European giants Borussia Dortmund headline an impressive list of football clubs from all across the world who will make their way to the five-star La Manga Club resort to showcase their talents in the first three months of 2015.

Dortmund will be joined at Spain's flagship resort this month by Belgian title contenders Anderlecht, while La Manga Club is set to host other leading names from the men's and women's games as well as some of football's next generation of stars with a number of international teenage tournaments.

It will be the fourth year in a row that Dortmund's first-team squad has used La Manga Club's world-class facilities for a warm-weather training break and Jürgen Klopp's players - who will face Juventus in the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League next month – will be hoping for some much-needed inspiration after struggling in the first half of the current Bundesliga, sitting next to bottom at the mid-season break.

Anderlecht are staying at the Murcia resort from January 6-11 and will use their trip to help them continue their assault on the Belgian Pro League title and the UEFA Europa League, where they have been drawn against Dinamo Moscow in the last-32 stage.

The likes of Dynamo Zagreb, CSKA Moscow, top Peruvian side Allianz Lima, the Sweden national women's team and Mamelodi Sundowns – the first South African club to visit the resort – will add to the international flavour along with a collection of leading Scandinavian clubs, while La Manga Club is set to be a hotbed of teenage footballing talent with a series of important events taking place over the coming months.

Scouts from all over Europe are poised to flock to the award-winning destination in January and February with Germany's U17 side and U19 teams from Portugal, Turkey Norway and Slovakia all putting their skills on display.

And La Manga Club will also be the destination for the Ukraine, Austrian, Qatari and Uzbekistan Under-20 sides from March 25 to April 12 as they play a mini-tournament and continue their preparations for the FIFA U20 World Cup, which starts in New Zealand at the end of May.

With extensive facilities including eight international standard grass pitches, La Manga Club has made a name for itself as a first-choice destination for a football training break, with teams including Real Madrid, Liverpool, Shakhtar Donetesk and the England Women's team among the star names to have used the facilities in recent years.

As well as its football training amenities, the resort boasts a fully equipped gym and indoor swimming pool, ideal for recovery sessions; a host of rooms and spaces to cater for tactical meetings, private team dining and a new High Performance Sports Centre, where players can use the most advanced technology possible to study all aspects of their health and training programmes.

Set in 1,400 acres, La Manga Club boasts unrivalled facilities as a sports and leisure destination including three 18-hole championship golf courses, a 28-court tennis centre and a 2,000sqm spa and fitness centre. It also offers the choice of a five-star hotel, four-star serviced apartments and townhouses and more than 20 bars and restaurants.

For more information about professional sports breaks at La Manga Club, contact Chad Harpur on +34 968 33 1234, email chad.harpur@lamangaclub.com. For further details about La Manga Club, visit www.lamangaclub.com.

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Press release written and distributed on behalf of La Manga Club by the Azalea Group.

La Manga Club
La Manga Club – www.lamangaclub.com – is an unrivalled sports and leisure paradise which sits between the low hills that separate the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor Sea, just 20 minutes from Murcia airport and an hour from Alicante.

Set out over an area of some 560 hectares (approx. 1,400 acres), it enjoys a mild year-round Mediterranean climate and offers visitors a prestigious five-star hotel, luxury vacation apartments and extensive sports facilities, including three championship golf courses, a new Leadbetter Golf Academy – the only one in mainland Spain – a 28-court tennis centre and eight grass sports pitches. The resort is also home to innumerable leisure facilities, such as the 2,000m2 Spa La Manga Club with its 13 luxurious treatment rooms, comprehensive fitness centre and 25m indoor swimming pool; meeting, banqueting and incentive facilities, and more than 20 restaurants and bars.

As well as hosting both Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, La Manga Club has signed a long-term deal to be the overseas training resort of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) until 2016. It has also staged the Spanish Open golf championship and regularly attracts professional and international football teams to the first-class year-round training facilities which are also used by rugby and cricket sides.

As a result of more than 40 years of continued investment, innovation and commitment to excellence, La Manga Club is widely recognised as Spain's flagship resort and as one of the finest sports and lifestyle destinations in the world. Evidence of this is provided by its numerous awards and accolades.

La Manga Club was the proud recipient of a 2013 Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel website, for the facilities and service on offer at its five-star Hotel Principe Felipe. The resort has been voted 'Best Golf Hotel/Resort in Spain' by UK readers of Today's Golfer magazine for the last three years and was named 'Best Golf Hotel in Spain' at the 2014 World Golf Awards. La Manga Club has long been a staunch supporter of women's golf, being the official overseas resort partner of the English Women's Golf Association for three years as well as hosting the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School from 2009-12. La Manga Club is also the venue for the Ladies Murcia Open, an LET Access Series event, and regularly hosts top women's amateur events and teams.

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For more information on La Manga Club contact Pete Simm on 01730 711920 or email petes@theazaleagroup.com