El Molinón

Estadio Municipal El Molinón
	El Molinón
	The El Molinón in March 2018
Data
place	Parque de Isabel la Católica 33390 Gijón , Spain;
Coordinates	43 ° 32 '10.5 " N , 5 ° 38' 14.7" W Coordinates: 43 ° 32 '10.5 " N , 5 ° 38' 14.7" W.
owner	City of Gijón
opening	1908
Renovations	1980-1981, 1999, 2009-2011
surface	Natural grass
capacity	29,538 seats
playing area	105 × 68 m
Societies)
	Sporting Gijón;
Events
	Sporting Gijón games; Copa del Rey final, 1920 ; Football World Cup 1982;

North side of the stadium

The Estadio Municipal El Molinón , officially El Molinón-Enrique Castro Quini , is a football stadium in the Spanish city of Gijón . It is the home of the Sporting Gijón football club , which currently plays in the Segunda División . It has space for 29,538 spectators. At the end of February 2018, the venue was given the name affix of the recently deceased football player Quini .

history

The Estadio Municipal El Molinón was inaugurated in 1908 and is considered the oldest football stadium in Spain. It was first used for a competitive game in 1917 at a cup match between Sporting Gijón and Arenas Club de Getxo , which the guest won 1-0. Since 1915, the local club Sporting Gijón has used the stadium as a venue for its home games. The club's greatest success was a second place in the Primera División 1978/79 . The club's only titles were five championships in the Segunda División.

The Estadio Municipal El Molinón was one of the venues for the Football World Cup 1982 , which hosted Spain. At that time the stadium offered space for 45,000 spectators. The current capacity is 29,538 after a small renovation was carried out in the 2009/10 season and some seats were added to the stadium, which previously had a capacity of 25,000. There were two memorable matches at the World Cup in Gijón. On the one hand, the then two-time world champion Germany was defeated 2-1 in the preliminary round by Algeria.

Much more famous, however, is the third game at this World Cup in El Molinón, where Germany and Austria faced each other for the final group game. After Algeria had previously defeated Chile, a narrow victory for the Germans was enough for both of them to advance. What followed now went down in the history of the World Cup as the non-aggression pact of Gijón , because after an early goal for Germany by Horst Hrubesch , both teams stopped the game completely and only pushed the ball to each other. Since this game and the obvious manipulation, the final group games at soccer world championships have always taken place at the same time.

Games of the 1982 World Cup in Gijón

76719578000 ♠June 16, 1982, Group 2: Federal Republic of Germany - Algeria 1: 2 (0: 0)Germany BR Algeria
76719950100 ♠June 20, 1982, Group 2: Federal Republic of Germany - Chile 4: 1 (1: 0)Germany BR Chile
76720415225 ♠June 25, 1982, Group 2: Federal Republic of Germany - Austria 1: 0 (1: 0)Germany BR Austria

Spanish national soccer team matches in Gijón

To date, La Furia Roja has played eleven international matches at El Molinón . In the games they remained undefeated with eight wins and three draws. (As of June 12, 2020)