Metropolitano Stadium (
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: ''Estadio Metropolitano''), also referred to as Cívitas Metropolitano for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in
Madrid
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, Spain. It has been the home stadium of
Atlético Madrid since the
2017–18 season. It is located in the
Rosas neighbourhood, in the
San Blas-Canillejas
San Blas-Canillejas is a district to the east of Madrid's city centre. The population of the district is estimated in 149,909.
Geography Subdivision
The district is administratively divided into 8 wards (''Barrios''):
*Amposta
*Arcos
* Canilleja ...
district.
The stadium was built as part of Madrid's unsuccessful bid to host the
1997 World Athletics Championships, and was opened on 6 September 1994 by the
Community of Madrid
The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest munic ...
. It was closed in 2004 due to the city's unsuccessful
bid for the 2016 Olympics and in 2013 it passed into the possession of Atlético Madrid. The stadium was renovated and the new facility was reopened to the public on 16 September 2017, when
Atlético Madrid faced
Málaga in
La Liga
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. 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
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on 1 June 2019.
Name
The stadium was formerly known as ''Estadio de la Comunidad de Madrid'' (Madrid Community Stadium), ''Estadio Olímpico de Madrid'' (Madrid Olympic Stadium), and more commonly by its nickname ''Estadio de La Peineta'' (The Comb Stadium).
Naming rights
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were acquired by the
Wanda Group
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With inve ...
, a Chinese real estate company. Due to
UEFA
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sponsorship regulations the stadium is known as ''Estadio Metropolitano'' in UEFA marketing materials.
History
During the early 1990s the Sports Council of the Community of Madrid promoted the city's bid to host the
World Athletics Championships
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in 1997. The preparations began for a stadium in eastern Madrid, next to the
M-40 motorway and close to the
Madrid–Barajas Airport.
Construction of the new stadium began in 1990 and was based on a design proposed by
Cruz y Ortiz
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Biography
Architect Antonio Cruz Villalón was born in Seville, Spain, in 1948 ...
. It was completed in November 1993 at a cost of €45 million, and the inauguration took place in September 1994 in front of then IOC president
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch (Catalan: ''Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló'', ; 17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010) was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh P ...
, then Community of Madrid president
Joaquín Leguina, and then mayor of Madrid
José María Álvarez del Manzano. The single seating tier stadium with a capacity 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
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were eventually awarded to
Athens
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in 1995, and La Peineta was used for minor sports and cultural events during the first decade of its existence.
New stadium
In 2004, the stadium was closed for a future project upon the
Madrid bid for the 2012 Olympics. The following year, the bid failed. In December 2008, Atlético's president
Enrique Cerezo
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Cinematographic career
Cerezo began in cinema in 1967 as a camera assistant in the movie ...
and mayor of Madrid
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez (born 11 December 1958) is a Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice. He was mayor of Madrid between 2003 and 2011. A stalwart of the conservative People's Party (PP), he has previously been a leadin ...
signed an agreement indicating that Atlético Madrid would eventually move to the stadium in the following years and for the renovations to begin. The club was initially supposed to move to the new stadium in 2013, but this was pushed back numerous times due to Olympic bids and the economic crisis.
Following another defeat of Madrid's Olympic bid in 2009, this time for the
2016 Olympics
)
, nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams)
, athletes = 11,238
, events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines)
, opening = 5 August 2016
, closing = 21 August 2016
, opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...
, many proposals were made for the future use of the stadium. In November 2011, the first demolition works were carried out at the stadium. In Spring 2012, more works were carried out, this time with the removal of the lower seating tier and the removal of the athletics track.
Madrid made a bid again for the
2020 Olympics, which failed as well in September 2013. A few days after the
125th IOC Session
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, on 11 September 2013, Atlético Madrid announced their plans to build a stadium on the location of La Peineta, and ownership was officially transferred to the club.
![Atletico Madrid 1 Chelsea 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Atletico_Madrid_1_Chelsea_2.jpg)
The new stadium was scheduled to replace
Vicente Calderón Stadium
The Vicente Calderón Stadium ( es, Estadio Vicente Calderón ) was the home stadium of Atlético Madrid from its completion in 1966 to 2017, with a seating capacity of 54,907 and located on the banks of the Manzanares, in the Arganzuela distr ...
as Atletico's home for the
2017–18 season.
On 9 December 2016, the club announced that the renovated stadium's official name would be Wanda Metropolitano –
Wanda
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for sponsorship reasons and ''Metropolitano'' after
the 1923–1966 arena which hosted Atlético's matches before Vicente Calderón. In March 2017, the club officially bought the stadium from the
City Council of Madrid
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The City Council is composed by three bodies; the Mayor who leads the City Council ...
for €30.4 million. As of 15 April 2017, around 48,500 season tickets had been reserved by the club fans.
