Estadio Riazor

The stadium opened in October 1944, but the version supporters know now is really the product of three separate rebuilds, each one answering to a different demand.

The first came in 1982, when the World Cup arrived and Riazor got two new double-tiered stands along its long sides, their sail-shaped roofs hung from cables — a design that still defines the skyline around the pitch. Poland, Peru and Cameroon played out their group games here that summer, Poland's 5–1 win over Peru the only one of the three with goals to speak of. The municipality covered most of the cost, a pattern that repeated when the short ends were rebuilt through the 1990s and the running track that had ringed the pitch was finally torn out, turning Riazor into a football-only, all-seater ground.

The roof itself became the problem later. By the 2010s the metalwork was ageing badly enough that the club spent 2015 to 2018 stripping and restoring more than 700 tonnes of steel rather than replacing the structure outright.

The record crowd dates to 14 May 2000, when Deportivo closed out the title against Espanyol in front of some 40,000 inside — the high point of a ground that has otherwise hosted a Copa del Rey final, Spain internationals, and, in 1983, the city's first large rock concert, played out in the rain.