Although the start of the championship was scheduled for last week, after the announcement made by AEMET, warning of "cold drop", the beginning of the League was postponed for this weekend, Saturday October 27, where the definitive kick-off to the XXVI edition of the Local Football League Base League of Cartagena with the act of "kick-off" of the new season in the Municipal Field of Los Molinos Marfagones.
In this new edition, 229 teams and 43 registered clubs will participate: Cartagena FC, FC Cartagena Foundation, EF, EFCD Dolorense, EF Narval, CD Naval, EMF Fountain Alamo-Gesa, CD La Palma-Codelpa, CD Minera, CD La Soledad of Molinos Marfagones, Los Belones CF, EF San Ginés, CD Lapuerta, AD La Vaguada, EF Nueva Cartagena, CD Juvenia Pozo Estrecho, AD Barrio Peral, CD San ​​Cristóbal, CD Mediterraneo, Albujón CD, Hacienda del Alamo Sport CF, CD La Manga, CD Maristas, EF Esperanza, EF La Aljorra, CD Santiago, AD Franciscans, CDEstay, EF Santa Ana, EFAlumbres, CD El Algar, EF Torre Pacheco, EF Los Alcazares, EMFB Pinatar, EF Dolores de Pacheco, Veterans Dolores de Pacheco, EMFB Balsicas, AD La Union, AD Portman, Coto Villalba, Atco.
Corvera, Mar Menor CF, Evangelical FC and CD La Isla.
In total, more than 4,000 participants have registered, between players - from 4 to 18 years old - and technicians.
A championship referring to the national level that has been praised by many institutions, developing an activity parallel to the federated competition, where they have room from the bottle category to the cadet, all the clubs of minor social nature, with a marked pedagogical treatment of the competition through school sports and where a female category is also promoted since seasons ago.
Since the integration of the championship in the support of the Football Federation, it is using a software with its latest generation mobile application for the development of licenses, calendars, reviews, rankings, scorers, penalties, and all necessary information, at the digital, using a phone, tablet or computer.
In addition, with the agreement signed, the Football Federation contributes its own health care, and all fields have a defibrillator in their facilities to attend any cardiac emergency.
Likewise, the legal coverage of bases and disciplinary regime have been expanded to cover the Committee and Competition Judge, to ensure the proper development of the championship, in terms of sanctions.
In addition, there are still federated arbitrations in the modalities of football 5, football 7 and football 8, with the novelty of the inclusion of football 11 in the children's category.
The competition will continue with the different ball sizes and playing fields.
They continue betting on the pedagogical nature of the initiation categories (bottle and pacifier) ​​where the results are not computed to obtain the classifications.
It will continue to bet strongly with the campaign of fair play and sportsmanship of all participating teams.
In collaboration with the School of Trainers and other institutions, monitor, coach, coordinator and other disciplines are provided for all the technicians of the participating clubs, who must be qualified to lead the different teams of the championship.
On the other hand, when the championship is framed in the regional school sport program, the Autonomous Community provides school insurance for sporting accidents, of the participants in it.
In short, it is a competition where the City Council continues to subsidize registration, competition licenses, arbitration and insurance, in collaboration with the Football Federation, Autonomous Community, Arbitration Delegation of Cartagena, FC Cartagena Foundation and COLEF of the Region of Murcia .
This championship is organized by the Department of Sports of the City of Cartagena and has the support of the Football Federation of the Region of Murcia, General Directorate of Sports of the Autonomous Community, the Technical Committee of Referees of Cartagena, the Association of Clubs of the Region of Cartagena (AFCT), the COLEF of the Region of Murcia, and the Cartagena Football Club Foundation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena