The Costa Blanca Cup resisted and kept going. Since its birth in 1994, it has only stopped, as has dramatically happened in all sectors, in the dark 2020 hit by the global coronavirus pandemic. The organization, Tour Sport Promociones Deportivas, working for several decades to promote sport, within the framework of soccer and futsal in the chaos of the Costa Blanca Cup, or the Benidorm Half in the field of running, or the Benidorm Chess Open in chess, reactivated the movement of the wheel of sports experiences and the focus of tourism, seeking to add. And it effectively returned in 2021 after that pandemic parenthesis, greatly adjusting participation, but 2022 is presented as a return and improvement to pre-Covid-2019 figures in terms of diversity of nationalities.
The total, when new participating teams can still be confirmed, is from the competition of teams belonging to 16 different countries: Uganda, Portugal, Mexico, Jamaica, Iceland, Northern Ireland, England, France, the United States, Egypt, Canada, Brazil, Bahrain, Belgium, Australia and obviously Spain. Five continents, then, are represented.
A total of 109 clubs will compete, 36 being foreigners, which will leave a participation of 265 teams between men’s, women’s and adapted football categories. This will result in a football experience for more than 4,000 participants, meaning a remarkable generation of sports tourism and overnight stays over the course of a week in the area. The Costa Blanca Cup added, adds and will continue to add.
“From the organization itself we have already reserved 24,000 overnight stays, plus hints from family members that there will be during the week to coincide with their children’s matches. All this generates a great return that is economically beneficial for the city”, says Fernando Brotons, CEO of Tour Sport Promociones Deportivas.
The international summer youth soccer tournament par excellence in Spain and one of the main ones in Europe is still in the process of being organized for a new edition next July. It will reach the 28th edition in football and the 17th in futal. In both cases, the championships will begin on July 3 and will end on the 8th of the same month in the case of futsal and a day later, on the 9th, in football.
The tournament structure will remain F-8 categories for women (G12) and men (B12, B11, B10, B8), and football for women (G19, G16, G14) and men (B19, B17, B16). , B15, B14, B13). The competition system will be groups in league mode with a minimum participation of four games and then a final phase (A and B). The top-quality football fields are presented with natural grass or artificial turf pitches, and the refereeing team comes from national and international federations. Registrations can be made through the following page: https://www.costablancacup.com/es/Register.
In the case of the Costa Blanca Futsal Cup, the competition system is also set up with groups in league mode and participation in at least four matches and final phases in both female (G, G16, G14) and male (B19, B16 , B14, B12, B10, B8). Registration route: https://www.costablancafutsalcup.com/es/Register.
On the other hand, the tournament will also continue betting on the Inclusive, which in fact was awarded in 2021 in both the soccer and futsal modalities in the Emprén Esport awards of the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation, which are also projected for this next edition of 2022.
In July 2021, the 27th edition of the tournament organized by Tour-Sport Promociones Deportivas concluded after a marathon day with 14 finals in the CBC and 5 in the Futsal CBC. The Madrid Panthers National Team, in the women’s category, and the AD Villa de Madrid, in the men’s category, Best Clubs of the Costa Blanca Cup 2021, whose ambassador was the goalkeeper of the Spanish soccer team and FC Barcelona, Sandra Paños. On the other hand, the Best Club in the futsal tournament was Ciudad de Móstoles.
In total, 19 finals were played (14 in football and 5 in futsal), vibrant, intense, committed, putting the icing on an event that brought together a total of 174 teams for a week, with more than 2,100 participants, representing four countries (Spain, United States, Belgium and France), and generating more than 10,000 direct overnight stays.
