Asociación Quidditch España

Asociación Quidditch España is the National Governing Body (NGB) of quidditch in Spain, affiliated to the International Quidditch Association. The current president is Yeray Espinosa and the vice-president Rion Blake. It began in 2013 as a Facebook page and as an internet forum, to coordinate and gather the players and teams that were appearing in Spain until it became an association.

Since its recent creation, the AQE has tried to expand his networks in all the country seeing the number of teams increase a lot in the last months and creating the first ever Spanish national quidditch team to participate in the European Games that celebrated in Sarteano, Italy in July 2015.

Competitive structure

Like in most of NGBs at international level, the AQE structures his competitions in small tournaments and a national tournament that gathers all the teams of the country. Being the teams nowadays so separated, they chose to do regional tournaments, using them to seed teams in the national cup. Each region decides how this championship is.

The AQE also works with Associación of Quidditch of Catalonia to create tournaments in peninsular level.

Regional tournaments

Already played

  • Torneo do Noroeste (Galicia)
  • Andalusian Cup (November 2015)
  • Cup of Madrid (November 2015)

Currently playing

  • Euskal Liga (Basque Country)

National tournaments

  • Spanish Cup (February 2016)

Tournaments with the AQC

  • Cup of Regions

European competition

The AQE is represented in the European committee, so it has the right to participate in the competitions organized by the committee. There are two tournaments organized in European level:

  • European Quidditch Cup (Teams)
  • European Games (National teams)

Teams

Active teams

Andalucia

  • Club Jerez Quidditch

  • Malaka Vikings

  • Sevilla Warriors

  • Thestrals Granada

Community of Madrid

  • Madrid Lynx

  • Madrid Wolves

Valencian community

  • Levante Phoenix

Basque Country

  • Bizkaia Boggarts

  • Gasteiz Gamusins

Galicia

  • Dementores (A Coruña)

  • Dinosaur's Army (Vigo)

  • Lucus Centauri

  • Lumos Compostela

  • Pontevedra Q.C.

Cities with developing teams

Andalucia

  • Córdoba

  • Huelva

Galicia

  • Vilagarcía de Arousa

National team

The AQE has also the responsibility to organise annually the national team to attend to the European Games or to the IQA World Cup. Until the moment it has only played in the European Games played in Sarteano, Italy in July 2015.

See also

  • Quidditch Muggle
  • Quidditch in Spain