The WinterLeague is a football event established in Turkey, Antalya. The aim is to organize professional preparation competitive matches for football teams all around the globe and conventions that provide a platform for expertise to share their game related experiences through forums, expo, side events and education.
Since our inception in the year 2015 to 2022 the Winter League has had rapid development and have hosted over 30 teams from 15 different countries who have played over 45 competitive matches. Some crowed champions at the Winterleague unique football events include SK Sturm Graz, Nk Maribor.
WinterLeague offers teams live streaming and broadcasting options so they may reach their fans across the globe. Furthermore, the WinterLeague and the WL Convention garnered a combined 230,000 YouTube views, 18,750,000 Web News visits, and 580,000 engagements with print media in its inaugural year.
ANTALYA
Antalya is the fifth biggest city in Turkey and share the leadership of tourism with Istanbul. Antalya is known for tourism and hospitality and it has a four season weather all year long. Besides cultural tourism Antalya provides guest the opportunity to enjoy the sea, sport, health, winter camps, congress, and religious tourism with its many suitable ancient and historic places.
At the center of Antalya there is a harbour and the surroundings is popularly known as Kaleiçi (oldcity) where you can find many boutique Hotels, restaurants, bars, discotheques, churches, historical mosques and antique city walls.
Antalya provides many different sport facilities such as football, golf and tennis. Therefore every year thousands of sport professionals visit Antalya for their training camps. Antalya does not only provide sportive facilities and accommodations, it also hosts international seminars, conventions and congresses.
The reason many sport teams prefer Antalya is the climate conditions. During the winter, the temperature in Antalya ranges between 10 – 22 degree Celsius and the weather is mostly sunny. These conditions are very suitable for professional trainee of many sport teams.
In year 2009-2010 Antalya entertained sport organizations in football, golf, tennis, judo, eskrim, halter, volleyball, badminton, etc. The hosted events included 39 international, 66 national, 27 national team camp and 45 course and seminars. In total 177 organizations took place in Antalya. Antalya also hosted the G-20 Summit in 2015 and EXPO in 2016.
BELEK
Belek is a touristic town in Antalya which is half an hour away from Antalya city center. The Local population is around 5000. There are more than 40 five star hotels and a few four star Hotels in Belek. All of the hotels and resorts hotels have nice beaches, congress and meeting halls, sport facilities, football fields, and animation teams which provides guest with concerts and entertainment.
There are many Golf fields in Belek with developing sport facilities with yearly rapid growth. Turkish Airlines organize the THY World Golf Tournament yearly in Belek.
Besides Golf more than 20 hotels have football fields which provides training pitch facilities and friendly game possibilities for various football teams.
Nearby Belek there are historical places like Hellenistic Perge, Aspendos and Side. All these places are between 20 minutes and 40 minutes distance to Belek. Perge is an ancient city with its city ruins from Roman Empire, Aspendos is ancient theatre with 20.000 seating capacity from Roman Empire.
Side is also a famous ancient city with its theatre and Apollon Temple at the sea side.