. Quit, but fantastic situated to reach easily and swiftly the capital.

It was not so easy to find hotels available to host big groups of people, since the month of May is already ‘high season’ for Greece! But we found at last 2 hotels to host your team.

The big 4**** GOLDEN COAST hotel & bungalow resort at the north and the more modest 3*** MARATHON BEACH resort at the south of the village. Both hotels are situated direct at the beach shore.

The 11-a-side sport field is to be found in the village NEA MAKRI. Both hotels are 2.3 km from the sport stadium. By car it’s only a swift drive of 5 minutes. This full size football field has an artificial grass soil. We can host 4 fields with futsal size, to play 5-a-side football .

ATHENS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS at 22 km, so a 30 minutes’ drive.

When you look for some interesting to see on your trip:

0 km	THE STATUES OF THE EGYPTION GODS next to the hotel Golden Coast 4*
7 km	MARATHON 7 km With the Stadium where every year the famous marathon start + the Marathon Museum, the statue, hill and colon connected with the battle of Marathon + museum
38 km	ATHENS HISTORICAL CENTRE With the National Museum of Greece, Acropolis, Parthenon, Temple of Zeus etc.
66 km	TEMPLE OF POSSEIDON AT CAPE SOUNION
180 km	DELPHI CORINTH With the ancient ruins of MYCENE, the amphitheater of EPIDAURUS or the epic channel of Corinth…

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 too 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 Spain, Portugal , Italy, Greece and 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!

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