La Cartuja renovation works get underway

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Renovation and expansion work has kicked off on La Cartuja stadium in the Spanish city of Seville to convert it into a football and events venue.

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos said the works, which will ultimately be completed in 2028, include the removal of the athletics track, the enlargement of the stands, access improvements and installation of a glass roof for the new seats.

The remodelling of La Cartuja stadium will increase its capacity by approximately 12,000 seats to a total of more than 70,000, enabling the stadium to become a 5-star venue according to UEFA classification.

The 60,000-capacity Estadio La Cartuja, officially known as the Estadio La Cartuja de Sevilla, is a multipurpose stadium situated in the Isla de la Cartuja in Seville, Spain. It is used mostly for football and the venue is mostly referred to as simply ‘La Cartuja’.

Once work is complete, the stadium will become the third largest in Spain, behind only the Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabeu.

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With a capacity of 71,374 spectators, the stadium will meet FIFA’s requirements to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup™ and has already been officially confirmed as one of the Spanish venues for the tournament.

The 2030 FIFA World Cup™ will be the 24th FIFA World Cup™, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men’s national teams of the member-associations of FIFA.

The 2030 World Cup will mark the centennial World Cup competition. For the first time, three countries from two continents will host the competition, with Spain, Portugal and Morocco as the host nations.

Additionally, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay will serve as nations that open the event as a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the first World Cup in Uruguay.

The renovation project plans to remodel La Cartuja into a multifunctional space, ideal for sporting and cultural events, positioning Seville as a reference in sporting and cultural infrastructure.

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía, Arturo Bernal, the Mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, the General Secretary for Sport of the Junta, José María Rabal, and the architects in charge, Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, visited the site earlier this year to start the work.

“We are starting the works to adapt La Cartuja to the new FIFA regulations that allow us to be a stadium for the 2030 World Cup,” said the Minister of Tourism and Sports.

“It is a very important project and everything is being planned to bring it up to Andalusian standards as the home of national and international sport, and of course the home of the Spanish National Team.”

The works must be ready so that Real Betis can move temporarily to the stadium in the 2025-26 season while their stadium is renovated.

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