Metropolitano Stadium

Metropolitano Stadium ( spanish : Estadio Metropolitano ), besides referred to as Wanda Metropolitano for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Madrid, Spain. It has been the family stadium of Atlético Madrid since the 2017–18 season. It is located in the Rosas neighborhood, in the San Blas-Canillejas zone. The stadium was built as function of Madrid ‘s unsuccessful bid to host the 1997 World Athletics Championships, and was opened on 6 September 1994 by the Community of Madrid. It was closed in 2004 due to the city ‘s wish for the 2016 Olympics and in 2013 it was passed into the possession of Atlético Madrid. The stadium was renovated and the modern adeptness was reopened to the public on 16 September 2017, when Atlético Madrid faced Málaga in La Liga. The stadium had a capacity of 20,000 spectators upon its closure and re-opened with a seating capacity of 68,456 after renovation. The stadium hosted the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final on 1 June 2019. [ 5 ]

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name [edit ]

The stadium was once known as Estadio de la Comunidad de Madrid ( Madrid Community Stadium ), Estadio Olímpico de Madrid ( Madrid Olympic Stadium ), and more normally by its dub Estadio de La Peineta ( The Comb Stadium ). Naming rights were acquired by the Wanda Group, a chinese real estate ship’s company. [ 6 ] Due to UEFA sponsorship regulations the stadium is known as Estadio Metropolitano in UEFA market materials. [ 7 ]

history [edit ]

During the early 1990s the Sports Council of the Community of Madrid promoted the city ‘s invite to host the World Athletics Championships in 1997. The preparations began for a stadium in eastern Madrid, following to the M-40 expressway and close to the Madrid–Barajas Airport. construction of the raw stadium began in 1990 and was based on a blueprint proposed by Cruz y Ortiz. It was completed in November 1993 at a monetary value of €45 million, [ 8 ] and the inauguration took plaza in September 1994 in front of then IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, then Community of Madrid president Joaquín Leguina, and then mayor of Madrid José María Álvarez del Manzano. [ 9 ] The single seating tier stadium with a capacitance of 20,000 seats became known as La Peineta ( the comb ) because of its similarity with a traditional hair comb. The 1997 World Championships in Athletics were finally awarded to Athens in 1995, and La Peineta was used for minor sports and cultural events during the first decade of its universe. [ 10 ]

New stadium [edit ]

In 2004, the stadium was closed for a future project upon the Madrid bid for the 2012 Olympics. The adopt year, the bid failed. In December 2008, Atlético ‘s president Enrique Cerezo and mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón signed an agreement indicating that Atlético Madrid would finally move to the stadium in the adopt years and for the renovations to begin. [ 11 ] The clubhouse was initially supposed to move to the new stadium in 2013, but this was pushed back numerous times ascribable to Olympic bids and the economic crisis. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Following another get the better of of Madrid ‘s Olympic bid in 2009, this time for the 2016 Olympics, many proposals were made for the future use of the stadium. In November 2011, the foremost destruction works were carried out at the stadium. [ 14 ] In form 2012, more works were carried out, this prison term with the removal of the lower seat tier and the removal of the athletics track. [ 15 ] Madrid made a bid again for the 2020 Olympics, which failed american samoa well in September 2013. A few days after the hundred-and-twenty-fifth IOC Session, on 11 September 2013, Atlético Madrid announced their plans to build a stadium on the location of La Peineta, and possession was officially transferred to the club. [ 16 ]
Atlético ‘s foremost european equal at the stadium, 27 September 2017 The fresh stadium was scheduled to replace Vicente Calderón Stadium as Atletico ‘s home for the 2017–18 season. [ 4 ] [ 17 ] On 9 December 2016, the club announced that the animate stadium ‘s official name would be Wanda Metropolitano [ 18 ] – Wanda for sponsorship reasons and Metropolitano after the 1923–1966 arena which hosted Atlético ‘s matches before Vicente Calderón. [ 19 ] In March 2017, the club formally bought the stadium from the City Council of Madrid for €30.4 million. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] As of 15 April 2017, around 48,500 season tickets had been reserved by the club fans. [ 22 ] On 17 September 2017, the Wanda Metropolitano ‘s inauguration consequence was a 2017–18 La Liga match between Atlético Madrid and Málaga CF. King Felipe VI of Spain attended the catch. Atlético ‘s Antoine Griezmann would go on to score the first goal at the new stadium, in which the match ended in a 1–0 winnings for Atlético. [ 23 ] On 27 September 2017, the Metropolitano hosted its inaugural european game as Chelsea tick Atlético Madrid 2–1 and became the first English golf club to defeat them at dwelling in any european club rival, ampere well as the first visit team to win at the new stadium. [ 24 ] It accommodates 68,000 spectators, with all spectator seats covered by a new ceiling [ 4 ] including 7,000 VIP, 79 VIP suites known as Neptuno Premium. [ 25 ] 4,000 car parking spaces are available : 1,000 inside the stadium and 3,000 outside. [ 26 ] The stadium was besides the foremost 100 % LED stadium in the global. [ 27 ] [ 28 ]

