Adolfo_Suárez_Stadium

Adolfo Suárez Stadium

Adolfo Suárez Stadium

Sporting venue in Spain


The Adolfo Suárez Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Adolfo Suárez) is a football stadium located in the city of Ávila, Spain. Owned by the Ayuntamiento de Ávila, Real Ávila CF plays its home fixtures at the stadium. It has a capacity of 6,000.[1]

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History

Named after Adolfo Suárez, prime minister of Spain between 1976 and 1981, it was inaugurated on 12 October 1976, with a friendly fixture between Atlético Madrid and UD Salamanca.[2] Despite a plaque stating otherwise, the then prime minister could not attend to the inauguration, and the former was actually unveiled by civil governor Luis Cuesta Gimeno.[2] Suárez attended the first official fixture, Real Ávila CF vs CD Manzanares, played on 31 October.[2]

In 2019, the dismal state of the facilities (featuring an abandoned velodrome and deteriorated pitch and stands) led to the proposal of renovation requests by Real Ávila.[3] As the stadium is built on a "zone of preferential flow" (sic) of the Chico River [es] (a tributary of the Adaja), the prospect of building works around the stadium to erect a new training complex (ciudad deportiva) have been disallowed by the Duero Hydrographic Confederation [es], the ruling authority for the latter river's basin.[4][5]


References

  1. "El estadio". Real Ávila.
  2. "Siempre con el Real Ávila". Diario de Ávila. 24 March 2014.

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