Leiria 2025
What?
10 Teams: Mixed men & women, 18 athletes in each team, focus on team
tactics and strategy
4 x 2.5 hour matches: Fast paced sequence of events, only one event at a time
12 disciplines: Focus on run, jump & throw, traditional & new formats presented in a
new way
Easy scoring: Everything counts, 2 to 12 points for each event – 12 points 1st place to
2 points 6th place
Winner: The last event (the Hunt) will decide the winning team
CZE, ESP, EST, FRA, GBR, IRL, ITA, POR, POR, SUI
When?
20-21 September 2024
Where?
Dr. Magalhães Pessoa Stadium, Leiria, Portugal
Downloadable Documents
Team Manual DNA Leiria 2025
Final Entries DNA Leiria 2025
Provisional Start Lists DNA Leiria 2025
Meet the Teams: LG Oberthurgau
19 September 2025
Based at the Tellenfeld Sport Facility in the country town of Amriswil in the northeast of Switzerland close to Lake Constance, the small club LG Oberthurgau (membership 120) has distinguished itself for more than a decade as one of the country’s athletics success stories, in terms of both supporting young talent and of national-level performance, especially in the U20 category.
Since the club’s establishment in 1999, LG Oberthurgau has developed more than a dozen athletes who have gone on to represent Switzerland internationally, including the 2014 European champion in the 400m hurdles Kariem Hussein…
Meet the Teams: Sporting Clube de Portugal
18 September 2025
Considered one of the country’s big-three multi-sport clubs, the Lisbon-based Sporting Clube de Portugal was founded in 1906 and, like its football team, the athletics department has been in continuous operation since then.
Sporting Clube de Portugal’s all-time top athletes include the 1984 Olympic marathon gold medallist Carlos Lopes and other Olympians such as Fernando Mamede, Domingos Castro, Rui Silva, Francis Obikwelu and Naide Gomes…
Meet the Teams: Blackheath and Bromley
17 September 2025
Blackheath & Bromley Harriers Athletic Club, to give its full name, is one of the oldest and most successful athletics clubs in the United Kingdom. Based at the Norman Park Community Sports Centre in southeast London, it is run mainly by dedicated volunteers whose vision is to be widely regarded as a highly successful, professionally managed, exemplar athletics club that enhances the lives of its members and the local community.
Its history stretches all the way back to 1869 and the club has gone through a number of changes over the years. Originally a men’s only organisation, it first welcomed women in 1992 and took its current name upon a merger in 2003…
Meet the Teams: Athlétisme Metz Metropole
15 September 2025
Based at the Stade Saint-Symphorien in Longeville-lès-Metz just outside the northeastern French city of Metz, Athlétisme Metz Metropole was established in 2004 in a fusion of the athletics divisions from two existing local multi-sport clubs, both of which date back to 1960.
Strongly supported by the Ville de Metz (City of Metz) and the administrative Department de la Moselle, the club’s mission is to encourage the practice of all forms of athletics, at all levels and for all ages. It has a membership of over 900, including 425 in its athletics school for children, and specialises in organising competitions, including the Metz Moslle Athlelor, ranked the world’s fifth best indoor meeting of 2025 by World Athletics…
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Meet the Teams: Atletismo Alcorcón
14 September 2025
Founded in 1993 and based in the city of Alcorcón, approximately 14 kilometres west of the capital Madrid, Atletismo Alcorcón is traditionally one of Spain’s top eight clubs in the U20 category and its membership currently includes 220 athletes plus 330 students in its associated athletics school.
Over the years, Atletismo Alcorcón has been home to a number of athletes who have represented Spain internationally including sprinter-long jumper Laura Martínez, who earned a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships and though still only 18 years old has already taken part in both the European and World U20 championships….
Meet the Teams: SK Elite
12 September 2025
Established in 1996 by Erki Nool, one of Estonia’s greatest-ever athletes who would go on to win the decathlon gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the SK Elite club, together with its wholly owned athletics school (Erki Noole Kergejõustikukooli), currently serves approximately 400 athletes.
With a mission to develop youngsters of high school age and below – the club has few members over 23 years old – the Tallinn-based SK Elite caters for all athletic disciplines but, in line with its founder’s special interest, devotes particular attention to supporting pole vaulters…
Clash of the Clubs IV
Meet the Teams: AK Skoda Plzen
11 September 2025
Currently Czechia’s largest athletics club, AK Skoda Plzen counts more than 1,400 members and, in line with its focus on the U18 and U20 age groups, approximately 1,100 of these are teenagers or younger.
Perennially successful, the club took over 220 national championship medals in the years 2022 to 2024. Its recent international stars include Jan Stefela, the 2025 European Indoor Championships high jump silver medallist, and Petra Sicakova, the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships javelin silver medallist…
Meet the Teams: Ratoath
8 September 2025
Founded in 1971 with a mission to nurture and support young talent and currently boasting a membership of 600, Ratoath Athletic Club is one of Ireland’s most dynamic and successful athletics clubs, engaging its loyal community of athletes, families and friends through a strong online presence.
The club has received numerous awards for its efforts and accomplishments, including “Development Club of the Year 2023” given by Irish Athletics for work with young athletes and the Ratoath Municipal District’s “Civic Achievement Award” for successfully representing the town at last year’s Clash of the Clubs in Pombal…
8 September 2025
With just under two weeks left until the first starting pistol is fired, organisers in Leiria, Portugal, are putting final touches on preparations for the fourth edition of the Dynamic New Athletics (DNA) U20 Clubs, dubbed the Clash of the Clubs IV, which will take place at the Dr Magalhães Pessoa Stadium on 20 and 21 September.
Meet the Teams: Rieti26
6 September 2025
The team competing at the Clash of the Clubs in Leiria as Rieti26 is a rebrand of one of Italy’s top athletics clubs, Studentesca Andrea Milardi, that is intended to celebrate and promote the staging of next year’s European Athletics U18 Championship in the club’s home city of Rieti.
Athletes from the club have amassed nearly 1,100 Italian championship medals and more than 100 of them have gone on to compete in the blue jersey of the Italian national team…
Clash of the Clubs IV
Meet the Teams: Juventude Vidigalense
4 September 2025
Started by three teenagers as a youth running club in 1986, Juventude Vidigalense was formally established in 1992 and developed quickly, its senior team reaching the first division of Portugal’s national team championships for the first time in the year 2000 and its athletes regularly taking national championship medals and setting national records in all age groups.
Currently boasting approximately 1500 members, it is one of Portugal’s largest and most active athletics clubs. Over the years it has made its home base of Leiria a major national centre for the sport….
Get ready! The Clash of the Clubs IV is coming
25 July 2025
The brilliant 2025 summer of international competition opportunities for Europe’s young athletes will draw to a close as one of the Portugal’s top athletics centres and tourist destinations, the coastal city of Leiria, stages the fourth edition of the Dynamic New Athletics (DNA) U20 Clubs, dubbed the Clash of the Clubs, on 20 and 21 September.
Following the excitement of the European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, NOR and the U20 Championships in Tampere, FIN, the focus will turn to club athletes, who will get their chance to shine in team competition at its best in a unique live-streamed event that has become an end-of-season tradition….