noteworthy events [edit ]

La Peineta hosted the second leg of the 1996 Supercopa de España on 28 August, with Atlético beating FC Barcelona 3–1 on the night but losing 6–5 on aggregate. [ 15 ] [ 29 ] During the 1997–98 Segunda División season, Madrid-based baseball club Rayo Vallecano played some home matches at La Peineta, due to renovation works on its stadium, the Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas. [ 30 ] On 21–22 September 2002, La Peineta hosted the 9th IAAF World Cup, an international racetrack and field sporting consequence sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations. [ 31 ] On 20 September 2017, concisely after the inauguration of the stadium, it was selected by UEFA to host the final match of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League . Exterior view of the stadium at the inauguration day The early selected campaigner was the Baku National Stadium in Azerbaijan, which hosted the 2019 UEFA Europa League Final. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] This was the fifth european Cup/ UEFA Champions League concluding hold in Madrid, after the 1957, 1969, 1980, and 2010 finals, all held at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium of Atlético ‘s crosstown equal Real Madrid. [ 34 ] On 27 March 2018, the stadium hosted the Spain national football team for the first time for a friendly against Argentina, which ended in a 6–1 gain for Spain. [ 35 ]

transport and entree [edit ]

inauguration of the new access to Estadio Metropolitano Metro post 2017 The Madrid City Council, the spanish Ministry of Public Works and Transport and Atletico Madrid signed an agreement to improve access to the stadium. The first phase of the work was planned to be completed before the stadium opened, and included the new entrance from the M-40 towards Avenida Luis Aragonés, the braiding connection between the Eisenhower Knot ( M-14 and M-21 ) and the stadium service road, the improvement of the entrance by Arcentales Avenue, the construction of a second gear anteroom, and ultimately access to the Estadio Metropolitano Metro station. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] These infrastructures will be paid by the club for a fee close to 30 million euro. [ 40 ] The second phase was planned to take put after the inauguration. According to the announcement by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, it consists of the open of the O’Donnell Cercanías Madrid station, which will convert the existing stop into a new station for the Rejas neighborhood. The station will be located at the intersection of the M-21 double carriageway and M-40 highway, close to Ciudad Pegaso and the Plenilunio Shopping Center and near the Wanda Metropolitano. The City Council is in talks with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Community of Madrid about far improving access to the new stadium and adapting to the substantial increase of traffic to the region once it is operational. The measures proposed by the municipality of Madrid include a request to extend channel 2 of Metro to the future O’Donnell Cercanías Madrid station, a well as the connection of said line to credit line 7 ‘s Estadio Metropolitano Metro post, which has the largest platform in the network. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] There are three more Metro stations within a two to 20 moment walk of the stadium : Las Rosas ( line 2 ), Canillejas ( line 5 ), and Las Musas ( line 7 ). [ 42 ] The buses of EMT Madrid with a barricade close to the stadium are lines 28, 38, 48, 140, 153, E2, N5 and N6 ( the last two lines are nocturnal buses ). The long-distance buses are lines 286, 288 and 289. The EMT operates a extra service on match days ; one line runs from the Canillejas exchanger to the stadium ( SE721 line ). Canillejas has connections to Metro trace 5 and EMT bus lines 77, 101, 140, 151 and 200. [ 42 ]