A concert tribute to Nino Bravo The Roig Arena will open this Saturday in Valenciaa multipurpose enclosure driven by businessman Juan Roig with an investment of 400 million that has its origin in the growth of Valencia Basket and that is prepared to host the greatest quotes of any sport to be covered.
The installation has a capacity of 15,600 spectators for basketball matches and similar sports and 18,600 for concerts. In addition to the matches of the Valencian club, which will start on October 2 with a match of their male team against Virtus in the Euroleague, it already has a first major event on its agenda.
This is the Basketball King's Cup of the 2026 and 2027one of the great annual events of Spanish sport and is considered one of the most attractive tournaments of European sport.
The origin of the project
Juan Roig is the top shareholder of Valencia Basket and, when in the 2016-17 season he first won the Endesa League, he saw that Fonteta, the veteran municipal pavilion that has welcomed him almost four decades, He decided to take the definitive step for the construction of what is already the new house of the club 'Taronja'. He did it through the company Licampa 1617, a nod to that great success.
“The origin, the seed, of this great project, is Valencia Basket“The general director of the Roig Arena VÃctor Sendra said this week.” The milestone that triggers this project is the 2016-17 season, when Valencia wins the League. There this begins to walk, “he admitted.
One million viewers a year
The infrastructure, which He hopes to have more than a million viewers during his first coursehas already scheduled eighty concerts and seventy corporate events, but Sendra highlighted the preferential role that basketball will have.
“Valencia Basket has absolute priority, maximum. There is no possibility that I cannot play, but we are children of the same father, we are brothers and collaborate. Valencia and Roig Arena go hand in hand, “he said.
Of course, coexistence will force having an agile process of assembly and disassembly of scenarios and the track in which operators have been rehearsed weeks. “Honestly, we have to run,” Sendra admitted. The idea is that after the concerts that end at night, the track is again mounted at 9 in the morning the next day.
Euroleague and subscriber record
One of Roig's great satisfactions is that in the premiere season, Both the male and female team, in addition to the Endesa League and the Women's League, are going to dispute the Euroleaguethe main continental basketball competition.
That perspective and to release their new house have driven the growth of the club's subscribers, in the case of the male will be 10,800 and in the female 3,700, although next week a new period of five days of sale of fertilizers will open. In the last campaigns the club had to limit the joint payment that allowed the two teams to be seen to 7,500 members, since the maximum capacity of the Fonteta was 8,000.
Attendees of basketball and seventy corporate events already planned, the spectators expect to have the Roig Arena in their first year of life, a figure in which a figure in which The concerts will contribute about 600,000 tickets.
In the 'Music Mode', it can house up to 18,600 people with the stage in a background and up to 20,000 if it is in the center of the track And there is also an auditorium with capacity for two thousand spectators.
The initial idea of ​​a new house for Valencia Basket, which has its offices, store, museum and a second track to train in the enclosurehe grew to become one of the most modern multi -purpose enclosures in the world. Only in the building and at its start the investment is 365 million.
400 million project
The global project, which grows to 400 million investmentincludes a height parking lot with more than a thousand places which opened a year ago with a cost of 20 million, the construction of the Les Arts public school, which was projected on the plot in which the sand rises and has cost 8 million, and a huge park outside the enclosure that 'unites it' with La Fonteta and with L'Alqueria del Basket, the club's quarry installation in which Roig invested 21 million in 2017.
After Roig's proposal, the City Council declared the general interest project in 2018 and in 2020 he took him to public tender. The award to Licampa 1617 was made with a assignment of the plot for 50 years extendable for 25 more. Then, the installation could become municipal. The Roig Arena will pay an update canon of about two hundred thousand euros annually to the Consistory.
Delay and improvement of qualities
EThe initial project had a budget of 220 million and it was planned to finish it in 2023. In fact, its opening already had a great planned sporting event, the World Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup, which was finally played at Feria Valencia.
The Covid19 pandemic, the Ukraine War and the inflationary crises were raising the budgetbut so have made the improvements that have been made in the project especially in soundproofing, technology and finishes.
The Roig Arena has 1,700 square meters of LED screens. They include an outer 'eye', a large ten meters high and 50 wide screen; A cube -shaped videomarker with two 18 -square -meter screens with a huge resolution and that eight engines allow you to lower track in three minutes; a large screen 75 meters long by 6.75 high on the front; and a 'ribbon' of 210 square meters that surrounds the stands.
