Ciudad Deportiva José Luis Compañón
Ibaia | |
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| Location | Vitoria-Gasteiz Álava, Basque Country, Spain |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 42°49′56″N 2°43′16″W / 42.832119°N 2.721115°W |
| Owner | Deportivo Alavés |
| Type | Football training facility |
| Opened | 1982 |
| Tenants | |
| Deportivo Alavés (training) Alavés B Alavés Gloriosas | |
The Ciudad Deportiva José Luis Compañón (José Luis Compañón Sport City / Basque: José Luis Compañón Kirol Hiria), also known as Instalaciones de Ibaia (Ibaia Facilities / Basque: Ibaia instalazioak) after the name of its semi-rural location, is the primary training ground of Spanish professional football club Deportivo Alavés, located in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava (Basque Country).
Facilities
[edit]The complex is in the Zuazo/Zuhatsu district on the south-western edge of the Vitoria-Gasteiz urban area, about 3 km west of the club's Mendizorrotza stadium. As of 2018, the facilities consisted of three full-size grass pitches and one with artificial turf, with associated changing areas and a small gymnasium.[1][2][3]
One of these pitches is utilised as the home stadium of the club's reserve team, Alavés B, who usually play in the Tercera División (fourth tier of the Spanish football league system). The club's women's team[4] and academy teams also usually play their fixtures at Ibaia.
In 2018, Alavés offered use of Ibaia facilities to local affiliated team San Ignacio for matches after they were promoted to the Tercera División, due to the Federation being concerned with the condition of the playing surface at the latter's usual ground Adurtzabal.[5]
History of the site
[edit]The Ibaia complex was constructed in the 1980s[6] on land owned by the club president Juan Arregui[7] and was modernised in 2002 during a period of success for the club, at which time the complex was renamed in memory of José Luis Compañón,[6] a popular and long-serving Alavés director who had recently died.[8]
In spite of grand plans to add a roof over the pitches or build a golf gourse and hotel,[6] little additional investment was made in the training facility over the next decade which was a time of sporting and financial upheaval for the club under the chaotic stewardship of Dmitry Piterman. Complications over ownership of a section of the land (one of the football pitches and the car park) led to that portion of the complex lying unused for several years due to the costs involved,[9][10] which caused problems regarding access for vehicles and space for the players to train. The dispute was eventually resolved in 2011 when a new board took over.[11]
Other training sites
[edit]Alavés have close connections with the Betoño Sports Complex (also known as El Glorioso) in the east of the city, and owned the site between 2001 and 2006.[12][13]
The club can also make use of the municipality-owned Olaranbe facilities on the south-eastern outskirts of the city which are home to CD Aurrerá de Vitoria as well as CD Vitoria,[14][15] the affiliated team of rivals SD Eibar, who previously played at Betoño.[16][17] Alavés made an unsuccessful attempt to purchase Olaranbe in 2017.[18][19]
Future developments
[edit]Since becoming owner of Alavés in 2013,[20] Josean Querejeta forged close links between the football club and his basketball team Saski Baskonia including a joint training initiative for children (5+11 Foundation).[21] He also stated his desire for Alavés to have an elite training facility, and this became a more urgent concern when the team were promoted to La Liga in 2016.[22] The proximity of the Betoño grounds to Baskonia's Fernando Buesa Arena and BAKH multi-sports centre[23] led to it being the preferred site to be developed,[24] ahead of Ibaia which has only basic facilities and is located at an isolated site on the other side of the city.
In summer 2017 an agreement in principle over the purchase of Betoño, involving an annual fee to the city until 2020 when a land purchase fee of €6 million would be paid, accompanied by a proposal for the local teams to have use of Ibaia for their matches,[25][26] appeared to have been reached in summer 2017,[19][15] but some months later this became less certain when the price of the land involved, including the former Michelin factory adjacent to the sports complex, was set at €16 million by the city council.[27][28]
References
[edit]- ^ "Instalaciones: Ciudad Deportiva "José Luis Compañón" (Ibaia)" [Facilities: José Luis Compañón Sport City (Ibaia)] (in Spanish). Deportivo Alavés. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Ciudad Deportiva José Luis Compañón (Complejo de Ibaia)" [José Luis Compañón Sport City (Ibaia Complex)] (in Spanish). Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council. Archived from the original on 12 August 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Campos de fútbol de Ibaia" [Ibaia football fields] (in Spanish). Basque Government. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Arranca el Alavés Gloriosas una apasionante campaña" [Alavés Gloriosas start an exciting campaign] (in Spanish). Deportivo Alavés. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ Asier Pérez; Jorge Muñoz (18 July 2018). "El Alavés cede Ibaia al San Ignacio para su temporada en tercera" [Alavés gives Ibaia to San Ignacio for their season in Tercera]. Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- ^ a b c "Las bases para el futuro albiazul: Los Campos de Don Juan" [The bases for the blue-and-white future: The Fields of Don Juan]. Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). 19 February 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2018 – via Goazen Deportivo.
