thats similar to berlin derbies - both are not that often
btw i was like 10 times at mallorca when i was a kid but never mananged to see a stadium / game there

Well, before Mallorca moved to Son Moix stadium in 1999, it was fun going to the stadium to watch games. The old stadum, Lluis Sitjar, had a great atmosphere, but our new home has running tracks and stuff that keep the grass far away from the crowd and kills the atmosphere.

The old stadium had room for 30k people, but after safety rules enforced that all stadia had to have a 100% seating capacity, only half the amount of people cound get in. This made it impossible for many fans to get tickets, so the club decided to move to Son Moix, which is public property, because it had room for 23k.

Every Mallorca fan misses the old stadium and dislikes the new one... there have been a few projects for either a new stadium or renewing the old Lluis Sitjar (which is completely abandoned and almost in ruins), but unfortunately nothing has come out of it.



As for the other stadia in Mallorca, the only other big one is Atlético Baleares' stadium (Estadi Balear), which is about as big as Mallorca's, but it' in a shit state atm... it's so bad that the team has had to play in another much smaller stadium this seaon, because they don't have enough money to fix it (it was built in the 50s oor 60s when they were in Segunda and were hoping to make a strong team capable of reaching Primera... that never happened and the club ended up with a stadium which was too expensive to mantain).

The 3rd biggest club in Mallorca, Constancia, has a 10k seat stadium I think. The rest of the clubs in the island are pretty much irrelevant and have hardly any fan base.

well i like your current stadium ( its that one right? )

how many people are watching mallorca games in the stadium?

In the current stadium (23k seats), it was usually full during the first years but then it died down a bit and went down to an average 18k-20k attendance. The fact the running tracks made the atmosphere less intense and the increasing price of tickets caused this decline in attendance.

This season, in Segunda, the attendance has been halved. The season started off with 12k-15k people going, which is pretty good considering the average attendance in Segunda is 9-10k (again it's this low because the tickets are too expensive), but then the number of attendance has dropped even more becaause people have become fed up with the club (I say club and not team because it's mainly just the people running it that have caused this upset). It's their way of protesting... although I really don't think it's the best way to protest, because the players need people in the stadium to support them.


This is our current stadium (Son Moix):



This is the old one (Lluís Sitjar):



And this is how the old one looks now that it's abandoned:



As you can see, it's impossible to go back to it unless a lot of money is invested in renewing and expanding it, and the club obviously doesn't have the money atm.

This post was edited by zarkadon on May 12 2014 04:54am

So I'm going to the postobon championship . ( colombian cup )

I'm super hyped I already got my Nacional jersey , the game is May 20th I believe

Nacional vs junior

Vamos verde!!!!

Mourinho is in Waregem to watch Zulte-Waregem vs Anderlecht, obviously checking up on how Thorgan Hazard is playing

Down 1-0, another red card, happy days

Another red for us 2-1 atm

Ready for him to be sent on loan to Middlesbrough

My club Pachuca vs Leon in the finals.

First leg 3-2 in pachucas favor and now we play second leg on sunday at home!