Spanish Quidditch Association

The Spanish Quidditch Association (Spanish: Asociación Quidditch España, AQE) is the National Governing Body (NGB) of quidditch in Spain, affiliated to the International Quidditch Association.[1] 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.

Spanish Quidditch Association
Quidditch Europe
Association crest
Founded25/04/2015
IQA affiliation25/04/2015
Quidditch Europe affiliation25/04/2015
President Héctor Cabrera
Vice-President Miguel Vázquez
WebsiteAQE on facebook

Since its creation, the AQE has tried to expand his networks in all the country, seeing the number of teams increase over the months and creating the first Spanish national quidditch team to participate in the 2015 European Games in Sarteano, Italy.[2]

Competitive structure

Like most NGBs, the AQE structures its competitions in several small tournaments and a national tournament that gathers all the teams of the country. Each region is in charge of organising a championship whose results are used to seed teams for the Spanish Cup.

The AQE also works with the Catalan Quidditch Association to create tournaments at the peninsular level.

Regional tournaments

Already played
  • Torneo do Noroeste (Galicia)[3][4]
  • Andalusian Cup (November 2015)
  • Cup of Madrid (November 2015)

Currently playing

National tournaments

Tournaments including Catalonia
  • 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:

Teams

Active teams

Andalucia
  • Club Jerez Quidditch
  • Malaka Vikings
  • Sevilla Warriors
  • Thestrals Granada
  • Almeria Basilisks

Community of Madrid
  • Madrid Lynx
  • Madrid Wolves

Valencian community
  • Levante Phoenix
  • Buckbeak Riders
  • Quimeras Alicante

Basque Country
  • Bizkaia Boggarts
  • Gasteiz Gamusins

Castilla y León
  • Blue Gryffins Burgos

Galicia
  • Dementores (A Coruña)
  • Dinosaur's Army (Vigo)
  • Lucus Centauri
  • Lumos Compostela
  • Pontevedra Q.C.

Cities with developing teams

Andalucia

Galicia

National team

The AQE has also the responsibility to organise annually the national team to attend the European Games and the IQA World Cup.[7]

See also

References
  1. «Acta.
  2. «First Quidditch European Games to be held in Tuscany.
  3. «El universo Harry Potter se deja ver en Poio con el I Torneo do Noroeste de Quidditch».
  4. «Shout out to Dementores Quidditch Team for winning first place against Pontevedra Quidditch Club at Torneo do Noroeste 100*-30.
  5. «Euskal Quidditch Liga: Bizkaia Boggarts se lleva el primer asalto.
  6. «Mangamore Quidditch Kopa - Gasteiz Gamusins vs.
  7. «¿Ganará España los Juegos Europeos de quidditch?
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