Lacrosse in Spain

Lacrosse in Spain has its origins in the 2000s in Madrid. It is currently governed by the Spanish Lacrosse Association.

Spanish Lacrosse Association

Agrupación Deportiva España Lacrosse
Sport Lacrosse
Abbreviation ADEL
Affiliation European Lacrosse Federation
Headquarters Madrid, Spain
Official website
www.spainlacrosse.org
Spain

The Spanish Lacrosse Association (in Spanish: Agrupación Deportiva España Lacrosse) is the official governing body of lacrosse in Spain and is a member of the Federation of International Lacrosse and the European Lacrosse Federation. It was founded to develop and promote lacrosse within Spain.

It conducts the men's and the women's teams.

Club tournaments

LEL

The Liga Española de Lacrosse is the main lacrosse competition in Spain. Until 2013, it was usual that teams without enough players played combined. Since 2014, a new league format was approved dividing teams into LEL and LEL2, joining the LEL only the teams that have at least ten players.

In 2011, the league changed its name to Liga Ibérica de Lacrosse as Portuguese team ACM Coimbra participated in two stages of the league.[1]

Season Champion Runner-up Third
2009–10 Madrid Lacrosse UEM Lacrosse Sevilla+Barcelona
2010–11 UEM Lacrosse Sevilla Lacrosse Chamberí Lacrosse
2012–13 Madrid Lacrosse UC3M UH Gijón
2014 Madrid Lacrosse UH Gijón Montes Lacrosse
2015 Madrid Lacrosse UH Gijón Montes Lacrosse
2016 Madrid Lacrosse Sevilla Lacrosse Barcelona Bandits

LEL 2

The Liga Española de Lacrosse 2 was created in 2014 and is the second tier of the Spanish lacrosse league system. It is played in a 5x5 format between the reserve teams of LEL and teams that have few players.

Season Champion Runner-up Third
2014 Sevilla Lacrosse Barcelona Bandits Arcas Lax
2015 Sevilla Lacrosse
2016 Madrid Lacrosse Donosti Wolves Alicante Barefoots

LELF

The Liga Española de Lacrosse Femenino is the main women's league in Spain. It was played by the first time in 2014 with seven teams, four of them combined in two. In 2013 there were played several exhibition games during the LEL rounds between Madrid and Cuenca, the two first women's lacrosse teams in Spain.

Season Champion Runner-up Third
2014 Euskal Lacrosse Elkartea Madrid Lacrosse Arcas+Montes
2015 Euskal Lacrosse Elkartea Madrid Lacrosse
2016 Madrid Lacrosse Barcelona Bandits

Editions of the Spanish Lacrosse League

2014

The 2014 Liga Española de Lacrosse was the 4th edition of this tournament. Composed by three teams, it was the first edition played with a round-robin tournament with the clubs with more than 11 players in their roster.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts MAD GIJ MON
1 Madrid Lacrosse (C) 4 4 0 0 51 12 +39 8 — 7–5 9–4
2 UH Gijón 3 1 0 2 12 28 −16 2 2–17 — NP
3 Montes Lacrosse 3 0 0 3 9 32 −23 0 1–18 4–5 —
Source: Spain Lacrosse
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion.

2015

The 2015 Liga Española de Lacrosse was the 5th edition of this tournament. Composed by four teams, it was played between 3 February and 14 June. ANV Cuervos retired after its first game (17–0 against Madrid) and all its games were declared with a result of 0–15; however, they are not included in this table.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts MAD GIJ BIZ
1 Madrid Lacrosse (C) 4 3 0 1 45 23 +22 6 — 18–2 14–4
2 UH Gijón 4 3 0 1 32 24 +8 6 15–0 — 9–2
3 Bizkaia Black Crows 4 0 0 4 12 42 −30 0 2–13 4–6 —
Source: Spain Lacrosse
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion.

2016

The 2016 Liga Española de Lacrosse was the 6th edition of this tournament. Composed by four teams, it was played between 4 March and 19 June with a double round-robin tournament format, giving 2 points for a win and one points for a loss. Cancelled games would penalise the team implied with four points.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts MAD SEV BAR BIZ
1 Madrid Lacrosse[lower-alpha 1] (C) 10 8 1 1 45 33 +12 13 — 7–4
1–7		 6–6
14–0		 9–0
9–0
2 Sevilla Lacrosse[lower-alpha 1] 6 1 1 4 28 30 −2 7 4–6
4–6		 — c c
3 Barcelona Bandits[lower-alpha 1] 10 3 4 3 52 38 +14 6 2–6
6–9		 4–4
6–5		 — 5–5
5–5
4 Bizkaia Black Crows[lower-alpha 1] 6 0 2 4 22 46 −24 6 c c 6–9
6–9		 —
Source: Spain Lacrosse
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion.
Notes:
  1. 1 2 3 4 Points adjustment due to cancelled matches:
    Madrid Lacrosse (–4), Sevilla Lacrosse (+4), Barcelona Bandits (–4), Bizkaia Black Crows (+4)

2016–17

The 2016–17 Liga Española de Lacrosse is the 7th edition of the main Spanish Lacrosse League. For this edition, the old division between LEL and LEL2 was abolished and a new competition system was instated. The seven teams were divided into two conferences:

Each team would play home and away against the other two teams of its conference and will play also one more game home and other away against two different teams, totalling six games played per team. The inter-conference games were decided taking the distance of the teams as main criteria.[2]

The seven first qualified teams overall will qualify directly to the quarterfinals while the two bottom teams will play themselves a previous game to qualify.

Regular season

Regular season started on 29 October 2016 and will finish on 29 April 2017.

Pos Cnf Team Pld W L GF GA GD Qualification MAD ALI SEV BAR MON CUE LIS
1 W Madrid Lacrosse 2 2 0 27 1 +26 Quarterfinals — 22 Apr — — 25 Feb — 16–0
2 E Alicante Barefoots 1 1 0 15 3 +12 — — 25 Mar 11 Mar — 17 Dec —
3 W Sevilla Lacrosse 1 1 0 10 1 +9 — — — — 3 Dec 1 Apr 11 Mar
4 E Barcelona Dracs 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Apr 4 Feb — — — TBD —
5 W Montes Lacrosse 1 0 1 1 11 −10 1–11 — 11 Feb 18 Mar — — —
6 E Cuenca Lacrosse 1 0 1 3 15 −12 — 3–15 — 18 Feb — — 25 Mar
7 W Lisboa Gladiators 2 0 2 1 26 −25 17 Dec — 1–10 — 22 Apr — —
Updated to match(es) played on 19 November 2016. Source: Spain Lacrosse
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored.

Playoffs

The playoffs will take part in Madrid on 13 and 14 May 2017.

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
14 May
 
 
1st qualified
 
13 May
 
 
 
4th qualified
 
14 May
 
5th qualified
 
 
 
13 May
 
 
 
2nd qualified
 
14 May
 
7th qualified
 
 
 
13 May
 
 
 
3rd qualified
 
 
6th qualified
 

References

  1. ↑ "Liga Ibérica de Lacrosse". Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Liga Española Lacrosse – Senior Masculina" (in Spanish). Spain Lacrosse. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
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