Osasuna He looks into the future and clearly knows the path of the entity. The president of the rojillo club, Luis Sabalzapresented on Tuesday the roadmap of the entity that foresees the expansion of the Sports City of Tajonar, where the future stars of the red team are cooked and prepared.
In a beautiful act held at El Sadar stadium In front of almost half a thousand people, the Osasuna president revealed that the red club was going to undertake one of its most important investments after the renovation of El Sadar and that it would be the improvement and expansion of Tajonar, inaugurated in 1982.
Luis Sabalza, revealed that Osasuna will build a new stadium with natural grass with a capacity of 2,800 spectators, two natural grass pitches, two other artificial grass pitches and a two-storey building in which the daily work of the first team will be housed and which will also house the office activity that is currently carried out which took place at the El Sadar stadium.
The planned expansion will be carried out on land which They currently belong to Osasuna after being recovered in 2021. Originally, the land on which the Tajonar expansion will be built was acquired by the club in 2004, but had to be delivered to the Government of Navarre in 2014 to settle part of the tax debt. In 2021, the entity recovered 166,264 square meters for 6.5 million euros. Part of it will now be used to turn Tajonar into one of the main sports cities in the country.
In the presentation, in which besides the president, Luis Sabalza, the general director of the Fran Canal club, intervened. and the OFS architect, Jaime Suescun, the planned actions, their cost and their execution deadlines were detailed. Osasuna will dedicate 18 million euros to the expansion of the Tajonar Sports City. Of this amount, Around 13 million will come from the LaLiga participatory loan (CVC)while the other 5 will be financed by the club during the three years that the construction of the new facilities should last.
The extension was designed by the team of KREAN architectswith experience in carrying out similar projects for Athletic Club de Lezama or Sociedad Deportiva Eibar in its new sports city in Mallabia. The preliminary design, project management and project management will be carried out by OFS Architectes, with whom the club has already worked on the project. Successful renovation of the El Sadar stadium.
The project includes the construction of a small natural grass stadium with two standsa main one and a smaller one located just opposite. The main stands, accessible from Polígono Industrial Berroa Street (next to Transportes Lizarraldea), will have a capacity of approximately 2,200 spectators, all covered. The building located opposite will house the stadium’s changing rooms, as well as other auxiliary changing rooms, as well as a covered stand for approximately 600 people. This will bring the stadium’s capacity to 2,800 spectators.
The project proposes a future expansion that will not be carried out for the moment and which foresees the construction of a grandstand in each of the swimming pools to increase the total capacity to 5,000 spectatorsThe stadium will serve both Osasuna Feminine as Osasuna promises play their home games there.
In addition, Osasuna to build two-storey building next to two new natural grass pitches. The ground floor, measuring 2,030 square metres, will house all the necessary services for the daily life of the first team: gym, medical area, changing rooms, hydrotherapy area, warehouses, offices for the technical staff, audiovisual room for tactical work, dining room and kitchen. This will allow the The team’s first activity moves to the new building and the club is adapting the current facilities to significantly improve the working conditions of all its basic teams and, above all, of Osasuna Femenino and Osasuna Promesas.
The building will have a first floor of 1,370 square meters and 960 square meters additional square meters of terraces. A large part of the office activity of the El Sadar stadium will be located on this floor. It is planned that Tajonar welcomes the activity of the General Management and the departments of Communication, Digital, Marketing, Operation, Technology and Infrastructure and the Osasuna Foundation, as well as a meeting room and the president’s office.
The transfer will allow free up places at El Sadar stadium to obtain new resources. In addition, the new Tajonar building will have a multipurpose space with a capacity for approximately 90 people that will allow its use as a press room and meeting room for any type of events, presentations or conferences.
The new facilities will also be designed for the enjoyment of the club’s members. For this purpose, the Araguren Valley has given up the use, for 20 years, of a 19,104 square meter plot of land in order to be able to build a parking lot with a capacity of approximately 600 vehiclesThis will allow supporters easy access to the stadium on match days and to the first team training grounds during the week. Tajonar will have a public bar with terrace in a privileged location of the facility to regain the social character of the facilities. In addition, the club has decided that the first team training grounds have a small covered gabled stands so that fans can follow the open sessions whether they take place on one ground or another.
In addition, Tajonar will have two new artificial grass pitches located between the current facilities and the new first team building. This action will make the Futuro Tajonar has a total of 12 football pitches, 5 of which are natural grass and 7 of which are artificial grass, placing the red sports city among the country’s leading facilities. Nevertheless, Tajonar will be one of the sub-venues of the World Cup to be held in Spain, Portugal and Morocco in 2030.
Regarding the execution deadlines, the OFS architectural team explained during the presentation that the The 2024-2025 season will be used to develop the preliminary projectconstruction project, obtaining the corresponding licenses and various essential steps to carry out a project of this magnitude. Without excluding the possibility that certain actions may start earlier, the start of the bulk of the work is planned for September 2025. From there, 24 months of work are calculated so that the extension can be carried out. debut with the start of the 2027-2028 season.
