Taking your club or sports team on an overseas school sports tour is a popular way to end the season, develop teamwork and camaraderie, or to take advantage of other perspectives on coaching and tactics.
On a school sports tour children will get to experience a new country and culture, whilst having that wonderful feeling of being able to represent not just their school but their country too, at their favourite sport.
School sports tours are available for just about any sport your can think of, with perhaps the most popular being netball, hockey, rugby, and of course, football tours. And all ages are catered for, from juniors to university teams. Between them, the companies represented below can help arrange a safe, professional and memorable school sports tours to any corner of the world, taking care of travel, accommodation, and fixtures or tournaments! Click through and send a request for more details to find out how they can help you organise the perfect sports tour for your school.
Take a look at our feature on school sports tours to Valencia, Spain
We offer bespoke International Gold DofE expeditions walking, biking or paddling. Our current trips have taken us to Norway, Sweden & Croatia and include travel, R&R/culture days and added activities like Canyoning and BBQ's after the expedition. ...
Details & EnquireInternational DofE Walking & Kayaking Expeditions
5-10 Days
We offer bespoke International Gold DofE expeditions walking, biking or paddling. Our current trips have taken us to Norway, Sweden & Croatia and include travel, R&R/culture days and added activities like Canyoning and BBQ's after the expedition.
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Netball Tours with Equity
A netball tour is a great way for players to bond and grow. At Equity, we know that on a sports tour it can be shown that workshops, tailored training programmes and an external environment can change a student’s attitude towards sport.
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Hockey Tours with Equity
A hockey tour with Equity allows students to develop their skills in fantastic locations with world-class training facilities and coaches.
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Environmental Education Adventure Centre
Kippure Estate’s Environmental Education Centre is located deep in the heart of the stunning Wicklow Mountains. Specialising in providing the best Physical Education trips for children of all ages and exceptional Geography and Biology visits too.
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Argentina School Trips
7-21 days
The Outdoor Vibe offers outdoor adventures across Argentina with a focus on creating adventurous, fun and educational trips no matter the key subject matter or objectives of the trip. Subjects include sports, music, science, geography & Spanish
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Football Tours with Equity
A football tour with Equity delivers everything on your wish list: professional coaches, world-famous clubs and elite training facilities. Our bespoke tours are geared to improving and inspiring your team.
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Finland Become a Champion
6 Days
This is an Exclusive package and only available to our School Groups. The week places emphasis on finding the champion within. Giving students the opportunity to try their hand at a host of activities which feature in the Winter Olympics.
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Experience Valencias top-notch sporting facilities
4-12 days
Valencias unique sporting vibe and idyllic climate make it ideal to practice sports all year round. Top notch sports facilities for all types of sports.
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Summer Camp in Costa Rica
7 days
Spanish Camp is a full-immersion experience that integrates the Spanish language into all aspects of the program, including community service, sports, and cultural activities.
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Activity and Adventure at Club Correze
CLUB CORREZE programmes are designed to introduce young people to an array of exciting new experiences. These new experiences can reveal and stimulate hidden skills and aptitudes and provide essential elements for each child’s personal development....
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Sports Tours To Jersey
5 Days
The Jersey Games is a festival for 10-13 year olds and offers professional sports coaching, a final day tournament and exciting excursions.
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Sweden Winter Ski Adventure
This is a ski trip with a difference. Here you can ski far later in the season, with departures from February until mid April! It’s a packed agenda and includes everything you and your students need for a unique adventure...
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Ardeche Adventure
6-9 Days
Experience exceptional school adventure trips based on the banks of the Ardèche River. If you're looking for an affordable, action-packed school activity trip, look no further! We can create a bespoke programme designed for the ultimate fun. ...
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Rugby Tours at Club Correze
Rugby is at the heart of Club Correze. The owner, Ged Glynn, has coached London Irish, England Under 21s, England A and the Spanish National Team. He is currently Head of Rugby Operations for Leicester Tigers.
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Sports Tours To South Africa
10 - 20 days
A bespoke sports tour to South Africa is the perfect blend of rich culture, history, exciting excursions, entertainment and of course high level sport. Top class facilities, coaches and fixtures with welcoming hosts and life changing experiences.