- ^ "Muere en Madrid Juan Arregui, empresario y ex presidente del Alavés" [Juan Arregui, businessman and former president of Alavés, dies in Madrid]. El País (in Spanish). 21 April 1999. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Murió Compañón, un símbolo del club" [Compañón, a symbol of the club, has died]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 9 January 2002. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Ibaia, un año más para la cantera" [Ibaia, one more year for the quarry]. El Correo (in Spanish). 28 June 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Adiós a un pedazo de Ibaia" [Farewell to a piece of Ibaia]. El Correo (in Spanish). 27 June 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "El club recupera el Campo 3 y el aparcamiento de Ibaia" [The club recovers Pitch 3 and the car park at Ibaia]. El Correo (in Spanish). 29 July 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2018 – via Goazen Deportivo.
- ^ "El equipo volverá a entrenarse en las instalaciones de Betoño" [The team will return to train at Betoño's facilities] (in Spanish). 17 August 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2018 – via Goazen Deportivo.
- ^ "El Alavés cambia esta semana Ibaia por Betoño" [Alavés swaps Ibaia for Betoño this week]. Kirol Expres (in Spanish). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "El Aurrerá acusa al Ayuntamiento de ceder Olarambe al filial del Eibar (Gipuzkoa)" [El Aurrerá accuses the City Council of transferring Olarambe to the subsidiary of Eibar (Gipuzkoa)] (in Spanish). Kirol Expres. 22 July 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ a b "El Ayuntamiento ultima la cesión de Betoño al Alavés" [The City Council finalizes the transfer of Betoño to Alavés]. Gasteiz Hoy (in Spanish). 18 July 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "El Alavés B se salva a costa de golear al Vitoria" [Alavés B saved by thrashing Vitoria]. El Correo (in Spanish). 4 May 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ "El CD Vitoria será el filial del Eibar" [CD Vitoria will be the subsidiary of Eibar] (in Spanish). El Diario Vasco. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Betoño incendia el fútbol alavés" [Betoño inflames football in Álava]. Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). 23 July 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ a b "El Alavés impulsa su ciudad deportiva" [The Alavés promotes its sports city]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 17 June 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Querejeta compra las acciones del Alavés que tenía la familia Ortiz de Zárate" [Querejeta bought the shares in Alavés that the Ortiz de Zárate family held] (in Spanish). El Correo. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Daci 2018" (in Spanish). Fundación 5+11 Fundazioa. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "El Alavés quiere una estructura de Primera" [Alaves wants a top level structure]. Marca (in Spanish). 5 September 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Instalaciones" [Facilities] (in Spanish). Bakh. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "El Alavés negocia con el Ayuntamiento la compra de Betoño para su ciudad deportiva" [Alaves negotiates with the City Council to buy Betoño for its sports city]. Kirol Expres (in Spanish). 14 September 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "El Alavés ofrece Ibaia a los clubes convenidos que juegan en Betoño" [Alavés offers Ibaia to the partner clubs that play at Betoño]. Kirol Expres (in Spanish). 16 July 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "El Alavés desembolsará más de siete millones de euros por Betoño" [The Alavés will disburse more than seven million euros for Betoño]. Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). 17 July 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "El Ayuntamiento tasa Betoño en 16 millones y el Alavés busca ya una alternativa en Zurbano" [The City Council rate Betoño at 16 million and Alavés already looking for an alternative in Zurbano]. El Correo (in Spanish). 2 February 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "El Alavés estudia construir una ciudad deportiva fuera de Vitoria si no compra Betoño" [Alavés considers building a sports city outside Vitoria if it does not buy Betoño]. Gasteiz Hoy (in Spanish). 2 February 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.