Pamplona will have its first municipal rugby field in 2025. It will be built in the Berichitos regionbehind the San Jorge Sports City. The first phase of the work has a budget of 1.4 million euros, of which 500,000 euros will be financed by the Government of Navarra thanks to a grant.
There is already a project evaluation report, with the characteristics of the new sports facility, which we want to approve by the end of the year. THE field construction work They have a turnaround time of seven months.
The Infrastructure Master Plan of the Government of Navarra provides for the construction of a rugby field in Pamplona. This plan values the works worth 2.5 million euros for a complete equipment which would include not only the playing field itself, but also other facilities such as changing rooms and covered stands.
Pamplona City Hall anticipates that the development of This work takes place in two phases. The first phase will consist of the construction of the rugby field, made of artificial turf and category 1b, to be able to host high-level matches.
The Navarro Institute of Sports and Physical activity and Pamplona City Hall They will sign an agreement to give legal cover to the subsidy of 500,000 euros that the Government of Navarra will grant to realize this first phase of the rugby field.
For a second phase, the construction of the permanent changing areawith six for the different sports teams and two for the refereeing teams, as well as covered stands with a capacity of 500 or 1,000 people and a series of spaces for private use as well for the Navarra Rugby Federation as for existing clubs.
Approved measurements also suitable for 8-a-side football
A category 1b rugby fieldwhich continues to the southeast the landscaped strip of the Ciudad Deportiva San Jorge swimming pools, with minimum dimensions of 94 x 68 meters, two marking zones of 10 meters and an approved perimeter safety strip of 5 meters.
To facilitate the amortization of the use of the field, it is planned to make this use compatible with the practice of so-called 8-a-side football. The configuration of the playing fields. for football 8 It will take place across the entire width of the rugby field, thus generating two fields.
The first phase of work includes, apart from the fieldan adjacent platform which will allow the installation of portable stands and changing rooms, without prejudice to the future possibility, in the second phase, of materializing the definitive facilities.
These steps will be located in the area closest to the municipal cemetery. The proximity of the San José cemetery ring road and another adjacent municipal land will allow the location of another pedestrian and road access, in addition to that planned through the San Jorge Sports City.
The complete land which will house the new infrastructure It has an area of 40,030.80 m2. Of this, the part to be delimited by the rugby field and the complementary spaces whose construction is planned in the different phases will occupy an approximate area of 16,100 m.2.
It must be taken into account that a strip of approximately 600 m will need to be leveled2 corresponding the southern slope of the San Jorge Sports City groundsthe total area of the action will therefore be approximately 17,000 m2. Most of the land on which the rugby field will be built corresponds to the former Diputación nurseries.