On 17 September 2017, the Estadio Metropolitano's inaugural event was a
2017–18 La Liga
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Real Madrid ...
match between Atlético Madrid and
Málaga CF. King
Felipe VI of Spain
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attended the match. Atlético's
Antoine Griezmann
Antoine Griezmann (; born 21 March 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the France national team. A versatile player, Griezmann is known for his attacking, passing, and supporti ...
would go on to score the first goal at the new stadium, in which the match ended in a 1–0 win for Atlético. On 27 September 2017, the Metropolitano hosted its first European game as
Chelsea
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beat Atlético Madrid 2–1 and became the first English club to defeat them at home in any European club competition, as well as the first visiting team to win at the new stadium.
It accommodates 68,000 spectators, with all spectator seats covered by a new roof
including 7,000 VIP, 79 VIP suites known as ''Neptuno Premium''. 4,000 car parking spaces are available: 1,000 inside the stadium and 3,000 outside.
The stadium was also the first 100% LED stadium in the world.
Notable events
La Peineta hosted the second leg of the
1996 Supercopa de España on 28 August, with Atlético beating
FC Barcelona
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Found ...
3–1 on the night but losing 6–5 on aggregate.
During the
1997–98 Segunda División
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season, Madrid-based club
Rayo Vallecano
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played some home matches at La Peineta, due to renovation works on its stadium, the
Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas.
On 21–22 September 2002, La Peineta hosted the
9th IAAF World Cup, an international
track and field
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sporting event sponsored by the
International Association of Athletics Federations
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.
On 20 September 2017, shortly after the inauguration of the stadium, it was selected by
UEFA
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to host the
final match of the
2018–19 UEFA Champions League.
![Wanda Metropolitano - 2017-09](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Wanda_Metropolitano_-_2017-09.jpg)
The other selected nominee was the
Baku National Stadium
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in Azerbaijan, which hosted the
2019 UEFA Europa League Final
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.
This was the fifth European Cup/
UEFA Champions League
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final held in
Madrid
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, after the
1957
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,
1969
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* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
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,
1980, and
2010 finals, all held at the
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
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of Atlético's cross-town rival
Real Madrid.
On 27 March 2018, the stadium hosted the
Spain national football team
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for the first time for a friendly against
Argentina
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, which ended in a 6–1 win for Spain.
On 21 April 2018, it hosted the
2018 Copa del Rey Final
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between
Sevilla
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and
Barcelona
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. Barcelona won the game with a final score of
5–0. During the game
Andrés Iniesta
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was substituted with a standing ovation by the fans since it was his last final with Barcelona.
On 17 March 2019, Metropolitano hosted the
Spanish women's league match between
Atlético Madrid and
Barcelona
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, with 60,739 spectators attending the match, thus beating the worldwide record for a women's football match between clubs.
On 1 June 2019, the stadium hosted the
2019 UEFA Champions League Final
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between
Tottenham Hotspur
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and
Liverpool
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in which Liverpool defeated Spurs 2–0.
Transport and access
![Metro de Madrid - Estadio Olímpico 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Metro_de_Madrid_-_Estadio_Ol%C3%ADmpico_01.jpg)
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 link 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 vestibule, and finally access to the
Estadio Metropolitano Metro station.
These infrastructures will be paid by the club for a fee close to 30 million euros.
The second phase was planned to take place after the inauguration. According to the announcement by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, it consists of the opening 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 dual carriageway and
M-40 highway, close to Ciudad Pegaso and the Plenilunio Shopping Center and near the Wanda Metropolitano.
The
City Council
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is in talks with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the
Community of Madrid
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about further improving access to the new stadium and adapting to the substantial increase of traffic to the neighborhood once it is operational. The measures proposed by the municipality of Madrid include a request to extend
line 2 of Metro to the future O'Donnell
Cercanías Madrid station, as well as the connection of said line to
line 7's
Estadio Metropolitano Metro station, which has the largest platform in the network.
There are three more Metro stations within a two to 20 minute walk of the stadium:
Las Rosas
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(line 2),
Canillejas (line 5), and
Las Musas (line 7).
The buses of
EMT Madrid with a stop 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 special service on match days; one line runs from the
Canillejas exchanger to the stadium (SE721 line). Canillejas has connections to
Metro line 5 and EMT bus lines 77, 101, 140, 151 and 200.
Construction gallery
File:Estadio olimpico de Madrid.JPG, External view of ''La Peineta'' before reconstruction in March 2012
File:Frente del Estadio Olimpico de Madrid.JPG, The comb-shaped stand, origin of the nickname of ''La Peineta'', in March 2012
File:La Peineta, detalle de la colocación de la cubierta 3.JPG, Pressure ring of the roof in August 2016
File:Estadio Metropolitano (2017-07)2.JPG, View of the stadium during reconstruction in June 2017
File:Visita a las obras del Wanda Metropolitano, futuro estadio del Atlético - 36358485180.jpg, Inner view of the stadium in August 2017
References
External links
Gallery in the web of the club (updated)Official project video of the stadiumEstadios de España
Non-official website of the expansion works
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Atlético Madrid
Football venues in Madrid
Sports venues completed in 1994
1994 establishments in Spain
Buildings and structures in San Blas-Canillejas District, Madrid