Basketball camps in Barcelona: every camp, compared

The main basketball camps in Barcelona

Three different families of camp coexist in and around Barcelona: the brand camps of a big club, the skills camps — city-based or residential — and the sports day camps with basketball as the main activity. Here are the best-known options:

Something the table does not show: who owns the court

The city's big camps work out of rented venues — schools, municipal centres, universities — and change courts from year to year. CB Grup Barna's camp runs at La Nau del Clot, the club's own facility. That does not make it better on its own, but it changes one thing: skills work that goes back to no team gets lost. Here the camp coaches and the season coaches are the same people, the club keeps tracking its players during the camp too, and what is worked on in July carries into October. For someone from another club it is a week of work and that is that; for someone who stays, it is continuity.

Public information from each organiser, gathered to make comparison easier. Dates, prices and ages for each edition are set by each camp on its own website and should be checked at the source before signing anyone up. The CB Grup Barna figures are the club's own.

Three questions almost no camp answers on its website

The table above says where each camp runs and what it works on. Three more things decide a great deal and are hard to find published: they are worth asking before signing anyone up, at Barna and anywhere else.

1. Does it only do basketball? Basketball has an idiosyncrasy of its own — the calendar, the individual technical work, how groups are formed by age and level, the minutes a player needs before she actually improves — and that is why it demands exclusivity: whoever does it well gives it the whole structure. Part of the city's offer is run by multi-sport companies: ITW Sport, for example, works in basketball, football, hockey and volleyball. The structure is serious and so is the service, but in a house with four sports one of them always rules and the rest live on what is left over: budget, courts, hours and the best people.

It is just as clear at club level, and the contrast is in this very city. In Girona, where basketball is the city's sport and the centre of the project, the women's side has won two Spanish Leagues and is a regular in Europe. At FC Barcelona, the men's team plays the EuroLeague and has its own academy, but the leading women's team was not the club's own: since 2011 it ran through an agreement with CB Santfeliuenc — Barça CBS — and the club chose not to renew it in 2025. It is the second time Barça has walked away from women's basketball. Their camp is good and so is their methodology; what a big badge cannot buy is having girls' basketball at the centre rather than in a contract.

CB Grup Barna only does basketball, since 1965 and in the same neighbourhood: there is no other sport here to share anything with, and no section that depends on this year's agreement. And the individual methodology that works at Santfeliuenc — the club that ran Barça's women's basketball — is the same one running the weeks of our camp: Time Chamber.

2. Who runs the sessions, and where do they come from? Not the camp's brand name: the people on the court. Sessions at the Barna camp have been led by Robert Willett and Nolan Willett, NBA skills coaches; Serge Ibaka, 2019 NBA champion; Ainhoa López, a Spain international who came through El Clot; and Malak Shady, 3x3 MVP. They do not drop by for a photo: they run sessions with the groups. The faces and the videos are on the camp page.

3. Is it genuinely mixed, or are there four girls all week? Everyone says "mixed"; what changes the experience is how many girls actually turn up. When a girl is one of four in a camp of fifty, she ends up playing against boys every single time — and that is exactly what puts many players off signing up. Parity is also one of the few things only the people who practise it bother to explain: if a camp says nothing anywhere about how girls and boys are split, it is worth asking before you pay.

The Barna camp is mixed and the club has real parity between men's and women's basketball, with girls' teams in every age group: that is why there are enough girls for them to train and compete with each other too, not only against boys. The proof is not a sentence of ours: entire girls' teams from other clubs have come, precisely because they know that here girls and boys play on equal terms.

Skills camp or day camp: the first decision

This is the question that avoids disappointment. A skills camp devotes each session to one specific part of the game, with a high volume of repetitions and groups by age and level: players come back having improved something concrete. A sports day camp mixes basketball with swimming, games and outings: it covers the summer and it is fun, and that is perfectly fine if that is what you want. The problem is paying for one and expecting the other.

The Barna camp is skills work: each week has its own focus — Flow Camp, TC Basics, Shooting Academy, One & One Mastery, Ballhandling Lab, Skills Lab Experience — so anyone coming for more than one week never repeats content.

The four criteria that decide

1. Players per coach. The number that most determines how many repetitions each child gets. A camp that will not tell you is an answer in itself.

2. How groups are formed. By age and by level. A beginner should not train with someone who has been competing for six years, or the other way round.

3. Real hours and drop-off. Full day with lunch or half day, and the hour you can actually drop the child off.

4. What the price includes. Lunch, early drop-off, kit, insurance. Two identical prices can mean two very different things.

There is a fuller breakdown in our guide on what to check before signing anyone up.

By season

Summer. Most of the offer: from late June through August, in single or consecutive weeks. The Barna summer camp runs six weeks in El Clot.

Christmas and Easter. Short skills formats, useful for keeping sharp and working on one specific area mid-season. The club runs them at La Nau del Clot with Time Chamber. At Easter the Barna teams also travel to international tournaments: it is the week the club plays away against clubs from other countries.

By age

The usual range is 5-6 to 17. High-performance camps normally start at 9-10; club camps also take the youngest ages with adapted work. At the Barna there are groups from Escoleta age up to cadet and junior, and the camp is mixed: boys and girls, same demands.

What it costs, with the prices in front of you

A full-day city camp with lunch usually costs between €150 and €250 per week. Residential camps, with accommodation and full board, run to several hundred. These are the published prices, so nobody has to compare from memory:

CB Grup Barna prices are for the camp week; the ITW Sport ones are those published on their site for summer 2026. Every camp sets its own and can change them: check them at source. What makes two prices comparable is not the number but what is inside — lunch, early drop-off, kit, insurance — and how many real hours on court it buys.

The CB Grup Barna camp, in one line

Real skills work without leaving the city of Barcelona: themed weeks built on the individual methodology of Time Chamber, a limit of roughly 50 places per week, groups by age and level, and the atmosphere of a club with more than sixty years of history in El Clot: we are from El Clot and, at the same time, the largest youth structure in the city of Barcelona, with 34 teams on the Catalan Federation register. Open to players from any club. Around 150 girls and boys came through it in summer 2026, from the Barna and from other clubs, and guests such as Ainhoa López (a Spain international who trained in El Clot), NBA skills trainer Robert Willet and Malak Shady have run sessions on court. Faces and videos on the camp page.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best basketball camp in Barcelona?

There is no single best camp. For brand and the big-club experience, Barça Escola; for high performance with accommodation, residential camps such as Gigantes or ITW Sport; for skills work inside the city with small groups and club prices, the CB Grup Barna camp in El Clot. What decides it is the ratio, the groups, the type of work and what the price includes.

Do you have to play for the club?

Not for the Barna camp: each week there are places for club players and places for players from any other club in Barcelona and the province.

Are there basketball camps for girls?

Yes. The Barna camp is mixed and the club has real parity between men's and women's basketball, with girls' teams in every age group.

When does registration open?

Dates for each edition are announced on the camp page and on Instagram (@cbgrupbarna). Anyone who wants the heads-up before it opens to the public can ask on the club's WhatsApp.