Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas

Historia

Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas is a football stadium in the Madrid neighborhood of Vallecas, Spain. It currently hosts football matches and is the home ground of Segunda División club Rayo Vallecano. The stadium holds 14,505 spectators and was opened on 10 May 1976. It was constructed between 1972 and 1976, and it existed also under the names Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas and Estadio Puente de Vallecas .MiscellaneousCampo de Fútbol de Vallecas was the venue for the 1940 Copa del Generalísimo Final, as the Copa del Rey was known during the General Franco dictatorship. It was the home stadium of Racing de Madrid from the neighboring city of Chamberí, and its successor Agrupación Recreativa Chamberí. Atletico Madrid also played their home matches between 1939–1943 after the Spanish Civil War as the Metropolitan was destroyed by the war.Rayo Vallecano Stadiums over time:The chess federation of Madrid is based at the basements of the stadium.There is also a well known boxing gym called "El Rayo".