23–28 MARCH 2027 — PALAMÓS, SPAIN
AGES U12–U19 · GIRLS & BOYS
stay, entry & ground transport · flights are yours, everything after the airport is ours
THE TRIP
Easter week on the Costa Brava belongs to youth football. MIC Football reaches its 25th edition in 2027, and for six days more than three hundred teams from over forty countries play close to nine hundred matches on pitches spread along the coast between Lloret de Mar and Roses — with the finals in the stadiums at Palamós and Figueres.
This is the tournament the big academies come to. Sides from the top English, Spanish, German and Italian clubs play in the same categories as touring grassroots clubs, and the draw does not separate them: a U14 group can put your club against a professional academy on the Wednesday and a side from South America on the Thursday. Every team plays three group matches, then goes into either the final phase or the consolation bracket, so nobody is done after two games. A dedicated inclusive division runs alongside for players with disabilities.
The week has a shape to it. Teams arrive on the Tuesday and pick up the official tournament shirt in their welcome pack, the opening ceremony fills the stadium in Figueres on the Wednesday morning, group games run through Thursday, the knockouts on Friday, and the finals take over the weekend. Each category is based in one of the coast towns, so your matches are played around where you are staying rather than across half of Catalonia.
Around the football there is the Costa Brava itself — beaches at the end of the road, Girona twenty minutes inland, and Barcelona an easy day trip. We handle the entry, the beds and every transfer once you land, so the club turns up and plays.
WHAT'S IN THE TRIP
READY WHEN YOU ARE
stay, entry & ground transport · flights are yours, everything after the airport is ours
WATCH
The organiser’s film of the 2026 edition — the grounds, the sides your club would be drawn against, and the coast they play it on.
Footage supplied by the organiser.
GETTING YOU THERE
Everyone flies to this one — Girona is twenty minutes from the coast and Barcelona just over an hour — so the trip starts at arrivals. We collect the group, take you to where you are staying, and run every transfer to the pitches and back across the week. Book your flights however suits the families — from the moment you land it is ours.
Built around your group, your dates and your numbers — tell us those and we price it.
WHILE YOU'RE HERE
The tournament is the reason to come. Tell us what your squad fancies between matches and we build it into the trip, with the transport and the timings worked around the football.
2 ACTIVITIES
CAMP NOU TOUR AND MUSEUM
A day trip down the coast to Barcelona's stadium — the museum with the trophies and the shirts, then the walk out through the tunnel to the pitchside where the squad can stand where the teams line up. It is the one afternoon every player on the tour has already asked about, so it earns its place on the itinerary early.
GIRONA FC MATCHDAY AT MONTILIVI
Girona's ground sits twenty minutes inland from the coast, and when the fixture list lines up the squad takes in a full La Liga match from the stands — a compact stadium where the noise carries and the football is close. Kick-off times move with the broadcaster, so Revel confirms this once the fixture is fixed and builds the day around it.
2 ACTIVITIES
PLAY A FOOTBALL FIXTURE
Revel arranges a friendly against a club side from the area on a spare afternoon, so the squad gets an extra game that sits outside the tournament draw. It depends on finding a willing opponent who is free that day, and we confirm it once the fixtures are out.
SESSION WITH A LOCAL CATALAN CLUB
Revel arranges a training session with a grassroots club on the coast, so the squad trains alongside players who grew up in the Catalan game — short passing, quick movement, keeping the ball on the floor. A different accent on the football before the tour moves on, and usually the session the coaches talk about most.
7 ACTIVITIES
BARCELONA CITY DAY
A full day in Barcelona by coach — the Sagrada Família, a walk down Las Ramblas to the harbour, and time on the beachfront at Barceloneta before the drive back up the coast. Revel keeps the group together with a fixed meeting point and a set timetable, so coaches get a proper day out without herding forty players round a city.
CAMÍ DE RONDA COAST WALK
The old coastguards' path that runs along the cliffs between the coves — from Palamós round to Calella de Palafrugell is the classic stretch, with pine woods, hidden beaches and the sea on one side the whole way. A recovery-day walk that doubles as the best scenery on the tour, finished with an ice cream on the front.
DALÍ THEATRE-MUSEUM, FIGUERES
Half an hour up the road in Figueres, the museum Salvador Dalí built for himself — the eggs on the roof, the courtyard with the car, and rooms that reward a squad that thinks museums are boring. It is an easy morning that sends a group home with something to talk about beyond the football.
GIRONA OLD TOWN WALK
A walk through Girona's old quarter — the coloured houses along the river, the cathedral steps, and a full circuit of the medieval walls with the city laid out below. It is compact enough to do in a couple of hours, and coaches tend to pair it with the matchday at Montilivi for a full Girona day.
KARTING AT LLORET DE MAR
An outdoor kart circuit a few minutes from the Lloret hotels, run as a squad race with heats and a final — the reliable evening activity when the football is done and the players still have energy to burn. Open year-round, so it works for an Easter tour as well as a summer one.
TENPIN BOWLING
A relaxed evening off the pitch at a local bowling alley, a good way to close out a day of festival football.
TOSSA DE MAR OLD TOWN AND BEACH
A walled medieval town sitting right on the sand, with the castle walls to walk along, the lighthouse at the top and a sweep of beach below. Squads use it for a half-day off — the walk up for the view and the photo, then the beach for a game of football or a swim if the weather is on side.
TELL US WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO DO
A line or two is enough. We come back with a full itinerary for your group, with the football at the centre of it.
THE FORMAT
The tournament runs eight boys' categories from U12 to U19 and a girls' category at U16. Everything is eleven-a-side apart from U12B, which plays seven-a-side — so a club with a younger squad can choose the format that suits them at U12. There is no U17: the categories step from U16 to U18.
Every team plays three group matches, then the group table sends it into either the final phase — knockouts through to a final in the stadium at Palamós or Figueres — or the consolation phase, so the week does not end early for anyone. Categories are set by birth year rather than school year, and the tournament publishes a short list of exceptions each edition — check both against your squad before you enter.
| AGE GROUP | BORN | FORMAT |
|---|---|---|
| U19 | 2008 or later | 11-a-side |
| U18 | 2009 or later | 11-a-side |
| U16 | 2011 or later | 11-a-side |
| U15 | 2012 or later | 11-a-side |
| U14 | 2013 or later | 11-a-side |
| U13 | 2014 or later | 11-a-side |
| U12A | 2015 or later | 11-a-side |
| U12B | 2015 or later | 7-a-side |
| F16 (girls) | 2011 or later | 11-a-side |
Players per side, playing times and formats as set for this tournament — your squad can be bigger, with subs rotating in and out. Cup count per age group depends on entries.
WHERE YOU STAY
Choose a stay that suits your team's style.
Your club stays together in a local 3-star hotel near the tournament — the middle ground that suits most groups. Rooms come in a mix of twins, doubles, triples and quads, so players, coaches and parents are all sorted. Want something simpler, or a step up? We can quote 2-star to 4-star too.
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EVERYTHING HANDLED
“It was a really great weekend. The festival was really well organised and we had a blast. Thank you to you and the team.”
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