The institutions that support the Barcelona candidacy have wanted to recognize the quality of all the headquarters that have held, next to the City Condal, to become the headquarters of the 37th edition of the Copa América de Vela (Photo RFEV)

Barcelona has been designated to host the 37th edition of the American Vela Cup to be held in 2024, as announced today in Barcelona Grant Dalton, CEO of Emirates Team New Zealand.

Emirates Team New Zealand is the winning team of the last edition of the American Vela Cup, held in Auckland in 2021, and has the organizational rights of the 37th edition of this world reference event.

Barcelona has been selected for the quality of the port facilities, the diversity of spaces for competition, its experience in hosting major sports events, its commitment to water sports and its educational and leisure offer.

The economic support of the institutions - Generalitat de Catalunya and Barcelona City Council - together with the contribution of a group of private investors, all led by Barcelona & Partners, the investment agency of the Barcelona Global Association that has promoted and designed the candidacy, have been other aspects that have leaned the balance in favor of Barcelona.

The organizers of the 37th edition of the Copa América have thus valued the public-private collaboration demonstrated in the candidacy, the infrastructures that Barcelona already has and will set in motion for the event and the strength of the Barcelona brand.

The announcement of the designation of Barcelona as the headquarters of the 2024 Copa América de Vela has been celebrated in the city, whose institutions have very positively valued this decision, calling this a great news for the profile and legacy of the city.

The first estimates indicate that the American Vela Cup in Barcelona would have an economic impact of between $900 and $1 billion. The previous competition, held in Auckland, generated important economic and cultural benefits and attracted a media audience of 940 million viewers.

The celebration of this prestigious sports event will attract about 2,500 people from the sports and organization teams of the event, who will spend many months in the city, organizing the competition. In addition to the teams that compete in the Copa América, for the first time in the history of this competition, there will be the race of the Copa América Mujemenina, as well as the popular race of the Copa América Juvenil.

In parallel to the event in Barcelona, the edition will have the Hydrogen Project, focused on the development of hydrogen engines for support boats.