The infantil team of Catalana Occident plays the previous round of the Minicopa Endesa

L'Alqueria del Basket, the sports center that hosts the entire Valencia Basket youth teams, will host the previous phase of the next Minicopa Endesa between December 6 and 8. There sixteen children's teams -representing the Liga Endesa clubs- will compete to get one of the six places in the final phase of the tournament that will be played in Malaga on the occasion of the Copa del Rey (February 13-16, 2020). For this final appointment, Real Madrid, as the current champion, and Unicaja, as host, are already classified. Up to eight matches of the qualifying round, all played on the central court, can be followed live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter through official ACB profiles.

The teams participating in this previous phase have been distributed in four groups of four sets that will play in regular league format one lap (3 days). The six places in competition for the final phase will be awarded as follows:

• The leader of each group will be classified directly once the regular phase is over.
• The remaining two places will be decided in the direct qualifiers that will play the second classified on Sunday, December 8: 2nd Group A against 2nd Group B and 2nd Group C against 2nd Group D.

The infantil team of Catalana Occident Manresa is framed in group C of the competition, together with Cajasiete Canarias, Casademont Zaragoza and Cenor Obradoiro. The Bages team will debut at Friday at 6.30 pm against the Aragonese. Saturday at 10.30 in the morning they will play against the Galicians and the same day at 16.30, with the Canaries.