From €75 to €4,195 a week. That is not a price range.

The cheapest week of football camp in this directory costs €75. The most expensive costs €4,195. That is a factor of fifty-six, and it tells you nothing at all, because the two are not the same thing.

One is a half-day week in Palma. The other is a week living at Barça Academy. (How many hours a day the first one runs, its operator does not publish — which is its own small illustration of the problem.)

What happens when you separate them

We normalise every published price to what one week costs, which is the only way to put a two-week residential stay next to five mornings of day camp. Fifty-three prices, thirty camps:

Now the numbers mean something. A half-day week is a hundred and fifty euros. A residential week is a thousand. Those are different decisions with different budgets, and lining them up in one list — which is what a search results page does — makes both of them look arbitrary.

Note what has not gone away. Inside each format the spread is still five to eight times. Residential runs from €497 to €4,195 a week. That gap is a real question about what you are buying, and it is the question worth asking.

The number on the page is not per week

Twenty-three of the fifty-three published prices are for stays longer than a week. The figure on the operator's page is a total, and totals are not comparable.

SIA Academy publishes its whole ladder, which is more than most do. Divided out:

Read the right-hand column. Two weeks cost more per week than one. So do three and four. The per-week price only drops below the single week at seven, and it is cheapest at eight.

We do not know why, and we are not going to guess — it is their published table and it may reflect an introductory rate on the single week, or a fixed cost that only spreads out over a long stay. What matters is that you cannot see any of it from the totals. A parent comparing "€995" against "€2,090" reads the second as a two-week discount. It is not.

Then there is what the price does not include

Publishing a price is the easy half. Of the thirty camps:

• 19 publish a price at all.
• 17 publish what it includes.
• 5 publish what it does not.

That last number is the one to sit with. Five operators out of thirty tell you, before you pay, which things you will be paying for separately — the airport transfer, the kit, the laundry, the excursion, the medical insurance, the deposit that is not part of the headline figure.

For the other twenty-five, "what else will I pay?" is a question you can only answer by asking.

How to compare two camps honestly

1. Divide by the number of weeks. Always. Before anything else.
2. Check the format. A half-day price next to a residential price is not a comparison.
3. Ask what is not included, in writing, and keep the reply. The list is usually short and it is usually not on the website.
4. Ask whether the registration fee and the deposit are inside the figure or on top of it.

Four questions. The whole reason this site exists is that a family should not have to ask them thirty times.

How to check us

Every price above is on the camp's own page here, with the operator's URL and the date we read it. Open any camp, find the price, click the small src beside it.

The full list, sorted by what a week actually costs, is the camp directory. Eleven camps show "the operator does not publish this" where the price should be — that is a description of their website on 7 August 2026, not a verdict, and we will change it the day it changes: correcciones@footballcampspain.com.