Sports Training Soccer summer camp in France

Soccer summer camps in France for teens: Play football with French teens of your age

Nacel organizes summer soccer camps in France. Book the program and travel to France next summer!

• Football summer camp for one to two weeks in July and August.
• French soccer camps designed for juniors (13 to 17 years old)
• Accommodation in dorms inside the campus during this French soccer camp. 

ABOUT OUR FRENCH SPORTS SUMMER

Our summer sports camps are organized in Mâcon in France. This campus is located in a lush green park, 10 minutes from the city center. It offers excellent facilities: dormitories, sports fields, indoor and outdoor courts, water sports facilities nearby (the ones on the campus are used for the Swimming camp), tennis fields, a gymnasium, leisure and activity room, a self-service restaurant, etc. The students will be able to practice sports and educational activities in complete safety at the campus in Mâcon. The Soccer camp is also offer on our Montauban campus, in the South West of France, in a French boarding school (4 bedded rooms). 

All our sports camps are developed and organized by our sports affiliate: SPORTS ELITE JEUNES. The sports and activities offered in Mâcon take place in world-class facilities used for training French national teams. Our coaches have years of experience running training and practice sessions, they are experienced and highly skilled. They have a Sports Coach Diploma in their specific field or work in school as sports coaches.

LANGUAGE DURING THE SOCCER SUMMER CAMP IN FRANCE
The majority of participants (90%) are French. Coaches and assistants are all French, and foreign students make the most of these sports camps to improve their French skills because they are immersed in a French-speaking environment, 24 hours a day. French is the language used during all activities - sports, leisure time, social activities, meals etc.

INTENSIVE SOCCER SUMMER CAMP
Participants can select a sport to practice intensively during the French summer camp.
From Monday to Friday, there are 6 hours of football training to improve the individual technical game, the game with other team members:

• Games with 2 or 3 players, games with 7, then 11 players
• practice on different positions: attacker, goal …
• Daily games
• Conferences, shows, meeting
• Team tournaments, individual competitions

Interested in French classes on top of your sports training camp in France? Have a look at the Sports and French summer camp. 

If you participate in this Football/Soccer summer camp in France, you will be able to:

• Play soccer ( 6 hours per day)
• Participate in evening activities 
• Participate in weekend activities
• For 2 weeks: you will be able to go to a theme park with your new friends in Mâcon.

Your French camp leaders will organize nice activities during this Soccer summer camp in France like: games, contests, parties, competitions, etc.

Accommodation on the Mâcon or Montauban campus on a full board basis.

Students live in student residences (from 2 to 4 beds per room) with shared facilities. French and international campers share the same room based on age and gender. It is possible to specify a person with whom to share the room. Full board accommodation is provided. The 4 meals of the day are balanced menus cooked by the chefs at the center.

DROP OFF AT THE CAMP: Sunday between 3 PM and 4:30 PM
PICK UP AT THE CAMP: Saturday between 10 AM and 11 AM

HOW TO GET TO THE CAMP?​

We offer 3 possibilities:

• You bring your child to the camp in Macon/Montauban/Vichy and pick him/her up at the end of the stay;
• or you bring your child to the train station Gare Bercy (Vichy) or Gare de Lyon in Paris (Macon) where he/she joins other campers traveling by train to Vichy/Macon (Accompanied by SEJ staff. Additional fee applies). The trains leave between 12 and 2pm. (this option is not available for Montauban)
• or your child flies to Paris arriving in the early morning at a Paris airport BEFORE 9 AM on the camp's start date; our staff will pick him/her up at the airport and transfer him/her to Bercy (Vichy) or Gare de Lyon (Macon) in Paris where he/she joins other campers traveling by train to Vichy/Macon (Accompanied by staff. Additional fee applies) (this option is not available for Montauban)

HOW TO LEAVE FROM THE CAMP?

We offer 3 possibilities:

• You bring your child to the camp in Macon/Montauban/Vichy and pick him/her up at the end of the stay;
• or your child travels back to the train station Gare Bercy (Vichy) or Gare de Lyon in Paris (Macon) with the group and staff and you pick him/her up there (Accompanied by SEJ staff. Additional fee applies). The trains arrive in Paris late afternoon on the camp's end date. (this option is not available for Montauban)
• or your child travels back to the train station Gare Bercy (Vichy) or Gare de Lyon in Paris (Macon) with group and staff; our staff will pick him/her up at the train station and transfer him/her to a Paris airport (Accompanied by staff. Additional fee applies). His/her flight should NOT TAKE OFF EARLIER THAN 9 pm on the camp's end date. (this option is not available for Montauban)
  

Please note: no overnight in Paris will be possible during the summer of 2024  after July 20th due to the Olympic Games 2024. Please plan flights accordingly. Contact us for any further guidance. 

Football/Soccer summer camps in France: choose your dates!

*Price in Euros

French Soccer Summer Camps in France 2024

Each Football camp session lasts for 7 or 14 days. Arrival on Sunday and departure on Saturday.

Arrival dates for July in Macon are:

• June 30th 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• July 7th 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• July 14th 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• July 21st 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• July 28th 2024  (1 or 2 weeks)

Arrival dates for July in Montauban are: 

• July 7th 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• July 14th 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• July 21st 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• July 28th 2024  (1 week)

Arrival dates for August in Macon are:

• August 4th 2024 (1 or 2 weeks)
• August 11st 2024  (1 week only)
  

Are you interested in taking French lessons AND practicing Football for 3 hours in the morning? Opt for a sports camp in France WITH French lessons: French and Sports summer camp in France. This camp combining French and Soccer is offered from July 7th to July 20th 2024. 

All our sports camps in France are developed and organized by our sports affiliate: SPORTS ELITE JEUNES.

Price includes

• Administration fees
• Full board accommodation in shared rooms
• Sport activities carefully supervised and led by certified staff
• Access to all sports equipment of the campus
• Social activities during the weekend and on evenings
• Support, assistance and 24H emergency response phone number during the whole program

Price does not include

• International airfare
• Travel insurance (luggage lost, flight delay etc.)
• Visa, passport and medical exam fees
• Group transfer from a Paris train station to the Vichy campus by train, with French chaperones, and back 
  
• Premium transfer package
• Personal expenses and pocket money
• Medical, Liability and Emergency Repatriation insurance: please provide an insurance certificate

If you want to be part of our Soccer Camp in France, you must consider that: 

• We only accept students from 13 to 17 years of age
• You must have studied French for about two years
• You must have strong motivation and willingness to create friendship with other participants 
• You have to do your best effort to speak in French at all times
• You have to make sure that you have the physical and mental condition to be part of this program

Thanks to this program, you will be able to improve your French, practice a sport and meet new friends. Our campers are expected to be mature and flexible.

THIS IS A NON SMOKING PROGRAM.