Atlético’s Stadium Has A New Name: Cívitas Metropolitano. It’s official. The Wanda era is over . Enrique Cerezo, Atletico president, confirmed this in the presentation of the Sustainability partner and the City of Sport.
It is a real estate developer from Badajoz that will accompany the club for at least the next ten years.
Wanda accompanied Metropolitano since the inauguration of the stadium in 2017, but has already informed the entity that this link would end with the end of the contract. After several months of talks and a few suitors.
It will be Cívitas, represented in the act by its president Alejandro Ayala, Badajoz and mattress maker, the successor and who will shine on the main facade of the athletic coliseum until 2032.
The promoter, on the other hand, will develop the Ciudad del Deporte project, the complex adjacent to the stadium that Atlético is going to build.
Atlético’s Stadium Has A New Name: Cívitas Metropolitano. As confirmed by Enrique Cerezo, this sports city will include a mini-stadium for 6,000 spectators, an athletics track, a high-performance center and various sports spaces, including a beach and an artificial wave.
In conjunction with the City Council, represented by the mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida and the deputy mayor Begoña Villacís, the mattress club carried out an act that was attended by members of the men’s squad such as Koke, Llorente, Oblak, Lemar, João Félix and Morata, of the feminine with Carmen Menayo and Maitane, also the technicians Simeone and Óscar Fernández, and the leaders Miguel Ángel Gil, Enrique Cerezo and Lola Romero.
“A project that will change history”
The mattress president was the first to speak. “It is a special day with many emotions. We are presenting a project that we believe will change our history. I want to thank all the politicians for his presence here and of course the mayor. Today we present an initiative for Madrid to become a reference. The vision of Miguel Ángel Gil materializes, who has worked for years so that this becomes our story.
This announcement comes on the fifth anniversary of our stadium. The environment has grown and has been provided with green areas, recreation and new accesses. It endorses our commitment to continue implementing improvements that benefit the entire neighborhood.”
Alejandro Ayala, president of Cívitas, gave voice to the company from Extremadura. “ Adelardo Rodríguez represents many things in Badajoz and represents everything in Atlético.
We were born in Badajoz. Cívitas starts in the city of Extremadura, but intends to expand throughout the national territory. We have some 200 million of our own funds and in 2024-25 we want to be in 1,000 homes a year and 500 million.
In Extremadura we have the largest lithium reserves in Europe. We will make investments of 1,000 million euros and in Badajoz we will commit to R&D.
Atlético and its fans have been characterized by teamwork, sentiment and we are going to bet on the health of the environment that surrounds us and align ourselves with the United Nations 2030 agenda.
We add to the values that have always accompanied the club the commitment to the United Nations agenda”.
When asked later about the waiting period, Ayala indicated that “the deadlines for the execution of the work should be completed in three or four years.
Atlético’s project is unique, in the same area we will have the stadium with the new Sports City betting on sustainability, leisure together with a brand like Atlético. We understood that it is a unique opportunity.”
The Sports City will have a first plot for the construction of six football fields that will be the headquarters of one of the high performance facilities for training and complete activity of the first team, the reserve team and the club’s two best youth teams.
The second will have a mini-stadium with a capacity of more than 6,000 spectators, 25 paddle tennis courts, a climbing wall, a space for teaching and practicing surfing and an area for practicing skating and jumping,among others.
And the third will host elements of complementary and associated uses allowed in the planning (commercial and hotel) in an Associated Services Center of the area as a whole.
Meanwhile, in the other two plots that are not the object of the concession, Atlético will finance and build numerous sports facilities (football 11, soccer 7, handball, futsal, volleyball or badminton and paddle tennis, among others) whose operation will correspond to the City Council.
In addition, the club will be in charge of executing the interior road infrastructures of the area and will carry out the works to connect the space with the M-40, an improvement in access to said road for the residents of San Blas-Canillejas and that will complete the modification already carried out in 2017, the year the Metropolitan Stadium was inaugurated.
Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida set the deadline for the project of the new Sports City in two years . “It is a long-awaited project for Atlético.
We know how complicated it is, the demands of the fan, but looking at this Cívitas Metropolitano and a Sports City that will be a reality in two or three years, it is an enormous legacy.
It is based on an investment of more than 200 million that will allow Atlético to have an extraordinary Sports City, equipped with the best facilities and also that all the neighbors have unparalleled sports spaces”.
“I also thank Cívitas for these sustainability projects and once again it is a hallmark of the city of Madrid.
We count on the effort of the Madrid club, we all know how difficult it was to move from the Vicente Calderón here, but five years later we know the qualitative leap of the stadium.
It is an important and special day for the city of Madrid, public and private collaboration and with society are put in contact.
It would be impossible without Atlético for the public to be able to enjoy these sports spaces and new road entrances in just two years.
We continue to work in the world of sport, the ability to value our teams in Madrid, but also our bases. Now we have to work even harder to make this a reality”, concluded the mayor.
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