C.D. Leganés, together with LALIGA, will hold the first edition of Mascot Olympics on Sunday 19th November. For the first time in the history of Spanish football, the mascots of the LALIGA clubs will come together to recreate a show in the Estadio Municipal Butarque, where they will compete to be the best mascot of Spanish football.
There will be six competitions in these Olympic Games for mascots. The first of them will consist of a 100m steeplechase; the second will be the queen of all events, the 100m sprint; the third, a peculiar cucumber throw; the fourth, an MLS-style penalty shootout in which each mascot will try to beat a Goalkeeper of Legend; the fifth, a relay race; and the sixth and last one will be a virtual event in which the public will vote online for their favourite mascot during the days prior to the competition.
Tickets for 3€ for C.D. Leganés members and 5€ for the general public.
The event can be seen live on Sunday 19th November at the Estadio Municipal Butarque from 12PM, and tickets are priced at €5 for the general public (buy your ticket here) and €3 for C.D. Leganés members (buy your ticket here). Tickets can be purchased online through the club’s official website or at the offices of the Estadio Municipal Butarque from Monday to Friday from 10AM to 8PM.
In the run-up to the event, various activities will take place around the stadium, which will be confirmed in the coming days. In addition, all attendees will be able to have their photograph taken with some of the mascots taking part in the competition if they purchase their ticket with that option.
“We are very happy to be able to welcome all the mascots of professional football to Butarque”
The president of C.D. Leganés, Jeff Luhnow, was very excited to be able to hold this event for the first time in history in Leganés: “We are very happy to be able to welcome all the mascots of professional football to Butarque. We want people to have a great day in our stadium and enjoy this event that we are preparing together with LALIGA with great affection. Hopefully this will be the first of many. I wish a lot of luck to all the mascots and especially to SuperPepino”.
For his part, Óscar Mayo, Executive General Manager of LALIGA, highlighted the initiative of C.D. Leganés: “Collective actions are the ones that reinforce our brand image. This Mascot Olympics is a demonstration of creativity, but also a demonstration of the strength of our football brands,” he said. Finally, Mayo invited everyone to join this initiative: “We would love to see lots of people in Butarque, enjoying the LALIGA clubs”.
