Estadio Manuel MartÃnez Valero
- FC Elche
- Football World Cup 1982
- Final of the Copa del Rey 2003
- Games of the Spanish national football team
The Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero (formerly known as Nuevo Estadio Nuevo or Antonio Machado ) is a football stadium in the Spanish city of Elche. It replaced the Campo de Antonio Machado; . the stadium of FC Elche 1926-1976 The facility can accommodate 36 017 spectators ( 20 653 seats in the lower grandstand ring and 15,364 seats in the upper grandstand part); is the property as well as the sporting home of the football club FC Elche. The Arena is entirely unüberdacht up to the courts under the overhang of the upper grandstand. Around the building are 2,184 parking spaces.
History
The Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero in Elche, a city in the Autonomous Region of Valencia, was built in 1976. On September 8, the stadium was inaugurated with a friendly match between the future users of the Arena, FC Elche, and the Mexican national soccer team. The game (which ran out 3:3 ) was held in front of 25,000 spectators, since the construction of the spectator stands was not yet completed. Since that day, the FC Elche uses the stadium as the venue for home games. The biggest success in club history this association was a Finalist in the Copa del Rey, in the season 1968/69. The best placement in the Primera División was a fifth place 1963/64. Currently, the Elche CF plays in the first Spanish league, La Liga.
The Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero was six years after its inauguration, one of the venues for the FIFA World Cup 1982, the orientation was able to secure Spain. Despite its size - after all, found 1982 53.000 spectators in this stadium court - it was only used for preliminary round games. However, one of group matches in Elche went down in the history of the World Cup, when Hungary with a 10:1 win against El Salvador. In the same group found two more games held here. First of Belgium won in front of a crowd of 15,000 spectators Mini 1-0 against the Mavericks El Salvador, and then Belgium and Hungary played in the final group game after all 37,000 spectators 1:1. Another major event in this stadium, which is to Manuel Martinez Valero, a president of FC Elche, named, was the final of the Copa del Rey 2002/ 03, where RCD Mallorca 3-0 won the national cup title against Recreativo Huelva.
Games of the Spanish national football team
The Spanish national football team of the men carried her out to date five matches at the Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero.