Camp Nou is the largest football stadium in Europe and home to FC Barcelona. It has a capacity of 99,354 seats. Camp Nou was built between 1954 and 1957, and officially opened on the 24th of September 1957. The first match was played between FC Barcelona and a selection of [...]
Campos de Sport de El Sardinero is the home of Real Racing Club de Santander. The stadium has a capacity of 22,222 seats. El Sardinero opened on the 20th of August 1988. It replaced Racing’s previous ground with the same name. The first match was played between Racing and Oviedo. [...]
Coliseum Alfonso Pérez is the home of Getafe CF. The stadium has a capacity of 17,500 seats. After Getafe had celebrated several successes in the 1980s and early 90s the club decided to build a new stadium to replace their old, and too small, Estadio Las Margaritas. After having played [...]
Estadi Ciutat de València is the home of Levante UD. The stadium has a capacity of 25,352 seats. In the late 1950s Levante decided to build a new stadium to replace their old Estadio de Vallejo. It took however over ten years for plans to get approved and construction to [...]
Estadi Cornellà-El Prat is the recently built new home of Real Club Deportivo Espanyol. The stadium has a capacity of 40,500 seats. The plans for the construction of a new stadium were presented in 2002, with the ceremonial first stone laid in 2003. It took until the end of 2005 [...]
Estadio Anoeta is the home of Real Sociedad. The stadium has a capacity of 32,000 seats. Estadio Anoeta opened on the 13th of August 1993 and replaced Real Sociedad’s previous home Estadio de Atocha which had become too small and outdated for the times. The stadium served as a host [...]
Estadio Benito Villamarín is the home stadium of Real Betis Balompié. It has a capacity of 56,500 seats. The stadium opened in 1929 under the name of Estadio de Heliópolis. The stadium was gradually developed between 1958 and 1982, with some major redevelopments being performed for the 1982 World Cup. [...]
Estadio de Los Cármenes is the home of Granada CF. The stadium has a capacity of 22,500 seats. Estadio de Los Cármenes opened on the 16th of May 1995. The first match at the stadium was played between Real Madrid and Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Home side Granada played its first [...]
Estadio (Camp) de Mestalla is the home stadium of Valencia CF. It has a capacity of 55,000 seats. The stadium opened on the 20th of May 1923 with a friendly between Valencia and Levante. Initially the stadium could house 17,000 fans, but this was quickly increased to 25,000. During the [...]
Estadio El Madrigal is the home of Villarreal CF. It currently has a capacity of 25,000 seats. The stadium was opened on the 17th of June 1923 with a match between CD Castellón and El Cervantes. The stadium started with the name Campo del Villarreal, but this was soon changed [...]
Estadio El Molinón is one of the oldest football stadiums of Spain and home to Real Sporting de Gijón. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 seats. Though it is likely that football had been played at the site before, first reference to the stadium was made in May 1908 [...]
Estadio La Romareda is the home of Real Zaragoza. The stadium has a capacity of 34,596 seats. Estadio La Romareda opened on the 8th of September 1957 with a match between Real Zaragoza and Osasuna (4-3). The stadium received a major upgrade in 1977 and 1982, the latter in preparation [...]
Estadio La Rosaleda is the home stadium of Málaga CF. It offers a capacity of 28,963 seats. The first stone of the stadium was laid on the 21st of June 1936, however due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War it took four years for construction works to actually [...]
Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán is the home of Sevilla FC. The stadium has a capacity of 45,500 seats. Even though the land on which the stadium was to be built had already been bought for the purpose in 1937, it took until 1954 before first steps were taken to construct [...]
Estadio Reyno de Navarro, until 2005 called El Sadar, is the home stadium of CA Osasuna. It has a capacity of 19,800 seats. The stadium opened on the 2nd of September 1967. Previously Osasuna had been playing its matches at the Campo de San Juan. The club paid 10 million [...]
Estadio San Mamés, nicknamed La Catedral, is the home of Athletic Club (de Bilbao). The stadium has a capacity of 40,000 seats. Construction of the stadium began in 1912 and on the 21st of August 1913 the stadium officially opened with a match between Athletic Club and the Spanish champions [...]
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu is the third largest stadium of Europe and home to Real Madrid CF. It currently has a capacity of 85,454 seats. In the early decades of the 20th century Real Madrid played first at Campo De O’Donnell and then at Campo Chamartin, when in 1943 Madrid-president Santiago [...]
Estadio Vicente Calderón is the home stadium of Club Atlético de Madrid. It currently has a capacity of 54,960 seats. In the first half of the 20th century Atlético played its home matches at the Estadio Metropolitano, but by the late 1950s that stadium had proved too small and outdated [...]
The Iberostar Estadio, until 2004 called Son Moix, is home to RCD Mallorca. The stadium has a capacity of 23,142 seats. Son Moix was built for the 1999 Universiade that was held at Palma de Mallorca. Already before the start of the Universiade, Real Mallorca had obtained the rights to [...]
Houston Celebrate Opening of BBVA Compass Stadium
On Saturday the Houston Dynamo’s new stadium, the BBVA Compass Stadium, officially opened with a match between the Dynamo and DC United. The Dynamo celebrated the opening with a 1-0 win over the visitors from Washington DC. The BBVA Compass Stadium is [...]
Boca Juniors Wants to Build a New Stadium
Boca Juniors president Daniel Angelici has confirmed that the club is currently looking into the options of building a new stadium. The president did this in a radio interview while in Spain looking for investors in the club. He right away went into further detail [...]
Chelsea Submit Bid for Battersea Station Site
Chelsea’s interest in the Battersea Power Station site as a potential location for a future new stadium has been no secret, but the club has now officially submitted a bid for the iconic site. From the press release on its official website: [...]
Work Behind the Scenes on New AS Roma Stadium
A recently tweeted photo by AS Roma CEO Mark Pannes has confirmed that the club is currently working hard on realising a new stadium. The photo shows three men looking at a wall full of stadium photos and was accompanied by the following [...]
New Barcelona Stadium Back on the Table
FC Barcelona is again looking into the possibilities of either building a new stadium, or extensively renovating Camp Nou. This reports Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo based on a strategic report the club will internally discuss in the upcoming weeks. The strategic report calls for the return of [...]
Liverpool FC took a step back and forwards at the same time when it decided to proceed with its 9-year-old plans for a new stadium, reports the Telegraph. Even though current American owners Fenway Sports Group had earlier indicated to prefer a redevelopment of Anfield, they now [...]
Valencia Stadium Works Resumed in 2012
Works on the Nuevo Mestalla stadium will resume at the beginning of 2012, according to an announcement of the mayor of Valencia and the club’s president last Tuesday. Construction of the stadium, which began in August 2007, was halted early 2009 with little indication during the last [...]
Twenty Years Ago: The Bastia Stadium Disaster
No matches were played in Ligue 1 last Saturday. Instead the league commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Furiani stadium disaster which took the lives of 18 fans and injured hundreds more. The lead up to the disaster starts on the 22nd of April 1992. SC Bastia, from the football-mad [...]
The Stadiums that Could Have Been
Building a new football stadium is no easy task. It usually starts with an ambitious chairman enthusiastically announcing the plans, but all too often ends in frustration and sometimes resignation. Though in the end most stadium proposals manage to overcome [...]
Five Reasons Why Poland and Ukraine Won’t Be Another Portugal
With the European Championships still three months away, there is already plenty of talk about the legacy of the tournament. That is, experts are warning that Poland and the Ukraine might become the next Portugal. Or South Africa, speaking in World Cup terms. [...]
