Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero

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Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero
Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero
The Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero in Elche
Data
place SpainSpain Elche , Spain
Coordinates 38 ° 16 ′ 1 ″  N , 0 ° 39 ′ 48 ″  W Coordinates: 38 ° 16 ′ 1 ″  N , 0 ° 39 ′ 48 ″  W.
classification 4th
owner FC Elche
opening September 8, 1976
First game FC Elche - Mexico 3: 3
surface Natural grass
architect Juan Boix Matarredona
capacity 36,017 seats
playing area 108 m × 70 m
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Events

The Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero (formerly known as Nuevo Estadio or Nuevo Altabix ) is a football stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Elche . It replaced the Campo de Altabix ; the venue of FC Elche from 1926 to 1976. The facility offers space for 36,017 spectators (20,653 seats on the lower grandstand ring and 15,364 seats on the upper part of the grandstand); is the property as well as the sporting home of the football club FC Elche . Except for the seats under the overhang of the upper stand, the arena is completely uncovered. There are 2,184 parking spaces around the building.

history

The stadium during a game

The Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero in Elche , a city in the Valencian Community , was built in 1976. On September 8th, the stadium was inaugurated with a friendly game between the future user of the arena, FC Elche , and the Mexican national football team . The game (which ended 3: 3) took place in front of 25,000 spectators because the construction of the spectator stands was not yet completed. Since that day, the FC Elche club has been using the stadium as a venue for home games. The greatest success in the club's history of this club was a final participation in the Copa del Rey , in the season 1968/69. The best placement in the Primera División was a fifth place in 1963/64. FC Elche is currently playing in the second Spanish division, the Segunda División .

Six years after its inauguration, the Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero was one of the venues for the 1982 World Cup , which Spain was able to secure. Despite its size - after all, there was space for 53,000 spectators in this stadium in 1982 - it was only used for preliminary round matches. However, one of these preliminary round matches in Elche went down in the history of the World Cup when Hungary beat El Salvador 10-1 . Two other games were held here in the same group. First Belgium won 1-0 against outsider El Salvador in front of a mini-crowd of 15,000 spectators, and then Belgium and Hungary played 1-1 in the final group game in front of 37,000 spectators. Another major event at this stadium, named after Manuel Martinez Valero, a president of Elche FC, was the 2002/03 Copa del Rey final, where RCD Mallorca won the national cup 3-0 against Recreativo Huelva .

Spanish national soccer team matches

The Spanish men's national football team has played six international matches at the Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero to date.

Games of the 1982 World Cup in Elche

Panorama picture

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View inside the stadium

Web links

Commons : Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ muchoelche.com: Stadium on a fan website (Spanish)
  2. ↑ elchecf.es: stadium capacity ( memento of the original dated February 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elchecf.es
  3. ↑ Stadium opening (Spanish), muchoelche.com
  4. ↑ As of September 19, 2018