The Estadio Álvarez Claro is a stadium in

Melilla Melilla ( , ; ; rif, Mřič ; ar, مليلية ) is an autonomous city of Spain located in north Africa. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of . It was pa ...

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. It is currently used for

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

matches and it is the home venue of

UD Melilla Unión Deportiva Melilla is a Spanish football team based in the autonomous city of Melilla. Founded in 1976, it currently plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 5, holding home matches at ''Estadio Municipal Álvarez Claro'', with a 8,000 ca ...

. It was inaugurated on September 29, 1945. Owned by the autonomous city of Melilla, the stadium holds about 8,000 spectators.

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Municipal Alvarez Claro UD Melilla Sport in Melilla Sports venues completed in 1945 Buildings and structures in Melilla {{Spain-sports-venue-stub