Estadio de La Romareda is the home stadium of Real Zaragoza, in Zaragoza. It was inaugurated on September 8, 1957 with a game between Real Zaragoza and CA Osasuna (4-3).
The stadium has gone through various upgrades in 1977 and in 1982, when it was a 1982 FIFA World Cup venue. The stadium was also used for group matches and one quarter-final during the 1992 Olympics. It became an all seater stadium in 1994.
The official capacity is 34,596, with a...
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Estadio de La Romareda is the home stadium of Real Zaragoza, in Zaragoza. It was inaugurated on September 8, 1957 with a game between Real Zaragoza and CA Osasuna (4-3).
The stadium has gone through various upgrades in 1977 and in 1982, when it was a 1982 FIFA World Cup venue. The stadium was also used for group matches and one quarter-final during the 1992 Olympics. It became an all seater stadium in 1994.
The official capacity is 34,596, with an average attendance of around 30,000 for Real Zaragoza matches.
Plans to build a new stadium in Zaragoza have been abandoned.
La Romareda was proposed as the Olympic Stadium in Jaca's failed bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Works for the enlargement of La Romareda into a 43,000-seater stadium were due to begin on April 17, 2006 and end in time for the Zaragoza Expo of 2008. However, a lawsuit was filed by a political party (PAR), claiming that the enlargement of the stadium would be to the detriment of the population, in order to suspend the...
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