Floodlight Friday: Estadio Municipal de Ipurua

The tiny but mighty ground of La Liga.

Ground: Estadio Municipal de Ipurua

Built: 1947

Capacity: 8,164

Home: SD Eibar

Location: Eibar, Spain

Prior to 2021, Ipurua Municipal Stadium was the smallest ground in Spain’s topflight LaLiga for seven consecutive campaigns. For the first seven years of the club’s existence they played their games on field and grassy areas around the city of Eibar, in the region of Gipuzkoa, before building the Estadio Municipal de Ipurua. Translating to Ipurua Municipal Stadium in English, the club’s ground opened in 1947 and has been improved upon numerous times since then. With a capacity of a little over 7,000, the stadium didn’t set its record attendance until Real Madrid turned up for a La Liga game in 2017

The stadium follows the more 'English' style of having separate stands on each edge of the pitch. This goes against the more European manner of having a bowl of continuous seating. In appearance it is somewhat similar to a League Two stadium in the UK. The North and South Stands run along the edge of the pitch and are low-rise in nature, whilst the East and West Stands are behind the goal and are where the away fans and Eibar’s most vocal supporters tend to sit. The North Stand is what you would consider to be the stadium’s main stand.