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Compete at the highest level without giving up your education.
Combining elite sport with education does not fail for lack of talent. It fails for lack of structure.
Football
No. 1 in the FIFA ranking, men’s and women’s.
Basketball
European champions in 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2022.
Tennis
And six Davis Cups.
Padel
The women’s team with the most World Championships ever, ahead of Argentina’s eight.
Golf
And six green jackets at Augusta: Ballesteros, Olazábal, Sergio García and Jon Rahm.
international athletes currently compete at United States universities.
in athletic scholarships awarded every year by NCAA universities.
That model didn't exist in Spain.
No one should have to choose. Or leave.
The first multi-sport high-performance institution in Europe. In Madrid.
Per full academic year with taxes included. With the school or university, the amount depends on the centre, and the residence is only in the full programme, which lists each centre with its starting price on the pricing page.
starting price8,990€per year
Full academic year, September to June · taxes included
The sports programme and ESS support.
What's included
The sports programme and the school, without residence. The amount depends on the school you choose.
What's included
The sports programme, the school and the residence: the only level with residence. The amount depends on the school you choose.
What's included
Everything the price does not include is written down here
See the pricing page See programmes and pricingYou choose discipline and level. The sport determines the training centre and the weekly load.
School or university, depending on stage and goal. Two academic routes.
We assign it, on a clear basis: distance to training and the student's age.
The services that sit outside the programme amount.
Each programme has its own technical direction: whoever signs it sets the methodology, picks the coaches and answers for the results.
Former player, 7 ATP titles and 5 Davis Cups. Director of the ESS Feli López Academy.
Professional and ACB player, 2019 world champion and Spain 3x3 international. Pindown technical sessions.
Professional padel player and world No. 1 in 2019. Present at training and in the mentoring sessions.
Former European Tour and Challenge Tour player, and Golf Digest Instructor of the Year in Spain.
UEFA Pro coach and assistant coach at Real Madrid Castilla. He has led Espanyol B and the Qatar Under-19 national team.
An ESS student does not depend on one institution but on a network built around them: where they study, where they train and where they live. More than forty partners across Europe, the Middle East and LATAM.
Schools and universities awarding their own official qualifications. Each treats the training and competition calendar as part of the course, not as an exception.
Top-level clubs, federations and facilities where students train and compete.
Residences inside the ten-minute ecosystem. Assignment is a professional decision: distance to training and the student's age.
This is an example timetable from the tennis programme, Monday to Friday.
The ESS team was in touch with us from the very beginning and took care of everything: accommodation, meals, transport and schedules. We could not have asked for a better experience.
If they are 14 to 17 and do not live with their family in Spain, they need legal guardianship: the school covers it if it has boarding and, if not, it is added as an extra and handled by a specialist provider. If they live in an ESS residence, which comes with the Full programme, a mentor lives alongside the students. At all three levels, their ESS Tutor talks to them almost every day and sends you a termly report on academic and sporting progress; for anything that cannot wait, there is a channel open 24 hours a day.
Yes. You can handle it yourself or arrange it through ESS as an additional service: we work with a firm specialising in immigration, we coordinate the file and they handle the consular process. Consular fees are always paid by the family.
We assign it, and we do so on a clear basis: distance to the training centre and the student's age. A fifteen-year-old does not live where a twenty-one-year-old university student lives, and half an hour less commuting a day adds up to a hundred hours a year. That said, we work with several residences. If there is a specific reason to prefer another one, it is considered among the available options.
It depends on the route: a Spanish national qualification, International Baccalaureate, British curriculum, American High School Diploma or a university degree at one of the partner universities in Madrid. All of them are official qualifications awarded by the academic institution, not ESS certificates.
Each level has a starting price, per full academic year with taxes included. Sport only covers the sports programme and the ESS Tutor; Sport + education adds the school or university, and the Full programme also adds the residence — it is the only level that includes it —, with a starting price per centre. Extras can be added to any of them, each with its own amount: guardianship with visa, visa, health insurance, high performance, transfers and the search for alternative options. Flights, arrival and departure transfers, consular fees and personal sports equipment are always outside.
The main academic year starts in September, following the Spanish academic calendar. Some programmes also accept entry in January or February, and depending on availability some sports allow students to join at other points in the year. Admissions confirms the entry dates and the places left in each programme.
We'll reply within 24 hours with all the information you need.
ESS Athletics designs, implements and runs turnkey sports programmes inside your own facilities.
