Osasuna threw the house out the window

This Monday, Club Atlético Osasuna presented the project to expand it sports city under the name ‘Futuro Tajonar’, an ambitious plan with a 2,800-seat stadium and a building for the first team as main references within a budget of 18 million euros.

The transformation of the current Tajonar will begin in September 2025. From there, 24 months of works are estimated to bring the expansion to light by the start of the 2027-2028 season.

He president of the entity, Luis Sabalzahas revealed that Osasuna will build a small natural grass stadium with a capacity for 2,800 spectators, two natural grass fields, another two artificial grass fields and a two-story building where the the daily work of the first team will take place and which is also home to the office activity that is currently being carried out at the El Sadar stadium.

“Look to tomorrow and do it with enthusiasm”, Sabalza indicated on the stage set up inside El Sadar for the occasion. First team, Promesas, women’s team, board of directors, club workers and other guests came to the stadium to witness this historic performance before and after.

“Our goal is for Osasuna to be in the First Division for many years. We believe that this stay has to be translated into a legacy, and the best legacy is an Osasuna with a future. We have been working for more than a year this project,” the president continued.

In the presentation, where, in addition to the president, the the club’s general director, Fran Canal, and OFS architect, Jaime Suescunthe planned actions, their cost and implementation deadlines are detailed.

Osasuna will allocate 18 million euros to the expansion of Tajonar Sports City. Of that amount, approximately 13 million will come from the LaLiga participatory loan (CVC), while the remaining 5 will be financed by the club for the nearly three years it is expected to take to build the new facilities.

“This club has a reason for being, the quarry. “We need facilities that will allow us to continue growing, exciting people,” he said. Channel in the media cited for the presentation.

The The planned expansion will take place on land currently owned by Osasuna after being reclaimed in 2021. Originally, the land where the Tajonar expansion would be built was acquired by the club in 2004, but had to be delivered to the Government of Navarra in 2014 to pay part of the tax debt. In 2021, the entity acquired 166,264 square meters for 6.5 million euros. A part of them will now be used to make Tajonar one of the leading sports cities in the country.

With our feet on the ground, and comparing quarry results with great clubs in Spain, Canal said that “we keep accumulating positive results and that can give us many lives. We can’t go crazy or put the team in debt by doing things that shouldn’t be done.”

Osasuna will build a two-story building next to two new natural grass fields. The ground floor, measuring 2,030 square meters, will bring together all the services needed for the daily life of the first team: gym, medical area, locker room, hydrotherapy area, warehouses, office for coaching staff, audiovisual room for tactical work, dining room and kitchen.

This will allow the activity of the first team to move to the new building and the club to adapt the current facilities to significantly improve the working conditions of all its base teams and, in particular, Osasuna Femenino and Osasuna Promesas .

A parking lot for 600 vehicles on a 19,104 square meter plot will allow fans easy access to the stadium on match days and to the first team’s training fields during the week. A new social bar is also part of the project.

In addition, Tajonar will have two new artificial grass fields located between the current facilities and the new first team building. This action will make Futuro Tajonar have a total of 12 football fields, 5 of them with natural grass and 7 with artificial grass, placing the red sports city as one of the top facilities in the country. However, Tajonar will be one of the sub-venues of the World Cup to be held in Spain, Portugal and Morocco in 2030.