Barcelona Soccer School - High Performance camp 2025

Overview

• Location: Barcelona, Spain
• Ages and genders: 6-21 (boys and girls)
• Levels: Advanced/Elite

Academy / Club history

The Barcelona High-performance Academy was founded in 1978 by the ex professional footballer, Francisco Javier Marcet, who played for major clubs like Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Espanyol, as well as the Spanish National Team. Marcet’s ultimate goal was always to open his own academy where young athletes could learn to play without neglecting their education or their own personal development.

With over 40 years of experience, the Barcelona High-performance Soccer Academy has trained and prepared countless professional soccer players for success. Academy alumni include David Soria (goalkeeper of Getafe FC), Óliver Torres (central midfielder and forward for Sevilla FC), and Alvaro Fernández (goalkeeper for Málaga FC and the Spanish National team).

Training

• Skill level: Advanced/Elite
• Other soccer education features: Audiovisual training, New technologies
• Students per training group: 12 - 14 students
• Training language: Spanish
• Training intensity: 5/5

The Barcelona High-performance Academy offers a variety of summer camp programs for their students. The High-performance Program is for older students from 14-21 years old with extensive experience. The Full-training Program is for younger students with less experience but a similar burning passion for soccer. They also offer an all-girls program and a goalkeeper specific training program.

Soccer players in the High-performance Program work on fine-tuning their technique, improving their game intelligence, and speed of play. Soccer players in the Full-training Program work on improving their technique and learning the basics of game intelligence.

That being said, all programs follow the academy’s famous training methodology, the pedagogical method. The pedagogical method is based on the latest neuroscience and consists of 11 steps. The first steps include identifying the skills, knowledge, and values that professional soccer clubs will look for within the next 10 years. Then, the academy assesses their students’ strengths and weaknesses and devises a plan to develop their players’ skills, knowledge, and values. The ultimate goal is to develop their students into attractive candidates for professional soccer clubs in the future.

Training Facilities

• Training surface: Artificial
• Additional training facilities: Gym, swimming pool
• Quality: 4/5

Participants in all programs at the Barcelona High-performance Academy attend their training sessions on the academy’s own training grounds which features several artificial soccer fields. Training facilities also include a gym and a swimming pool which coaches use for additional off-field training.

*The training facilities were recently renovated during the summer of 2020.

Camp Schedule

The following schedule demonstrates a typical day at camp. The exact camp schedule will most likely vary from day to day.

Accommodation

• Name of facilities: Ágora University Student Residence
• Location: 15 minutes by foot from the training facilities
• Type of rooms: 2 - 4 students per room in pull-out beds
• Bathroom: Private
• Quality of accommodation: 4/5

Participants in all summer camp programs at the Barcelona High-performance Academy find accommodation in a comfortable high-quality university student residence, located 15 minutes by foot from the academy’s training facilities.

Since most university students go home for the summer, participants in the Barcelona High-performance Summer Soccer Camps have the student residence almost entirely to themselves.

The Ágora University Student Residence has double and quadruple rooms which means rooms are shared between two and four participants. The rooms are small yet comfortable, and each room has its own private bathroom to be shared with roommates.

In addition, the student residence has many common areas that participants are able to enjoy during their free time. Common areas include a lounge, a game room, a TV room, and a heated swimming pool. The residence also provides free Wi-Fi for the students.

Students have their breakfast and dinner at the student residence, whereas lunch and afternoon snacks are served at the academy’s diner.

Prices and Dates

The official rate of this program is determined in EUROS so the final amount in other currencies may vary slightly due to currency fluctuation.

The official rate of this program is determined in EUROS so the final amount in other currencies may vary slightly due to currency fluctuation.

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Starting Dates

Improved booking conditions for all camps

This 2025 make your reservation more easily and with less risk

• We´ve lowered the deposit required to reserve your camp to just 500€
• Free cancellation until March 1st
• Money-back guarantee within 10 days
• Optional insurances

*Please note that if a visa is required to attend camp, it will be necessary to pay the total amount of the program

Extra Services

You can purchase one of the extra services below at an additional cost.

Camp Insurance

We offer two insurance options based on your needs:

• Cancellation and Interruption Insurance: This option allows you to get your money back if you have to cancel or interrupt the camp for any justified reason, including injury or illness of participants both before and during the camp (the policy contains 35 different causes for justified cancellations).
• Travel/Medical Insurance: With this insurance policy, you will be covered for medical assistance abroad and possible expenses caused by health-related issues, as well as other contingencies such as lost luggage or an unforeseen flight change.

  Download the following PDF to learn more about each insurance options terms and conditions, coverage features, and price.

  Camp Insurance
  

  Transfer Service:

  There are two types of transfer services available that we´ll detail for you below:

• Standard transfer service: the camp offers an optional transfer service for participants who request it from the nearest airport to the residence (or vice versa). Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices for this service.
• Special transfer with additional unaccompanied minor service: participants who fly to camp alone and have contracted the unaccompanied minor service with their airline must hire this special transfer with accompaniment so that the child isn´t left alone in the airport. Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices of this service.

Contact Ertheo for prices and additional information.

• Nearest airport / train station: 
• Barcelona Airport—El Prat (BNC)
• Sants Station

Transportation to the camp (flights/trains) is not included in the price of our programs.