Wakatake was the winner of this 2024 edition of Pre-MICFootball after a great final against CE Banyoles (0-2). 

The tournament prior to the 22nd edition of MICFootball has had the participation of six children’s teams (U14) in BanyolesThe Miquel Coromina i Morató stadium in Banyoles was the venue this afternoon for the Pre-MICFootball, a tournament that served to warm up our engines for the 22nd edition of the MICFootball international youth football tournament (MIC – Mediterranean International Cup), which will start tomorrow and it will be played in 40 towns of the Costa Brava (Girona). The winner was Wakatake, who beat Club Esportiu Banyoles in the final by 0-2. This one-day championship brought together a total of six teams.

The two host teams, Club Esportiu Banyoles and Atlètic Club Banyoles, have shared the experience with four more clubs: Wakatake and JP Select from Japan, EF Real América from Peru and La Liga Academy UAE from Dubai. All of them, in the children’s category (U14). The awards ceremony was attended by the mayor of Banyoles, Miquel Noguer, and the director of the Catalan Football Federation, Carles Mallart. Third place in the Pre-MICFootball has been awarded to La Liga Academy UAE, who beat JP Select by 0 to 1.

 

All day today, the 21 hotels spread throughout the territory of the Costa Brava have welcomed the teams from all over the world. The volunteers have welcomed all the teams that, in this year’s record edition, come from 39 different countries.

England, Chile, United States, Japan… One more edition, the international presence of MICFootball will be made up of a luxury poster. Reference teams in world football will meet one more year on the Costa Brava to compete in what aims to be the best edition in their history. More than 8,000 players from 235 different clubs will color the 40 towns and the 56 fields.

MICFootball is not only an opportunity for sports development, it is also a seat of diversity that unites people from different cultures and countries of the world, all of them under the international language of football.

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MICIntegra is an inclusive football tournament that promotes values such as motivation and friendship through sport. For a decade it has been played at MICFootball during a whole day in which the illusion and dreams have more protagonism than the ball. This year we celebrate its 10th anniversary, which comes loaded with several new features that we will explain below.

Competition system and teams

The format of the games is 8-a-side and the matches have a duration of 10 minutes per half. The competition will be made up of a total of 18 teams that will fight to reach the respective finals: Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

The tournament will be played throughout Saturday, March 30 and not on Friday, as usual in the past years. In addition, MICIntegra, which was traditionally held only in Vidreres, will be also played in Palamós, where the finals will be held on the same afternoon. As the main novelty, Esport3 will boradcast live and for the first time the final of the gold category, which will take place at 4pm in the Estadi de Palamós. On the other hand, the finals of the silver and bronze categories will be played at the Palamós Annex.

The 18 participating teams are:

• Abadessenc Pro
• AE Badalonès
• Baix Empordà Specials
• CE Mont Ras
• Club Atletisme Garrotxa
• Els Gurbins
• Europa Acidh
• FC Taina Sabadell Nord
• Fundació Esportiva Grama
• Fundació Futbol Base Reus
• Girona EFS Ramon Noguera
• INSERCOR Fundació UE Cornellà
• Junts i Endavant Esportiu Banyoles
• RCD Espanyol
• Support Girona
• UE Balafia Pibody
• UE Figueres
• Units Terres de l’Ebre

MICINTEGRA SCHEDULE

 

Reaching 10 editions would not be possible without the help of the volunteers who make it possible and the support of Fundació La Caixa, which shares with us all the values on which this tournament is based.

The MICFootball, a tournament recognized by the Catalan Football Federation, has decided to adhere to the following protocols established by the federative body:

• PROTOCOL FOR ACTION AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE
• CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENCE PROTECTION PROTOCOL

In this way, the tournament aims to take another step in its commitment to continuous improvement to always meet the highest standards in terms of integrity, ethics, professionalism, compliance, and social responsibility.

The president of MICFootball, Juanjo Rovira Berengué, will be the person responsible for receiving and addressing any incident regarding the two protocols. Any eventuality must be communicated immediately to the email info@micsports.es 

The 22nd edition of MICFootball is just around the corner. From March 26th to 31st, 412 teams will live a unique experience on the Costa Brava. A total of 1,012 matches will be played over five days on 56 different fields in the Girona regions.

And how can the matches be watched on television?

MICFootball 2024 will have, as usual, extensive television coverage. The tournament has reached agreements with national networks such as Gol Play, TV3 and Movistar so that matches can be watched from home. And of course, the MICFootball YouTube channel will be active during the week.

The great news of this edition is that all the matches of the final phase, starting with the quarterfinals, will be watched on our YouTube channel. All matches from all categories. From the quarterfinals to the grand finals. A step forward that the tournament takes to give greater coverage and notoriety to the competition.

This is how you can follow MICFootball 2024 on TV

 

OPENING CEREMONY

The opening ceremony will be held at the Estadi de Vilatenim (Figueres) and will feature two matches. At 10:00, UE Figueres – Liverpool (U16) and at 11:45 FC Barcelona – CP Sarrià (U14). Both matches will be broadcast on the tournament’s official YouTube channel and on Televisió de Catalunya (TV3).

GROUP STAGE

The Group Stage of the tournament will be broadcast on our YouTube channel, always on demand. To watch their matches, teams must contract the broadcast service of their matches from the company NETStreamTV (netsport.tv@gmail.com).

INTERNATIONAL DAY

On Friday, March 29, in the afternoon, Palafrugell will host the International Day of the tournament. The round of 16 of the U14 category can be seen on TV3 and our YouTube channel.

