The City Council will expand the network of sports facilities with a new soccer field next to the Palacio de Congresos

The new facility, which can be transformed into two different spaces for 7-a-side soccer, will have 144 seats, changing rooms, toilets and offices.

The Estepona City Council will expand the network of sports facilities in the city with a new 11-a-side soccer field located next to the Palacio de Congresos.

The project responds to the public-private partnership, being the owners of the land the ones in charge of the execution of the works, which have a contracting budget of 784,211 euros. The facilities will be transferred to the municipality and the City Council will be in charge of their management.

The soccer field, designed for the practice of 11-a-side soccer, will have dimensions of 110×68.50 meters, and will offer the possibility of playing on two 7-a-side soccer fields inside. It will have artificial turf and complete equipment: two benches for players and another one for the fourth official, as well as two stands with a total of 144 seats, of which half of the seats in each of the stands will be covered.

The complex will be completed with several prefabricated modules for toilets, changing rooms and administrative areas. Specifically, there will be two modules for toilets (one for women and one for men), as well as a third for people with functional diversity. As for the locker rooms, a total of six have been planned. Four of them for players and two for referees. All are equipped with toilets and showers.

There will be three other modules in the stadium: a kiosk, a space for storing materials and another for offices.

The project also contemplates the protection of the entire perimeter of the playing field with a fence that supports a six-meter-high protective net to prevent balls from leaving the stadium.

The property will provide the field with vehicle access, pedestrian paths, lighting, and an irrigation and drainage system for the proper evacuation of rainwater, both from the playing field and from the platforms for the placement of the bleachers and the different modules. In addition, it plans to build a second sports complex in the area, which will also be transferred to the City Council for its management.

The City Council, through the Municipal Sports Department, has reached an agreement for the city’s grassroots soccer teams to train in these new facilities.

Estepona has increased in the last 13 years the sports facilities with important facilities such as the climbing wall, the Fair and Sports Park, where you can practice more than twenty disciplines for free throughout the year, the Athletics Stadium, which has become a benchmark in Andalusia, or the various tracks that have been created both in the neighborhoods and in residential areas of the suburbs.