The PuntoGal Gaelic Schools set a participation record with over 3,000 children taking part in their activities.

The Galician Gaelic Football Association (AGFG) is calling 2025 a record-breaking year for participation in its activities, thanks to the support of PuntoGal. Both in official competitions—such as the League and the Galician Cup—and in the PuntoGal Gaelic Schools program, “milestones” have been reached, as explained by the association’s president, Ángel Negrete. “All the projects are progressing at an exciting pace, and especially between March and May, there was a lot of work organizing events and initiatives,” he says.

The most “inspiring” project due to its “huge potential” is the Gaelic Schools initiative, which aims to promote the sport in schools through demonstrations, workshops, and tournaments, such as the PuntoGal Christmas Tournament. This year, around 3,000 children are participating through their schools, and over a thousand take part in the organized tournaments. A sign of the young players’ growing interest was the success of Estrela Supernova—a team made up of players from Pino, Boqueixón, and Friol—which became European champions in the cadet category at the Fèile tournament held in Amsterdam in May.

The Galician Cup, held in Ribeira, also “had the highest participation in our history,” the Association’s president emphasizes, with 20 teams and 300 participants across both men’s and women’s categories. The third edition of the Celtic Cup, which this year featured 8 teams in each category, has, according to Negrete, “established itself as a reference tournament in Europe,” already attracting interest from several clubs outside Galicia for next year. In the League, the Vigo-based team Keltoi claimed the championship title for the first time, and Estrela Vermelha, from Santiago de Compostela, were crowned women’s champions with a perfect winning record.

In the coming weeks, the Galician national team will travel to Dublin for a training camp ahead of next year’s World Cup, which will, for the first time, be played in the traditional 15 vs. 15 format. “This is the sport’s original format, and it will allow us to test our level ahead of the 2026 tournament,” the association’s president explains.

At the beginning of 2025, PuntoGal renewed its commitment to the sport for the seventh consecutive year by signing a new collaboration agreement with the Galician Gaelic Football Association (AGFG). There are currently 440 registered players in Galicia and 15 teams, 6 of them women’s teams. PuntoGal’s general director, Darío Janeiro, states that “PuntoGal is an organization with a social mission and a commitment to the country, maintaining a corporate program that supports initiatives connected to Galician culture, language, technology, or sport. The core values of this sport also align perfectly with PuntoGal’s spirit, which is why we have maintained this uninterrupted collaboration over the years,” he concludes.