The day of the Great premiere of the renovated stadium of The Cartuja. This Saturday, at 22.00, the expected final of the Copa del Rey de Soccer of this 2025 will be played between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. As promised, the reform of the enclosure remains in the deadline and will arrive in time outsidized So that in five days everything is ready and prepared for the match, from the grass and the stands inside to lighting and accesses abroad.
Operators work without stopping, although The most complicated part of the works that were set for this month of April is already Finished, like the grass and the stands. Details within the stadium continue to be finalized and especially outside, to prepare the surroundings for the arrival of thousands of fans. Last year, 100,000 people filled Seville for the Copa del Rey, and in this edition this sports venue will premiere its new capacity, 70,000 spectatorsso it will be the most massive final of recent years, since it can now host 10,000 more fans.
According to municipal sources to this newspaper, The actions outside the Cartuja stadium began more than a week ago and that adent it is still underway. Above all, as Daniel Oviedo, manager of this sports venue, explained, has dedicated himself Special Attention to the Southern Sector“where most of the public comes.” Specifically, this previous intervention consists of reasfaltar to the area “To improve entry”, thus attending to one of the main claims that spectators had. The asphalt of the rest of the roads of the stadium is also being reinforced.
The La Cartuja Stadium already looks the new lawn / Jorge Jiménez
In the face of perfecting the pedestrian accessibility of Real Madrid and Barcelona fans, Junta de Andalucía and City Council of Seville work in an improvement of lighting in accesses, of signaling for pedestrians and private vehicles or public transport, of the image of the works around, or in the Care of green areas that is in the perimeter of the stadium. All these works are underway and will continue in the remainder of the week to ensure that everything is perfectly.
These urgent actions are mainly held for the final of this Saturday. Once the classic passes, a deeper intervention will be carried out for the redevelopment of the accesses to the stadium for the arrival of Real Betis, who will play in this field his meetings at home from next season.
Exteriors of the Cartuja stadium, where they are working to adapt them / Jorge Jiménez
New grass and extension of the stands
Inside the stadium, Intense rains hindered the pace of work for the placement of the new grass and the expansion of the stand. Finally, once there was a respite, those setbacks were solved thanks to the work of A human team formed by more than 60 technicians and 500 operatorsin double shifts, to meet the deadlines.
As this newspaper could verify, for just over a week the stadium already looks new. An area of 8,800 square meters has been placedwhich is equivalent to 21 trucks, as detailed from the Junta de Andalucía, with the guarantee that the bulk will be sufficient so that “neither is there nor any kind of failure occurs.” The last works with respect to the green have been to water it to reach in perfect condition and The painting of the lines.
Césped preparation work for the Cup final / Jorge Jiménez
And with regard to La townthey have also worked on lay enough in advance. It must be remembered that the stadium reform process, led by the Junta de Andalucía, has been in this first phase An investment of 12 million euros for the extension of its capacity and thus become the third largest stadium in Spain.
To do this, The stands have been expanded with a new low ring and has been dispensed with the athletics track. It is the most significant change. The grass, goals, benches and the pit of jumps had to be completely lifted to lower the level of the pitch. In recent days the last chairs have been placed and will continue until the last day with the Little Cleaning Labor After works and rains.
Already this weekend, in the eyes of the world, you can see something that Rafael Louzán, the current president of the Spanish Federation, defined as “The Sevillian Wembley”. And to complete the works of the stadium In the coming years, in a second phase, the rest of the exterior improvements will be undertakenwhere right now there are parking spaces or space to house concerts and music festivals. The facades and the skin of the enclosure will be replaced, and the ordering of the surrounding plots will be addressed to improve mobility in the environment and accesses, thus complying with all the FIFA standards.
At the moment, what has already been confirmed for the redevelopment of the environment is A parking lot for more than 12,000 places with photovoltaic pergolas; the urbanization of pacerlas of 970,000 square meters in total for sports and cultural acts; the three road execution in each sense in the southern zone; and the construction of a roundabout on Américo Vespucio Street. All this at the expense of the drafting of the project to order and develop these lands attached to the sports venue, which the company Stadium La Cartuja (which manages it), brought out a tender in February with an estimated value of 589,440.61 euros (VAT included).
