As the season progresses, the XXXIX Cabildo Games, a sports program organized by the Cabildo of Tenerife through the Sports Department, intensify every weekend the sporting activity aimed at children and adolescents between 6 and 16 years old. There will be seven modalities that will star in the agenda of the Games on its fifteenth day, which will be held this Saturday, January 17, and will mobilize more than a thousand young people in different sports spaces across the island.
The Minister of Sports, Yolanda Moliné, explained that “the Cabildo Games are starting off strong this year 2026, this Saturday new modalities are incorporated into the competition, such as Canarian pelota, badminton, table tennis and especially water polo, which will also debut the recently inaugurated Tenerife Aquatic Sports Center. We hope that this will be the beginning of an intense calendar of competitions in this island sports facility that will make Tenerife recovers the position it deserves as a benchmark for aquatic activities.”
This Saturday’s first premiere features the Canarian pelota, which begins a new season at the Cabildo Games in what has been its usual venue, the bocce field of the Los Baldíos Sociocultural Center, in the municipality of La Laguna. This first day will begin at 10:00 am and will bring together a hundred boys and girls of all categories, under the tutelage of the Tenerife Island Federation of Bola Canaria y Petanque.
For its part, water polo will celebrate its first day of competition in this edition of the Cabildo Games, debuting a sports facility, the recently inaugurated Tenerife Aquatic Sports Center, in Puerto de la Cruz. The call will mobilize a hundred water polo players from the junior and junior categories in the different matches that the Canarian Swimming Federation has scheduled for this opening day.
Table tennis will also be incorporated this Saturday into the XXXIX Cabildo Games and will do so under the technical organization of the Tenerife Island Table Tennis Federation. The opening day will be at the Guamasa Municipal Pavilion, in La Laguna, starting at 10:00 a.m. and will bring together 70 young athletes from the junior and junior male and female categories.
The first day of badminton will take us to the Leticia Batista Municipal Pavilion in El Chorrillo, in the municipality of El Rosario. This first event of the season will call on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. the under-15 and under-17 categories in its first qualifying phase, under the watchful eye of the Canary Islands Badminton Federation.
On the other hand, the Canarian wrestling faces this Saturday starting at 10:30 a.m. on the fifth day of the Insular League, mobilizing around 300 wrestlers from the pre-benjamín, benjamín, alevín and infantile categories. The fights in the Northern Zone will be held in the Mencey Tegueste (Tegueste), Pancho Suárez (Santa Cruz), José Álvarez Gutiérrez (Santa Úrsula) and Santiago Yanes de Punta Brava (Puerto de la Cruz) territories; and in the South Zone, in the Tomás González Martín (San Miguel de Abona), Benildo Frías (Fasnia), El Escobonal and Tasagaya (Güímar) lands. The competition is organized jointly by the Cabildo and the Canarian Island Wrestling Federation of Tenerife, with the collaboration of town councils, municipal schools and clubs on the Island.
Handball celebrates this Saturday its tenth day of the preliminary phase, putting the juvenile, children’s and male cadet and female cadet categories into play at the Celestino Hernández Luis de La Perdoma Municipal Pavilion (La Orotava), at the Villa Isabel de El Fraile (Arona) and on the fields of the IES Cruz Santa (Los Realejos). The technical organization corresponds to the Tenerife Island Handball Federation.
Finally, around 400 players will be mobilized in a new day of the Insular Volleyball League with the matches of the youngest, juvenile, children’s and cadet categories. The matches will be played starting at 9:30 a.m. on the fields of the IES Benito Pérez Armas (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Pabellón Alberto Delgado, San Matías y Cisneros (La Laguna), Rosendo Alonso Tapia (Candelaria), Ichasagua (Arona), Miguel Ángel Díaz Molina (Puerto de la Cruz), Quiquirá (La Orotava) and in the municipal pavilions of Los Realejos, La Victoria de Acentejo, La Matanza de Acentejo and San Miguel de Abona, all of them under the watchful eye of the Tenerife Island Volleyball Federation.
