From Football to LaLiga: The Transformation

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Text: Fran Garrido

Adapting to the demands of current football implies more than sports performance: It also means renewing its foundations. Clubs such as Valencia CF, Racing Club Ferrol and CD Mirandès have undertaken redevelopments to their stages and sports cities, each from different realities, but sharing the same ambition: to offer their fans the best place of celebration imaginable.

New Mestalla: A new age for Valencia CF

All the love of Valencia CF carefully follows the construction of the New Mestallawhose works have been underway since January 10 and aim to be completed in the summer of 2027.

Currently tasks are carried out according to the Expected deadlines. In the first few months, inner conditioning and architecture tasks have already begun, gaining significant advances and moving part of the scheduled calendar.

The design has been made by Fenwick Iribarren Architectsinternational prestige study that participated in three stages of the Qatar 2022 World Cup. The cover will be given by Schlaich Berbermann & Partner, specialists who have worked in precincts such as the metropolitan civitas, the Maracanà stadium or the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. In addition, FCC Construction, with experience at RCDE Stadium, the reform of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium and the sports cities of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, collaborates.

The new Mestalla is the most ambitious project in the more than 100 years of club history. It will be capable of 70,044 spectators and will be adapted to the highest standards in visibility, security, comfort and accessibility, with more localities for people with reduced mobility or functional diversity. A stadium at the height of the best in Europe.

Beyond football, the new Mestalla aspires to become an iconic space ofleisure and entertainment In Valencia 365 days a year, with restaurants overlooking the pitch, megastore, museum, auditorium and a hospitality area with more than 6,500 locations (9.4% of the total capacity, compared to the 600 current ones).

Javier Solís, CEO of Valencia CF, explains that “The new Mestalla will become a Strategic pillar For the future of the club, combining modernity and innovation. It will allow you to generate more revenue through events, experiences and commercial exploitation throughout the day of the year and I am sure it will consolidate the club as a global benchmark. It will not only offer an unmatched experience to the fans, it will become an epicenter of the entertainment for families ”.

The club has defined Ten vertical business that they will structure the life of the stadium and has already signed an agreement with Legends as a strategic partner to optimize the hospitality area. A key alliance to ensure the premium profitability and experience of the New Stadium.

Racing Club Ferrol: a sports city to grow from the base

Racing Club Ferrol has made a decisive step with the acquisition of the land where its future will be built sports city. It is a plot at the Radio de Mandía station, owned by Concello de Ferrol, which will become the new home of the club.

The Racing Club Ferrol Foundation has formalized the purchase of this area of 120,099 m². The conditioning project, which will be developed in phases, plans to provide the first team with a natural grass field and support spaces. The initiative not only covers sports needs, but also seeks to consolidate a strategic infrastructure In the long term.

The club’s president, Manuel Ansede, emphasized the importance of the moment: “With the purchase of these lands at Concello de Ferrol, we have taken a first step in having our own sports city. For the Racing Club Ferrol this is a historic milestone, since, for the first time in our centenary career, we can have our own real estate.
The construction of the Sports City is a key project in our strategic plan as it will allow us to have work facilities according to the needs of professional football and enhance our growth and projection as a club. In addition, it will allow us to enhance the development of our players and strengthen the ties with our community.
This project reflects our commitment to the future, through an infrastructure that helps us achieve new goals, laying the foundations of a sustainable future For our clubs “.

Mirandès CD: a grandstand to dream even higher

The Mirandès CD has starred in an unforgettable season, in which many dreams have been fulfilled, maintaining a club and hobby. The construction of the new main grandstand of the Anduva Municipal Stadium could almost be seen as an event to commemorate a campaign as magical as that of 2024/2025.

The agreement was signed by the President of the Mirandès CD, Alfredo de Miguel Crespo, and by the municipal officials of Miranda de Ebro. It is an improvement in the quality of the stadium, which will allow the team to continue to compete in the best conditions within professional football.

The works, scheduled for that same year, aim to adapt the enclosure to the demands of LaLiga in the field of security, television and amateur experience. The president himself emphasized that the club will assume the cost of internal work and will receive a return from the City Council within ten years.

“We must all congratulate ourselves for closing this agreement, which will make it possible to have a field that meets all the requirements of LaLiga and from which we can be proud of all the looks.”explained by Miguel Crespo.

The President also emphasized the symbolic and ambitious character of the work: “Thanks to the construction of this new main grandstand, the Mirandès CD will continue to grow, proudly bearing the name of Miranda de Ebro throughout the national geography al futbol professional”.

Quaranta do Clubs. Two competitions. And the same horizon: to have modern infrastructures, accessible and adapted to the challenges of the present and the future. Because the passion for football deserves stages at the height of those who make it possible every day: the fans.