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Hockey Tour
Edwin Doran provide a selection of excellent overseas school sports tours.Starting as close as Belgium and going all the way over to Australia. So wherever you're looking to go, Edwin Doran will certainly have a school sports tour for you!
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Greek Watersports Adventure
7-14 days
Our philosophy is simple: we believe that everything is more fun when it’s on, or by, the water. That’s why all our beautiful resorts are right on the shores of clear, warm blue waters and stacked with the latest free-to-use sports equipment.
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Rugby Tours with Equity
Equity rugby tours offer the perfect mix of training and competitive fixtures to enhance your team’s performance. With access to premium facilities our rugby programme offers tailor-made trips that include excursions to local attractions.
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Alpine Summer Adventure
7-14 days
At Alpine Elements we think that mountains are for life, not just for winter. Anyone who’s been knows that summer in the Alps is a magical experience: the grass is lush and green, the air is sweet and cool and the mountains are vast and waiting.
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Culture and Adventure Activities Portugal
Imagine yourself discovering a beautiful country like Portugal while experiencing the most exciting and amazing adventure activities! We want all our participants to develop such skills as leadership, cooperation while overcoming their barriers.
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Austria – Alpine Adventure
6-8 Days
Experience exceptional school adventure trips in the stunning, natural Austrian Alps. If you're looking for an affordable, action-packed school activity trip, look no further! We can create a bespoke programme designed for the ultimate fun.
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Switzerland Adventure
Come and experience a School Adventure with a real difference. A level of service we feel you will struggle to beat. From your first enquiry right through to getting back to School and beyond.
Our Adventures really do have the 'Atlas Difference'
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Most school sports tour companies will have established links and great relationships with schools or clubs in the destinations they feature. For this reason, many of them are able to offer you the choice when it comes to your group's accommodation. Some schools like to stay together and bond as a group, while others choose to place students with local hosts so that they can really get under the skin of the place they are visiting, develop a deeper cultural understanding, and make life long friendships.
An important part of any school sports tour are the competitive matches against local teams. Your school group will receive expert coaching as part of the package, developing their skills and knowledge of their chosen sport. However, no sports tour would be complete without a competitive game or three! Your team will be given plenty of opportunity to put what they learn into practice, testing their skills against well matched opponents.
The school sports tour specialists that we work with have been arranging successful tours for decades and have developed links with schools all over the world. If we say Rugby you may think South Africa. Cricket we associate with Australia, and Football with Germany. In fact you can choose from many different countries, perhaps to tie in with language objectives, or simply to suit your school's budget. You may also wish to take in more than one destination in the true spirit of a tour!
Although the sport is the most important aspect of your school tour, when you are not training or competing, there will be opportunities to see more of the place you staying in. All the tours we offer include the chance to spend time on your trip visiting local attractions and landmarks. What tour of Dubai would be complete without a trip into the desert, or New York without a city tour.
"Schools can be as flexible as they like with their sports tours. All our sports tours are tailor made to suit the group, and all quotes are based on the requirements of the school in question. A typical Soccer Tour to Spain can include fixtures for other sports, such as Rugby, Basketball and Hockey, an educational visit to Barcelona with qualified guide and tour of the Nou Camp (Barcelona FC), organised coaching sessions from Espanyol Club Coaches, plus a full day excursion."
David Pinder, Director
Ski and Sport Travel
"Our primary audience for school sports tours are secondary school groups. Within secondary school group tours we have two distinct tour types. Sport for all: Open to all that are enthusiastic to get involved and experience sport. Perfect for team building, confidence and sport development. Trips for Squads: For those looking to take away their sports teams to challenge and improve. We find the beginning of the year is the best time to take away a squad as they will bond with their team members and by training with top international coaches will learn skills they can continue to develop over the course of the year."
Ben Reynolds, International Manager for Sport
Inspiring Learning
"Young football players that burst on to the scene cannot escape the attentions of the world's media. At Trans World Soccer we like to give everyone, regardless of ability, a true superstar media experience to provide a flavour of what like at the top is really like. All players will receive comprehensive media training in a variety of roles, and will work together in small teams to document their experience on a daily basis. These updates will be uploaded to Trans World Soccer’s social media accounts, allowing family members at home to see daily updates from the trip, and giving children valuable experience in communication, collaboration and 21st century journalism."
Scott Macfarlane
Trans World Soccer
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