El Collell from the air: the pitches, the sanctuary and the accommodation on the same grounds
Catalonia, Spain · 90 minutes from Barcelona

Thirty players.
One place.

They sleep, eat, train and play on the same grounds. No coach to catch after breakfast, no head count before every journey, no player left behind in a hotel lobby.

532 teams · 13 countries
532teams played in 2026
6pitches, all on site
5matches guaranteed
90minutes from Barcelona

What the others cannot do

Every big tournament in Spain puts your squad in a seaside hotel and drives them to pitches somewhere else. That is not a detail — that is your week. It is the coach at eight in the morning, the register before every journey, the two players who went back for a shirt.

Here the beds, the dining room and the zip line are on the same grounds as the pitches — six of them, two on natural grass and four artificial, plus five small courts for 3×3. You walk everywhere. It is the difference between a trip you spend managing and one you spend watching.

Two of the small 3x3 courts, fenced, with the valley behind
The dining hall at a meal, full
A match in play on one of the pitches

When, and who plays

Six weekends, Friday to Sunday. Each age group has its own.

  • 14–16 May 2027Boys born 2019 and 2020
  • 21–23 May 2027Boys born 2018
  • 28–30 May 2027Boys born 2017
  • 4–6 June 2027Girls born 2013 to 2018
  • 11–13 June 2027Boys born 2016
  • 18–20 June 2027Boys born 2015

Boys and girls, roughly under-8 to under-14. Three days and two nights, five matches guaranteed, group stage and knockout. If you are planning a football tour to Spain for the 2027 season, this is the weekend to build it around.

The May weekend falls on Whitsun — Pentecost is 16 May 2027 — which is a school holiday in Germany, the Netherlands and much of northern Europe.

Where they sleep, what they eat

The two questions a club asks before it asks about football.

The rooms

The squad sleeps in bunk rooms, together, with bathrooms on the corridor. Rooms with a private bathroom for your staff are there if you ask for them. Sheets and towels are provided, so nobody packs bedding for a flight.

The meals

Three meals a day, self-service buffet, eaten in the same building they sleep in. Breakfast is a hot counter — eggs, bacon, sausages — next to the churros and the pastries, and there is as much of it as a squad of thirteen-year-olds needs. Water is on the table.

Diets and allergies

Vegetarian food and allergies are catered for, and we ask for the list when you enter rather than on the day you arrive. Tell us what a player cannot eat and it is dealt with in the kitchen, not at the table.

A room made up, with towels out and a bunk against the wall
Breakfast on the counter: sausages, bacon and fried eggs
Churros, croissants and pastries on the same counter
The pool and its slides, between matches The high ropes course in the pines Archery, run by the monitors Ezzyrollers on the court

Football, and the rest of it

Half a day of matches and half a day of activities, every day, run by the qualified monitors who work here — not by your staff. Your coaches watch football and then go to bed. That is why the players ask to come back, and why the club books again.

What they actually do: laser tag, the adventure course, the zip line, pedal karts, archery, bubble football, human table football, the water slide, water games, ezzyrollers, the haunted tunnel and the pools. All of it inside the grounds, all of it included, none of it an excursion you pay for on the day.

And the grounds are not a sports centre with a hostel attached: there are woods to walk in, pools with slides, horses and a farmyard of animals. A player with a free hour has somewhere to spend it that is not a hotel corridor.

The weekend is the middle of the trip

Nobody flies to another country to sleep two nights.

Before and after

Extra nights on the same full board. Training pitches and sessions. A friendly against a local club.

Getting here

Barcelona is an hour and a half away by road and Girona airport just 30 minutes, both with low-cost flights from most of Europe. We arrange the transfer.

Days out

The Costa Brava beaches, Barcelona and its football, PortAventura. Arranged on request, never assumed.

And what is around it

The Costa Brava starts forty minutes from the pitches and Barcelona is an hour and a half. A club that has flown here usually wants a day of something else, and we arrange it: the coast, the city, PortAventura.

Calella de Palafrugell on the Costa Brava
Calella de Palafrugell, Costa Brava
The beach at Barceloneta, Barcelona
Barceloneta, Barcelona
Park Guell in Barcelona
Park Güell, Barcelona

Costa Brava and Park Güell photographs by Jorge Franganillo (CC BY 2.0); Barceloneta by DimiTalen (CC0). Via Wikimedia Commons.

The tournament mascot and a line of players, high fives all round

They ask to come back

That is the whole reason clubs repeat, and the one thing a hotel and a bus cannot sell you.

What it costs

The tournament is €200 per player. That covers the three days: two nights full board, the activities and playing the tournament itself.

It is not the price of your trip, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. A club flying in stays longer than two nights, so the flights, the travel insurance, the drinks and any day out are yours to add — and what you add is what we quote. Send us the flights and we come back with one figure for the whole thing.

The paperwork

Most federations want their permission before a club plays abroad — the English FA asks for its form at least sixty days ahead, and others work the same way. We issue the letter of invitation you need to file it. Ask for it as soon as you have decided; it is the step clubs leave too late.

There is no fixed package

What you need depends on when you land and when you go home, so nothing here is sold off a shelf. A few answers below and we come back with a plan and a price.

Organised by TPE Sport, a Girona-based sports events company running youth tournaments and camps since 2015.

Tell us about your club

A few answers and we can put a plan and a price together. If your flights are not booked yet, say so — most clubs write before they book.

Would rather write yourself? info@tpecup.com