JMJ Sports

The Youth Festival will feature 7-a-side football and beach volleyball tournaments! The main goal is to promote a sharing of the Christian experience and an encounter of cultures for pilgrims from all over the world, through a universal language: sport.

Registration for JMJ Sports is closed. Even if you are not participating as an athlete, come and join so that these tournaments will be a moment of celebration and encounter through sport. Entry is free!

Beach Volleyball

For the first time at a World Youth Day, pilgrims can participate in a beach volleyball tournament, which will be played on the sands of the Cascais coastline.

This tournament will be held on 2 August, from 2pm to 8pm at Carcavelos Beach.

7-a-side Football

As has become a custom during World Youth Day, pilgrims will be able to play in a football tournament.

This tournament will be held on 2 August, from 2pm to 8pm at the Estádio Universitário Sports Centre (in the centre of Lisbon).

Inclusive sport – demonstration

Sports, understood as the practice of physical exercise, is considered the activity that brings people closer together and makes them equal. It promotes relationships and the exchange of experiences with others, leads to the discovery of individual and social limits and potential, and overcomes some barriers imposed by society.

During the afternoon of August, 2nd, at the Pavilion 2 of the Estádio Universitário Sports Centre, with the support and organization of the Benfica Foundation, you will be able to participate in several Inclusive Sports stations, trying out sports such as Blind Football, Walking Football and Korfball.