U12A CATEGORY

As is usual in recent editions, the junior category of 11-a-side football (U12A) can be followed on the GOL Play channel and our YouTube channel starting on Friday (that is, the entire final phase).

FINAL PHASE

For the first time ever, all matches in all categories of the final phase of the tournament, starting at 1/4, will be watched live through our YouTube channel.

FINALS

The title matches will be seen again on different television channels. GOL Play, TV3 and Movistar + will cover the MICFootball 2024 finals. In addition, as it could not be otherwise, the tournament’s YouTube channel will broadcast them live.

 

A tournament where all the football activity is concentrated in 5 days needs a platform that allows everyone to be informed at all times of what is happening on the 56 fields of the Costa Brava. 1,012 matches will be played in the 22nd edition of MICFootball and we don’t want you to miss any of them.

At MICLive you can check the calendars, the match times and also follow minute by minute what is happening in any of the matches that are being played at that moment. Follow your favorite team, your rivals and don’t miss anything that happens in the tournament.

MICLive available for all devices 

MICLive is now available on both Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as in web format live.micfootball.com

In this link we explain you how to use it and download it!

 

Banyoles will once again host Pre-MICFootball, which will take place next Tuesday, March 26th, at the Miquel Coromina i Morató Stadium.

This event will serve one more year to warm up the engines of the 22nd edition of the MICFootball grassroots tournament (MIC – Mediterranean International Cup), which will be played in 40 municipalities in the Girona counties between March 27 and 31, coinciding with the Easter. The Pre-MICFootball is a one-day tournament that will feature junior (U14) clubs from various countries.

They will coincide with the two host teams, Club Esportiu Banyoles and Atlètic Club Banyoles, who will repeat the experience of recent years. This 2024 will be joined by Wakatake and JP Select from Japan, EF Real América from Peru and La Liga Academy UAE from Dubai.

Calendar and matches

Next Tuesday, March 26th, from four in the afternoon (4 p.m.), the matches of the first phase will begin, each lasting 25 minutes. The six participating teams will be divided into two groups. The first matches of the Pre-MIC will be CE Banyoles – JP Select and Atlético Banyoles – Wakatake.

Once this phase is over, the top finishers in each group will play in the final, scheduled for 7:45 p.m. The runners-up will face each other a little earlier (19:00) in the match for third and fourth place.

The 22nd edition of MICFootball was presented today in the Hall of Sessions of the Diputació de Girona and it did so with the presence of Aleix García, footballer of the first team of Girona FC and one of the ambassadors of the tournament.

Miquel Noguer defined as “a good symptom” the record numbers presented by this 2024 edition. “This means that there are more people who want to come to the MIC and more municipalities and clubs who want to get involved. The tournament it will have 8,000 players and this translates into a significant sporting and above all economic impact. MICFootball is an excellent ambassador for the Girona and Costa Brava brand so that it is projected and known around the world thanks to its media power.” The Diputació de Girona has been with the championship since day one and, for now, has guaranteed its support until the 2026 edition.

Aleix Garcia, godfather of this edition, reviewed the current situation of his team and recalled his participation in the MIC in 2014, which he played wearing the Villarreal shirt. “Despite losing the final I experienced in Palamós, the tournament allowed me to live a very beautiful experience. It is a week that allows you to enjoy thanks to a spectacular organization. It is an honor to be part of it and to be a sponsor and I I remember the nerves I experienced in the days leading up to the week of the tournament.” After recalling his footballing beginnings and underlining the support of his parents, he also assessed the match that Girona will play on Saturday at the Getafe field and the options of playing in European competition next season: “We are very close, but we are aware that every day is very complicated. We face the next game with the greatest enthusiasm, even though we know it will be a tough game because their style of play does not help us much.”

The event also had the participation of the deputy delegate of the Spanish Government in Girona, Pere Parramon; the president of Agrupació Esportiva MICFootball, David Bellver; the president of MICFootball, Juanjo Rovira; the head of the Territorial Representation of Sport in Girona, Anna Julià; and the director of institutional banking at CaixaBank in Girona, Ferran Llach. Mayors and councilors of the municipalities that will host the championship, sponsors and collaborators also attended an event that served to publicize all the details of this edition.

MICFootball will start the 22nd edition next Wednesday, March 27th with an opening ceremony that will take place in Figueres.

The Opening Ceremony will start at 10:00am (CET) and can be followed on Televisió de Catalunya and on our official YouTube channel. In the U16 category, UE Figueres will receive Liverpool FC in their own stadium.

At the end of this first match will begin the traditional flags parade, with 39 countries represented and 412 teams, more than ever in the tournament. Immediately afterwards, the group of dancers Dance Me will give their welcome with a performance that promises to be spectacular.

At 11:45am will start U14 category game FC Barcelona – CP Sarrià which will close the Opening Ceremony of MICFootball 2024. At halftime we will unveil the winner of the 12th edition of the Dani Montesinos Award, a sports journalism contest that commemorates the figure of the journalist who died in 2012 due to a traffic accident. In addition to the recognition, the reward is an internship at GOL Play TV channel.

At the end of the second match, the teams will return to the hotels to have lunch, rest, and prepare for their respective first matches, which will be played on the afternoon of March 27.

Access to the stadium

All teams participating in MICFootball 2024, whether or not they are staying with the organization (including their companions), have their access guaranteed to the Stadium as long as they have confirmed their willingness to attend the event. The rest of the public will have to wait for capacity availability to be able to access it.