The Fuengirola Sports Department closes an “extraordinary” 2025 with record numbers of participation, investment and sporting events
The annual balance highlights data such as the 4,928 municipal places reached, which are almost 600 more than in 2024, the highest number in history. It has also highlighted the investment of more than 600,000 euros for improvements at Elola and the organization of 146 events with 107,000 people, including athletes and attendees.
10/12/2025 – The Department of Sports of the Fuengirola City Council today presented the annual balance for 2025, an “extraordinary” year marked by the largest sports offer in the history of the municipality, important investments in facilities and the consolidation of the city as a reference in the organization of large events. This was announced by the Area Councilor, Julio Rodríguez, who highlighted figures such as the 4,928 municipal places reached, the highest in history; the investment of more than 600,000 euros for improvements at Elola or the organization of 146 events that have had the participation of 107,000 people, including athletes and attendees.
“2025 has been an extraordinary year for the Sports Department of the Fuengirola City Council and first of all I want to thank everyone who has made it possible: from the team of sports technicians, administration, maintenance workers and, of course, all the clubs, federations, associations, neighbors and all the volunteers we have had in multiple sporting events and top-level events held throughout 2025,” said Rodríguez, who went on to break down the highlights of the balance sheet. annual of the Sports Area.
More than 600,000 euros in improvements to the Elola CD
In 2025, the Sports Facilities Plan has involved an investment of 616,000 euros, allocated to the modernization of the Elola Sports Complex: new directed activity rooms, LED renovation of fields and pavilions, accessibility improvements, skylights, paddle tennis courts and pool control systems.
The City Council has also allocated more than 40,000 euros in sports equipment, furniture and promotion of activities.
Record number of sports places and users
The 2024/2025 season has offered a total of 4,928 municipal places, the highest number recorded in its history.
The number of active users amounts to 4,832, which represents an increase of 593 more users than the previous year.
Adding users and sports clubs, more than 10,000 people practice sports every month in the municipal facilities and schools of Fuengirola.
Increase in subsidies to clubs and athletes
This year, 75 aid files have been processed, compared to 64 the previous year. The current line has 200,000 euros, “and we announce its extension to 220,000 euros for the next call,” the councilor has advanced.
Record of events
A total of 146 events have been organized with the participation of 107,000 people, including participants and attendees. Fuengirola has once again positioned itself as a reference destination with 146 sporting events in 2025, 37,016 athletes and 70,800 spectators.
Highlights include events such as the opening of the Finnish Professional Baseball League; the Fuengirola Half Marathon with 2,500 entrants from 30 nationalities; the Spanish Minibasket Championship; the concentration of the German basketball team and training of fifty NBA stars; the ESEI Cup, the Covap Cup, the Spanish Skating Championship, the International Hockey Championship or the beach handball tournaments.
Rodríguez has also highlighted the historic momentum that rhythmic gymnastics has registered in 2025, with an estimated impact of 1 million euros; as well as the II María de Valdés Crossing with 500 swimmers; the municipal program ‘Fuengirola en Forma’ with more than 6,000 participants; the municipal program ‘Gradas en Paz’, which brought together more than a thousand fathers, mothers, football players and coaches in Fuengirola
Another notable aspect has been the organization of inclusive events, such as the inclusive multi-sports day on the beach, the inclusive fishing tournament or the inclusive National Police race.
Training and sport with values
The ‘Gradas en Paz’ talks and the ‘Fuengirola Olímpica’ cycle, with the swimmer María de Valdés, have reached more than 2,000 young people and families, with the aim of promoting respect, coexistence and motivation in sport.
In Fuengirola, sport and solidarity go hand in hand, as evidenced by the solidarity donations generated by the Department of Sports for associations in 2025, through 14 events that managed to raise 55,318 euros for different social groups in the city.
To conclude, Rodríguez highlighted that these results “are the result of joint work with clubs, federations, volunteers, social groups, municipal staff and most importantly, the support of all citizens so that we can proudly say that ‘Fuengirola lives sport’”.