Estadio Municipal de Pasarón
- FC Pontevedra
The Estadio Municipal de Pasarón is a football stadium in the city of Pontevedra. It serves the FC Pontevedra as homestead.
History
On the grounds of today's Estadio de Pasarón been around since the 1920s played teams from Pontevedra. When the FC Pontevedra was founded in 1941, they took over the venue of its predecessor club Eiriña Club de Fútbol. In 1960, the congregation bought the reasons which until then had been in the possession of the famous Galician writer Valentín Paz Andrade - family, and began to build the stadium. The architects of the venue were Emilio Quiroga Losada and Alfonso Barreiro Buján and the opening took place in 1965. A tragic event took place at the Estadio Pasarón on January 7, 1973, when the player of Sevilla Pedro Berruezo FC during a league game between his team and the FC Pontevedra cardiac arrest died. In 2005 began a led by architect Galo Zayas Carvajal comprehensive renovation of the stadium. In the following five years, all four stands of the venue were successively renewed completely, without having to set the game mode. The stadium has since been unified and covered all the spectator stands. However, the capacity was reduced from 16,500 to 12,500 seats. The project was also due to the cost explosion frequently in the headlines, but the originally planned budget of 7.2 million euro rose to more than double. The renovated stadium was officially opened on 15 May 2010 with a match against Real Oviedo.