Estadio de Mestalla

The Estadio de Mestalla, or simply Mestalla, is a football stadium owned by Valencia Club de Fútbol, a club of the highest UEFA and FIFA category, located in the Mestalla district of the city of Valencia (Spain), between Avenida de Suecia and Avenida de Aragón. The stadium has a capacity of 49,430 spectators. Since January 2020, it has been the oldest stadium in Spain's First Division. It takes its name from the Mestalla irrigation channel, which spectators coming from the centre of Valencia had to cross to reach the stadium.

Inaugurated on 20 May 1923, it owes its name to the historic Mestalla irrigation channel, which ran alongside the stadium's south stand. Between 1969 and 1994 it was called Estadio Luis Casanova, in honour of Luis Casanova Giner, regarded as one of the best presidents in the club's history and the driving force behind the greatest transformation of the stadium in the 1950s. It is the largest stadium in the Valencian Community and the eighth-largest in Spain by capacity.

Mestalla is considered one of the most vertical stadiums in the world and is commonly recognised as the most vertical in Europe. The steepest stand has an incline of approximately 34–35 degrees, very close to the legal safety limit set by FIFA and UEFA (37°). This feature places it above stadiums such as the Giuseppe Meaza (Milan), La Bombonera and Monumental (Buenos Aires), Maracaná (Rio de Janeiro), Signal Iduna Park (Dortmund) and Stamford Bridge (London). The closeness of the crowd to the pitch also sets it apart, as few stadiums offer such a close feeling to the grass.

Since its early years, the stadium has hosted matches of great international importance. In 1982 it staged matches in the final phase of the World Cup in Spain, of which it was one of the seventeen venues. Later, it hosted five matches of Spain's Olympic team during the 1992 Olympic Games. In 2025 it staged the second leg of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Nations League. It has also been the venue for ten Copa del Rey finals.