Home of the Real Madrid football club, Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is a world-renowned football stadium located in Madrid, Spain.
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, officially named Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Madrid, Spain. It is used mostly for association football matches, hosting the home games of Spanish club Real Madrid, its owner.
Opened on 14 December 1947 with a match between Real Madrid and Portuguese club Belenenses, it replaced the original Campo de Chamartin, which had 22,500 seats. The seating capacity of the new stadium is currently set at 81,044. The stadium was designed by architects Luis Alemany Soler and Manuel Muñoz Monasterio and had a construction cost of 288.342 million pesetas.
A UEFA category four stadium and one of the biggest stadiums by capacity in Europe (the biggest in Spain), Santiago Bernabeu Stadium hosted several matches of the UEFA Euro 1964, including its final, as well as the finals of the UEFA Champions League in 1957, 1969, 1980, 2010, and 2020. It was elected the most beautiful stadium of Europe in a 2014 online poll by L'Équipe. By its seventieth birthday, Estadio Santiago Bernabeu had welcomed more than 81 million spectators. The stadium is one of the potential venues for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, which Spain will co-host along with Portugal and Morocco.
'Estadio Santiago Bernabeu (1947)': This is an official reference from Real Madrid C.F, providing information about the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. https://www.realmadrid.com
'Santiago Bernabeu Stadium (El Coliseo Blanco) – until 2003': This reference provides historical data about the stadium until 2003. http://www.stadiumdb.com
