Wanda Metropolitano

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Wanda Metropolitano
La Peineta
The stadium in February 2018
The stadium in February 2018
Earlier names

Estadio de la Comunidad de Madrid (until 2017)

Data
place Plaza de Grecia 28022 Madrid , Spain
SpainSpain
Coordinates 40 ° 26 '10 "  N , 3 ° 35' 58"  W Coordinates: 40 ° 26 '10 "  N , 3 ° 35' 58"  W.
owner Autonomous Community of Madrid (1994–2002)
City of Madrid (2002–2017)
Atlético Madrid (since 2017)
start of building 1990
opening 0September 6, 1994
September 16, 2017
First game September 16, 2017
Atlético Madrid 1-0 Málaga FC
Renovations 2011-2017
costs 045 million euros (converted) (1994)
270 million euros (renovation 2011-2017)
architect Antonio Cruz Villalón,
Antonio Ortiz García
(Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos)
capacity 67,703 places (since 2017)
20,500 places (1994–2011)
playing area Natural grass
Societies)
Events

The Wanda Metropolitano , until 2017 Estadio de la Comunidad de Madrid or Estadio Olímpico de Madrid , is a football stadium in the Spanish capital, Madrid . The complex was designed by the architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz (Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos) and built from 1990 to 1994. It initially offered a total of 20,500 spectators. With the renovation work from 2011 to 2017, u. a. the athletics facility was removed and the venue was transformed into a pure football stadium with 67,703 roofed-over seats and grandstands up to the edge of the field. In addition to 7,000  VIP seats, there are also 79 exclusive VIP boxes . A total of 4,000 parking spaces are available, 1,000 of them in the stadium. This makes the Wanda Metropolitano the third largest stadium in Spain.

Due to the similarity of the main stand to a ridge ( Spanish Peineta ), it is also known colloquially as the Estadio de La Peineta . Since September 16, 2017, it has been the new venue of the Atlético Madrid football club .

history

The stadium was opened on September 6, 1994 as the Estadio de la Comunidad de Madrid with an edition of the annual IAAF Athletics Meeting Madrid . In 1995, the sports facility hosted the Spanish athletics championships. From September 21 to 22, 2002, the World Cup in Athletics took place in the Estadio de la Peineta . The last annual IAAF Meeting Madrid took place on July 17, 2004 . As a result, the facility was shut down with the aim of serving as the Olympic stadium in the city's bid for the 2012 Summer Games . For this, the sports facility should be comprehensively renovated and expanded.

Olympic candidacy and expansion

In Madrid's unsuccessful applications for the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games , the Estadio de Madrid was intended as an Olympic stadium as well as for the candidacy for the 2020 Games . Regardless of the outcome of the applications, an expansion to a capacity of around 73,000 visitors and a roofing of the tiers were planned.

Atlético Madrid

In order to use the stadium regularly even after a possible hosting of the Olympic Games, the city of Madrid signed an agreement with the football club Atlético Madrid on July 30, 2007, which renovated the demolition of their current venue, the Estadio Vicente Calderón , and the relocation to it and expanded Estadio Olímpico de Madrid. The stadium change was initially planned for 2012, and should the city of Madrid get the contract for the games, the new venue should have become the property of Atlético Madrid from 2016 for a sum of around 160 million euros. The renovation work began in November 2011 and should be completed after three years. Atlético Madrid announced in September 2012 after Madrid's failed candidacy for the Olympic Games that it was sticking to the plan to move to the Estadio Olímpico de Madrid in 2016. The new stadium was completed in summer 2017.

Before that, at the beginning of November 2016, the load-bearing steel pressure ring, which spans the roof membrane via steel cables , was completed. The pressure ring consists of 32 parts, each weighing 135 tons . The construction, which weighs 4,320 tons and was designed by Schlaich Bergermann Partner , was delivered over 600 kilometers from A Coruña . The next step was to put the steel cables into position on the stands and the playing field. After this, the load-bearing rope structure was lifted into place over the pressure ring. Since the old main grandstand was not intended to support a roof, new supports had to be created for the pressure ring in this area as well. Here it was possible to limit yourself to two relatively thin supports. Otherwise the old main stand will not be touched by the new roof.

The roof, which is 57 meters high, as well as the facade can be illuminated in different colors. Depending on the game situation in football or events such as concerts, the color can be changed, color gradients or patterns can be displayed. According to initial plans from 2011, only the outer edge of the roof should be illuminated. In September 2016 Atlético Madrid entered into a partnership with the Dutch electronics company Philips . The system is similar to the system installed in the Allianz Arena , which also comes from Philips. How far the possibility of changing the color can be reconciled with the rules of the associations ( LFP , UEFA , FIFA ) was open until then.

