El Alcoraz Stadium

Estadio El Alcoraz is the name of SD Huesca's football stadium. It was named after the battle of Alcoraz which took place there in 1096.

It is located next to San Jorge's hill and it has a capacity of 7,638 people. The architect Raimundo Bambo was in charge of stadium's design and construction. The cost of his work was covered thanks to the efforts of Jose Maria Mur, the club's president at that time. He was the one who suggested building a stadium and started the project, which lasted for 4 years. The stadium's cost amounted to approximately 15 million pesetas (about 90,000 euros).

It was opened on January 16, 1972 with a match between SD Huesca and Deportivo Aragon. In 1986, with the club drowning debts, the stadium went to auction. About 200 managers and fans of the club joined to form a society that won the auction, thus rescuing the stadium from the bank's embargo. Since then it has witnessed many social and sport events. These include a Copa del Rey match in 1990 between SD Huesca and Cadiz CF, which took place on December 13 and ended in a 0:0 tie followed by the Cadiz CF win by penalty shoot-out in the second game.

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