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Estadio La Rosaleda

Formerly: Estadio La Rosaleda
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Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga, from the left bank of the Rio Guadalmedina. The stadium lights are on as a Málaga CF home game is in progress.
Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga, from the left bank of the Rio Guadalmedina. The stadium lights are on as a Málaga CF home game is in progress. Alan Grant · CC BY 4.0
The La Rosaleda Football Stadium is an emblematic venue located in Malaga, Spain. It is the headquarters of Málaga Club de Fútbol, ​​where their home matches are played in the Second Division of Spanish professional football
The La Rosaleda Football Stadium is an emblematic venue located in Malaga, Spain. It is the headquarters of Málaga Club de Fútbol, ​​where their home matches are played in the Second Division of Spanish professional football Jorgekoke 10 · CC BY 4.0
Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga, as seen from the southeast across the Río Guadalmedina. The stadium lights are on as a game is in progress.
Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga, as seen from the southeast across the Río Guadalmedina. The stadium lights are on as a game is in progress. Alan Grant · CC BY 4.0

La Rosaleda sits on the Guadalmedina, and everything about the place still traces back to a single project: the ground opened in stages, with a first match played in April 1941, the work of architects Enrique Atencia and Fernando Guerrero-Strachan. Ownership never settled into one pair of hands the way it does at most clubs — the city council, the regional government of Andalusia each hold a third, with Málaga CF renting the pitch it plays on.

The stadium's international résumé outweighs its size. It staged three group matches at the 1982 World Cup, including the Soviet Union's meetings with Scotland and New Zealand, and hosted a European Cup tie in 1976 between Real Madrid and Club Brugge only because UEFA had barred Real from its own ground that season. Málaga later won the 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup final here, and the Copa de la Reina final was played on the same turf in 2020.

Renovation between 2000 and 2006 brought the ground up to modern safety standards, added roofing over the stands and built out the hospitality boxes, settling capacity at just over 30,000. That figure is due to move again: plans for a rebuilt "Nueva Rosaleda," tied to Spain's hosting of the 2030 World Cup, would push capacity toward 45,000 under a full roof, at a projected cost above €270 million.

Away from football, the stadium has doubled as one of the city's biggest concert venues, with George Michael, Shakira and Alejandro Sanz among the acts to have filled it.