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The Spanish Championships for Autonomous Selections begin in school age 2026

The Spanish Championships of Autonomous Selections in school age inaugurate their 2026 calendar with basketball and handball tournaments

During the year 2026, tournaments will be held in 40 sports modalities

  • Within the Team Spain Future programme, the Higher Sports Council (CSD) annually allocates 1,500,000 euros to the organization of the Spanish Championships of Autonomous Selections of School Age (CESA), the main reference of the base sport in our country.


Madrid, January 8, 2026.- The Spanish Championships of Autonomous Selections in school age (CESA) have inaugurated the 2026 season with basketball and handball tournaments, played respectively in Aragon and Catalonia.

Between 3 and 7 January, the Spanish Children’s Championship and basketball cadet brought together around 1,000 players from 76 teams, who have played the different events in the Príncipe Felipe Pavilion in Zaragoza and nine other sports venues in the Aragonese capital. The Valencian Community, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid, by double game, have been the winning selections of this edition.

For its part, different municipalities of the Catalan coast have hosted the CESA 2026 handball, which has had a participation of more than 2,000 players and players belonging to 70 teams. The Sports City of Blanes has once again been the main stage of this edition, which has also had venues in Mataró, Pineda de Mar, Tordera, Malgrat de Mar, Calella and Lloret de Mar. Catalonia dominated the men’s junior and cadet tournaments, while the Canary Islands and Navarre were the winners with their women’s junior and cadet teams, respectively.

The CESA will have tournaments and competitions of 40 sports modalities this year and will be played until next August in fourteen Autonomous Communities and Cities.

This January, basketball and handball competitions will be followed by cross-country athletics. In February it will be the turn of basketball in chair 3x3, swimming, adapted swimming and taekwondo, which will be followed by hockey, alpine skiing, waterpolo, slopestyle and Olympic fights in March. Already in April the tournaments of table tennis, judo and golf will be played, while in May the tournaments of Olympic shooting (plate), softball, track athletics, tetrathlon and weightlifting will arrive.

The month of June will be the most active, with the competitions of rhythmic gymnastics, classical dressage, rugby 7, badminton, chess, orientation, 3x3 basketball, road cycling and parachuting, frontennis, rubber paddle, volleyball, climbing, archery, triathlon and beach handball.

In the CESA 2026 calendar it will come to an end during the months of July and August, with MTB, paralympic and road cycling tests, sprint and paracanoe canoeing, beach volleyball, slalom canoeing and amateur boxing.

 

CSD’s Push to Grassroots Sport

The Higher Sports Council, through its Team Spain Futuro program, annually allocates 1.5 million euros to the organization of the CESA, championships of the highest level of sports in school age and the main meeting point of the base sport of our country.

Last year alone, the CESA gathered more than 17,500 people in their various competitions, in which more than 5,000 medals and 425 trophies were distributed.

The CSD’s assistance is channelled through the Spanish sports federations, which also have a grant of 2,550,000 euros for the national programme of sports technification and promotion within Team España Futuro.