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The 2025 edition of the prestigious JSSL Pro Academia 7 tournament will once again have a select representation of LaLiga EA Sports clubs: Valencia CF and Villarreal CF. Valencia will participate in the U-16 male and female categories, where they are the current champions and will seek to defend their titles. The Villarreal, meanwhile, will also participate in the U-16 male and female categories, but will also send a special APAC Sub-12 team composed of the best players of the Villarreal Academies in Australia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The tournament will take place from April 17 to 20 and will have 450 teams from 17 different countries. The finals will be played at the Singapore Stadium Arena.
Both Spanish clubs are models for their work in base football. In fact, Valencia CF is the current champion of the JSSL Pro Academy 7's in 2024, both in the male and female category, which earned them the title of Best Professional Academy of the Tournament.
For its part, Villarreal CF won the Europa League in 2021 defending a firm commitment to the quarry, as evidenced by the construction of two high -performance sports cities in recent years to guarantee the intensive training of hundreds of young talents.
Both Valencia CF and Villarreal CF also have a strong presence in Asia through their international projects for young people. The Villarreal CF has academies in Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and three in Australia, as well as camps in Thailand and Japan. For its part, Valencia CF also has academies in South Korea and Japan, and VCF camps in China.
LaLiga has a firm commitment to the development of youth football in the Asia-Pacific region, where the organization launched the LaLiga Youth Tournament, which has been held in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines or Thailand, and has plans to expand to more countries. In addition, within the framework of the Global LaLiga Academy project, through which it has developed more than 840 football projects in 55 countries since 2015, LaLiga maintains its collaboration agreement until 2026 for the National Project “Unleash The Roar!”, Together with Sport Singapore and the Singapore soccer association, and has permanent academies both in Vietnam and Malaysia.
In addition, LaLiga collaborates in base soccer projects such as the JSSL Pro Academia 7's. This year, as one of the main sponsors of the tournament, LaLiga will provide exclusive products for the MVP (best player) of each age group.
The largest base football tournament in Asia.
JSSL 7's is the largest base football tournament in Asia, with more than 450 teams and 6000 players and coaches from 15 different countries. This year its eleventh edition is celebrated, and in previous editions it has welcomed teams such as Liverpool, FC Barcelona, ​​Atlético de Madrid, Arsenal or Manchester United. You have spent young players already consecrated in European football such as Harvey Elliott (Liverpool FC), Anthony Elanga (Nottingham Forrest), or Jesús Vázquez, who played at the JSSL in 2018 with Valencia CF, and is currently playing his fourth season in the first team with remarkable performance. David Esta, Pablo López or Rubén Iranzo are other JSSL players who have already played in the first Valencia team.
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