Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta
- CE Sabadell
- Games of CE Sabadell
- Summer Olympic Games 1992 ( Football)
The Nova Creu Alta, Estadi de la Nova Creu also Alta, is a football stadium in the city of Sabadell, Catalonia. It can accommodate 11,981 spectators and serves the club CE Sabadell host the home matches. In addition, here football matches were held at the Summer Olympic Games in 1992.
History
The Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta, Sabadell, an industrial town twenty kilometers north-west of Barcelona, which has a population of just over 200,000 people, was built in the years 1966 and 1967 and opened on 20 August 1967. For the first game in the new stadium, the future users club CE Sabadell FC Barcelona and the Spanish top club met for a friendly match, which was won by the hosts 1-0. First goal scorer in the newly built stadium was Josep Maria Vall CE Sabadell. Since that day the club CE Sabadell uses the Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta as the venue for home games in football. The club played in its history fourteen seasons in La Liga, the top division in Spanish football, the best league finish was a fifth place in the 1950s. At that time the club took advantage of still another stadium. The last time in the Premier League was the club 1987/88. Since then, they played in the Segunda División maximum. Currently CE Sabadell plays just in this league after last season (2010 /11) the rise of the Segunda División B was successful.
The Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta, which is also known under the nickname Nova Creu Alta, now accommodates 20,000 spectators, making it one of the larger stages in the Spanish second division. The only major attraction experienced the stadium as some football games of the 1992 Summer Olympics, whose host, the Catalan city of Barcelona had secured, held in Sabadell. In the Olympic football tournament exclusively preliminary games in Nova Creu Alta took place, the knockout matches up at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia and in La Romareda to Zaragoza. However, were found to games in Sabadell very few viewers, the record crowd at the Olympic football tournament in games in Sabadell was achieved with 6,000 spectators at the game between Mexico and Ghana (1-1). Even outside of Sabadell were the stages in the tournament with the exception of the final match at Camp Nou, the persecuted 95,000 spectators, only moderately filled.