Adolfo Suárez Stadium
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| Full name | Estadio Municipal Adolfo Suárez |
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| Location | Ávila, Spain |
| Coordinates | 40°38′47″N 4°42′6″W / 40.64639°N 4.70167°W |
| Owner | Ayuntamiento de Ávila |
| Capacity | 6,000 |
| Opened | 12 October 1976 |
| Tenants | |
| Real Ávila CF (1976–present) | |
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]
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 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 (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, the ruling authority for the latter river's basin.[4][5]
References
- ^ "El estadio". Real Ávila.
- ^ a b c "Siempre con el Real Ávila". Diario de Ávila. 24 March 2014.
- ^ "El Real Ávila estalla ante el estado de abandono del Estadio Municipal Adolfo Suárez". Tribuna de Ávila. 19 November 2019.
- ^ "El proyecto de Ciudad Deportiva del Adolfo Suárez tiene que modificarse". Cadena COPE. 1 April 2019.
- ^ Hernández, María Ángeles (1 April 2019). "La CHD confirma que no se puede construir junto al Estadio Adolfo Suárez". SER.