Campos de Sport de El Sardinero

  • Racing Santander
  • Games of Racing Santander
  • Games of the Spanish national football team

The Campos de Sport de El Sardinero (short: El Sandinero ) is the city's football stadium in the Spanish city of Santander; the largest city of the northern autonomous community of Cantabria. The team of Racing Santander in the Primera División in the sports facility at home. Visitors have 22,222 seats.

History

The old Estadio El Sandinero

With the founding of Racing Santander on June 14, 1913 was the first El Sandinero that was completed in February of this year, the home of the club. At that time, the venue of a narrow main stand, two covered Hintertorrängen and the open back straight. The name of the stadium goes to the area of ​​El Sandinero back the city of Santander. The old home of racing was only about 30 meters from the extensive sandy beaches of the Bay of Biscay. In the season 1952/53, the club bought the system off from the city for 3.5 million pesetas.

Until 1961 opened up since the opening bit in El Sandinero, then they built a new grandstand. The one built of prefabricated concrete parts, 80 meters long rank had a curved roof structure; the arched on the construction. 1984 Racing sold the stadium back to the city and started together with planning for a new stadium. On May 15, 1988, the last game of Racing Santander took place in the old stadium. Racing parted in a game Segunda División 0-0 FC Granada. The demolition of the El Sandinero started on June 17th of the year. He took twelve days and left 50,000 tons of construction waste. Today at the old site a memorial stone marble in the Parque de Mesones to the former home of Racing Santander.

Campos de Sport de El Sardinero

The new stadium celebrated on August 20, 1988 its inauguration. The former club president Emilio Bolado and the former mayor Manuel Huerta of the city jointly opened the new building. The first game denied the home side against Real Oviedo. The venue is located, around 300 meters away, still close to the beach. The stadium consists of four interconnected ranks; which are fully equipped with seats and covered. The playing field is separated by a moat part of the audience; may be dispensed with fences. The roof of the main grandstand is elevated and overlooks the other three ranks easily. The seating is decorated in the colors of the city in white and blue; the masts of the floodlights protrude outside the four corners of the stadium, in the height. In 1999, the stadium two electronic display panel; which were mounted on the roof edge of the Hintertortrbünen.

In the stadium, the club is housed with its administration and a fan shop. Further facilities include a gym, sauna, medical rooms and massage room. To the east of the stadium behind the opposite stand is a large parking area. 2003, the multi-purpose hall Palacio de Deportes de Santander was opened with 6000-10000 places in the neighborhood. It is used in addition to concerts and other events held mainly for handball and basketball. In 2008, a renovation of the El Sandinero after the club reached the UEFA Cup. The standing room were converted into seats and renovated the lodge. The floodlights had to be retrofitted to meet the requirement of 1,200 lux of UEFA. The field of disability parking has been improved and a players' tunnel fitted for fire -protected material. The facilities for members of the press were expanded and renewed. It continues to be a press room with 50 places for journalists have been created and the mixed zone was enlarged.

Internationals

Six of the seven international match of the Spanish men 's national soccer team in Santander were held in the new stadium of the city.

  • 7,705,995,647,527th March 1991: Spain - Hungary Hungary 2:4 (Friendly Match)
  • 7,711,484,122,509th September 1992: Spain - England 1-0 England (Friendly Match)
  • . 7733754307503 June 1998: Spain - Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 4:1 ( Friendly Match)
  • . 7758219882509 Oct. 2004: Spain - Belgium 2:0 ( WC 2006 Qualifiers)
  • 7,761,736,227,503th September 2005: Spain - Canada Canada 2:1 ( Friendly Match)
  • . 7772462010004 June 2008: Spain - United States United States 1-0 (Friendly Match)
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