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Valencia Football Club
Valencia Club de Fútbol (also known as Valencia C.F., Valencia or Los Che)
is a Spanish professional football club based in Valencia.
They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in
Spanish football.
Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, two Fairs
Cups which was the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Cup
Winners' Cup, two UEFA Super Cups and two Spanish Super Cups. They have also
reached two UEFA Champions League finals in a row, losing to La Liga rivals
Real Madrid in 2000 and then German club Bayern Munich in 2001. Valencia
were also members of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs. In
total, Valencia have reached seven major European finals, winning four of
them.
In the all-time La Liga table, Valencia is in 3rd position behind Real
Madrid and FC Barcelona. In terms of international titles, Valencia is again
the 3rd-most successful behind Real Madrid and Barcelona - these three being
the only Spanish clubs to have won five or more international trophies.
Valencia were founded in 1919, and have played their home games at the
55,000-seater Estadio Mestalla since 1923. They are soon to move into the
75,000-seater Nou Mestalla in the north-west of the city in 2010. Valencia
have a long-standing rivalry with Levante, also located in Valencia, and
with another club in the Valencian Community region, Villarreal.
Valencia is the third-most popular football team in Spain, only behind Real
Madrid and FC Barcelona. It is also one of the biggest clubs in the world in
terms of number of associates (registered paying supporters), with more than
50,000 season ticket holders and another 20,000+ season ticket holders on
the waiting list, which will come into effect once the new 75,000-seater
stadium is built.
Nou Mestalla is a football stadium under construction in Valencia, Spain for
Valencia CF.
The plans of the new stadium was unveiled in 2006 and on the 10th november
2006 former president Juan Soler and the club unveiled details about the
stadium and presented a short film about the stadium at the "Museu Príncep
Felip in Valencia.
The work of Nou Mestalla began in August 2007. It was due to be completed in
the early summer 2009 in time for the 2009/10 season, but due to financial
problems this date has been postponed. The stadium will have a capacity of
75,000. It replaces their current stadium Estadio Mestalla. The stadium
architects are Reid Fenwick Asociados and ArupSport, and the cost is
estimated between 250 and 300 million euros. The ground will have a
futuristic exterior, clad in aluminium and interior of wood.
The proposed stadium development is on wasteground on the site of a former
factory in the neighbourhood of Benicalap, around three miles west of
Valencia city centre. It will be one of the largest stadia in Europe when
opened.
