Banyoles will once again be the venue for the Pre-MICFootball, a competition that will take place on Tuesday, April 15th at the Camp d’Esports Municipal Vell.
This event will once again serve to warm up the engines of the 23rd edition of the MICFootball (MIC-Mediterranean International Cup) grassroots football tournament, which will be played in 43 municipalities in the Girona region between April 16th and 20th, coinciding with Easter. The Pre-MICFootball is a one-day tournament in which cadet category clubs (U15 and U16) from various countries will participate. They will coincide with the two host teams, Club Esportiu Banyoles and Atlètic Club Banyoles, who will repeat the experience of recent years. This 2025 will be joined by TSV Bayer Dormagen from Germany, BD FC from South Korea, Eastern FC from the United States and Wakatake from Japan.
Maite Colomer, director of MICFootball, states that “we are very happy to be able to collaborate for another edition with Banyoles, which years ago already had the initiative to offer the opportunity to play a small preliminary tournament to those teams that arrive with more days of margin and that need to compete before the MIC begins”. She adds that “it is a preliminary and positive competition for all parties, which only lasts one day and will feature the two host teams and others from all over the world”.
For Miquel Noguer, mayor of Banyoles, “the PreMIC is a stimulus for the players of our city and the entire region. We are very pleased to be able to enjoy it for another year because it gives a helping hand to a municipality like ours, which is further away from the coast and which, a priori, is more difficult to host MIC matches. It is a help for those teams that come from a long way away, that arrive earlier in our country and that have the need to train, play and compete”.
On Tuesday, April 15, from 4 pm, 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-MICFootball will be Atlètic Banyoles-TSV Bayer Dormagen and CE Banyoles-Eastern FC. Once this phase is over, the top finishers in each group will face off in the final, scheduled for 7:15 p.m.
