History

2024 Laureus Sport For Good Award The Rafa Nadal Foundation has been awarded the Laureus Sport For Good Award for its work using sports as a tool for social transformation. This award was presented in Madrid at a ceremony filled with prominent sports figures. Rafael Nadal becomes a five-time Laureus award winner and the first […]

2023 Play All Project The Rafa Nadal Foundation continues to grow and has launched a new project in Barcelona managed in collaboration with the Tennis Barcelona Foundation and with the support of Nike. With this new program, it supports over 100 minors in vulnerable situations, aged between 5 and 16, from different neighborhoods in the

2022 I Rafa Nadal Foundation Awards The Rafa Nadal Foundation continues to promote new projects to improve people’s quality of life. The first call for the Rafa Nadal Foundation Awards is launched to help promote social initiatives developed by non-profit entities that work in five different areas: sport, education, health and well-being, social innovation and

2021 Rafa Nadal Foundation Center in Madrid. The flagship project of the Rafa Nadal Foundation continues to grow and the Rafa Nadal Foundation Center is born in Madrid, in the San Fermín neighborhood, Usera district, one of the most vulnerable areas of the capital. We serve girls, boys and young people through sports, educational activities

2020 New normal. The Rafa Nadal Foundation has had to adapt its intervention to the health crisis derived from covid-19. We continue to serve minors and families of the Rafa Nadal Foundation Centers despite the circumstances, through financial aid for the acquisition of basic food and hygiene products.

2019 The Rafa Nadal Foundation Center in Valencia is born. The Rafa Nadal Foundation Center in Valencia opens in the Natzaret neighbourhood, one of the most disadvantaged areas of the city. In this center we serve minors in vulnerable situations through sports, educational activities and psychosocial support.

2018 The Rafa Nadal Foundation projects continue to be active. All the programs carried out by the foundation continue to work successfully and the IV National Meeting More Than Tennis is held, where athletes with intellectual disabilities from all over Spain meet and compete.

2017 Millor Together race. The popular race “Millor Junts” is born, held in the city of Palma de Mallorca. Beyond promoting healthy physical activity and the values of sport, this sports initiative suitable for the whole family aims to raise funds for the Rafa Nadal Foundation Centre.

2016 All active projects and the third More Than Tennis Meeting. All the projects of the Rafa Nadal Foundation are active and the third More Than Tennis National Meeting is held in which athletes with intellectual disabilities from all over Spain compete.

2015 First International Gala and Study&Play begins. The first International Gala of the foundation is held in Paris with the aim of raising funds for its projects and the Study&Play scholarship program begins to support young athletes and students at US universities.