Elche of 2025/26 begins to take its first steps. With the only official renewal of Eder Sarabiawhich will remain linked to the entity until June 2027, the club has communicated this Thursday the first brushstrokes of what will be its preseason in the city's return to the First Division.
Template and coaching staff will return from their month of vacation the first week of July, specifically on Saturday 5. It will be the first step in the start of the course preparation. The players are summoned in Martínez Valero to complete the corresponding medical tests And thus evaluate the physical state, detect possible injuries and adjust the workload from the beginning of the preseason.
As announced by the club in its official channels, on the same Saturday 5 the Franjiverde template will carry out its First contact with ball. The session, like the rest of the pre -campaign, will take place in the José Díez Iborrasince the stadium grass Martínez Valero He is being subjected to his usual summer remedy.
After the first reunion, Elche will complete Two entire weeks alternating physical work in the Martínez Valero gym with field sessions at Díez Iborra. It will be from July 7 to 20, thus completing the 15 days of the preparation.
Then, the franjiverde expedition will start the first of the two concentration stages that it will carry out. It will be in The Golf & Spa Resort Towera high -level sports complex located in Murcia, in which the Ilicitano team will complete a first concentration far from the seven -day house, of the July 21 to 27.
The dates
July 5: Medical tests and first training
July 7 to 20: First two weeks in Elche
July 21 to 27: Stage Week at the Golf & Spa Resort Tower
July 28 to August 4: Fourth week in Elche
August 4-10: Stage Week at the Resort estate
August 15: Start of the First Division
*Friendly are still confirmed
After this first displacement, Elche will return to its facilities to develop the fourth week of training, July 28 to August 3. To finish the preseason, the set trained by Sarabia will move to the facilities of The resort farmlocated in Algorfa, where the club already completed two different stages last summer. This second concentration will take place among the August 4 and 10fifth week of preseason and Prior to the beginning of the First Divisionwhich will give the starting gun on the weekend from August 15 to 17.
13 first team players
Today, there are 13 players of the first template that will be presented on July 5 to complete medical tests. David Affengruber, Bambo Diaby, John Chetauya, Pedro Bigas, Jairo Izquierdo, Álvaro Núñez, Marc Aguado, Aleix Febas, Rodrigo Mendoza, Nico Castro, Fernández Mercau, Yago de Santiago y Mouradare the only players with contract in the first Franjiverde team, a list to which you could add Josan Ferrández In the next few days, his renewal was on track.
The central will be incorporated to this list Matia Barzicwhich will be tested during the summer before making a decision about your future. In addition, it can also be integrated into the pre -season by the fast track Rafa Núñez. The end has already been eliminated virtually from the Gold Cup with Dominican Republicwith which the option to be incorporated later into the Ilicitan preparation.
Rafa Núñez and Matia Barzic serve Sarabia during a training at Díez Iborra. / ECF / Jesús Hernández
As it happened last season, the first days of the preseason will have a great presence of players of the Ilicitano. In fact, last summer during the first friendlies, The participation of around a dozen base soccer players was common.
Calendar slopes
Both Elche and the remaining 19 teams that make up the First Division are found Waiting for the official calendar officer of the season by LaLiga. This is delaying more than expected waiting for if Mirandés o Real Oviedo They complete the remaining square in the category.
At this point, last year the order of matches of the 38 days was already known, although it was not yet known if it was Oviedo or Espanyol who would compete in First. However, The situation for the incoming season is different. The Mirandés has already announced that he will compete in Mendizorroza until November, a habitual home of Alavés, since in Anduva a series of “Recount works” of the stadium.
This has made LaLig Two teams should be cut in the same stadium for two and a half months. A condition that will disappear if Oviedo finally amounts to, which is worth winning in Carlos Tartiere to return to the elite.