Atlético Madrid announced on December 9, 2016 that the venue would in future be called Wanda Metropolitano . The naming rights were secured by the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group , whose founder Jian Laining holds 20 percent of the association's shares. The addition Metropolitano is reminiscent of the Estadio Metropolitano , where Atlético played its home games from 1923 to 1966.

In mid-March 2017, the club reached an agreement with the city of Madrid on the purchase of the stadium property. Atlético paid around 30 million euros for the site and also committed to invest another 30 million euros in expanding the infrastructure around the Wanda Metropolitano . This is how u. a. 4,000 public parking spaces.

Since there were further delays in construction, the stadium was not finished as planned at the start of the 2017/18 season . The club had to play the first three games of the season away. On September 16, 2017, Atlético celebrated their home premiere in the league game against FC Málaga and won 1-0, with Antoine Griezmann scoring the first goal in the 61st minute in front of 63,114 spectators in the new stadium.

A few days after the opening, on September 20, UEFA awarded the final of the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League on June 1, 2019 in the Madrid stadium.

Since Rayo Majadahonda , who was promoted to the Segunda División in 2018 , does not have a suitable stadium for the second division, the club also played its home games at the Wanda Metropolitano. After a season, the club rose again and moved back to the Estadio Cerro del Espino .

ETA stop

On June 25, 2005, the Basque terrorist organization ETA bombed the stadium parking lot. Only minor property damage was caused.

Location and public transport

The stadium is located in the east of Madrid, in the San Blas district , and can be reached via line 7 of the Madrid metro ( Estadio Metropolitano station ) and bus lines 28, 48, 109, 286 and 288. The original Atletico Stadium, also named Metropolitano , was on the same Metro Line 7, Guzman el Bueno station, until the 1960s.

gallery

  • Exterior view of the main stand on the west side of the stadium from March 2012

  • The main stand in February 2014

  • Start of the assembly of the load-bearing pressure ring construction in August 2016

  • The stadium construction in April 2017

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The stadium interior with a stretched roof membrane in August 2017

Web links

Commons : Wanda Metropolitano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stadiumdb.com: stadium capacity (English)
  2. ↑ Wanda Stadium Madrid 2019 - Madrid Stadium under a scope! Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Wanda Metropolitano: The new stadium of Atlético Madrid . In: Europapokal.de . October 3, 2017 ( europapokal.de [accessed November 3, 2017]).
  4. ↑ clubatleticodemadrid.com: Inauguration and win at the Wanda Metropolitano (English)
  5. ↑ munimadrid.es: Los terrenos del Vicente Calderón se transformarán en un parque de uso público Article of July 30, 2007 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ elpais.com: El Ayuntamiento quiere que el Atlético adelante 160 millones para ir a La Peineta Article of October 15, 2007 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ kicker.de: Despite Madrid's Olympic Games: Atletico gets new stadium article from September 10, 2013
  8. ↑ Atlético opens the "Estadio Olímpico de Madrid" lattenkreuz.de on September 15, 2017
  9. ↑ sbp.de: Project: Dach Stadion Wanda Metropolitano Article from September 2017
  10. ↑ stadiumdb.com: Madrid: Compression ring of the roof installed Article from November 8, 2016 (English)
  11. ↑ stadiumdb.com: Renderings: Wanda Metropolitano (English)
  12. ↑ stadiumdb.com: Madrid: Atletico's roof will come alive during events Article from October 11, 2016 (English)
  13. ↑ stadiumdb.com: Madrid: Atletico reveal naming right partner Madrid: Atletico reveal naming right partner Article of December 9, 2016 (English)
  14. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Name of the new Atlético home is fixed Article dated December 9, 2016
  15. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Atlético buys property from Wanda Metropolitano Article from March 15, 2017
  16. ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: Thanks to Griezmann, Atletico's stadium premiere succeeds: Atletico Madrid - FC Malaga 1: 0 (0: 0). Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  17. ↑ kicker.de: Champions League final 2019 in Madrid Article from September 20, 2017
  18. ↑ Second division in the final stadium of the Champions League. In: stadionwelt.de. July 13, 2018, accessed July 14, 2018 .
  19. ↑ elpais.com: ETA hace estallar un coche bomba junto al estadio de Madrid 2012 sin causar víctimas article from June 25, 2005 (Spanish)