St Peter under 14s hope to travel to Spain to play matches against youth squads from Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, PSG and Juventus.

The inaugural Madrid Cup 2025 will be played over five days in June 2025, with more than 700 teams competing from across the world.

The Jersey team will also get the chance to train with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, take guided tours around each club's stadiums, and have a guided cultural tour of Madrid & Alcala de Henares.

However, the 'once-in-a-lifetime-trip' comes with a hefty price tag of an estimated £2,600 per player.

Head Coach Nigel Godfrey is aware that will be unaffordable for some families, so the club has begun fundraising with the hope of making sure all children in the squad can travel.

He told Channel 103 that will mean finding £18,000.

 The trip will include a visit to the famous Bernabeu stadium, home to Real Madrid.

 "The boys have taken their own initiative with fundraising.

"On the 21 December, we've got a static bikeathon in Grand Marche St Helier which will start our fundraising ball rolling, and we're going to arrange a tournament against other teams in Jersey and bring over teams from the UK and Guernsey.

"They've come up with lots of ideas; bingo nights, quiz nights, car washing...

"Somehow we need to raise those funds, and the more we raise the less the parents have to dip into their own pockets.

"We've got a really decent bunch (of players).  The majority of them at the club we've had since they were four years old. We've been away quite often and done really well. We won the Southampton Cup at the home of the Southampton FC.

We've also been over to France to visit Chartres-de-Bretagne, a place associated with Rennes FC who are in Ligue Un."

The 'MadCup25' is being  held in Madrid from 20th – 26th June 2025.

For further contributions, the club has opened a Race Nation Sports Giving account here.