Valencia FC

Valencia Football Club

On 17 February 1929, Valencia FC (Valencia Club de Fútbol known as los Che) played in the Spanish Football league at Mestalla stadium in the center of Valencia. Mestalla stadium opened on 20 May 1923 and at the moment is still home to Valencia Football Club.

The move to the new 75,000-seater Nou Mestalla stadium in the barrio of Benicalap (which is approximately three miles west of the center of Valencia) was predicted to be in May 2009 and then for the new season 2010/2011.

Unfortunately, the club appears to be in financial crisis and work on the new stadium has stopped. Nobody seems to know when the stadium will be finished.

Valencia is the third top Spanish football team behind Real Madrid who are in second place and FC Barcelona who are top of the league.

The current national top scorer of the club is David Villa Sánchez (nicknamed El Guaje). Villa joined los Che (nickname of the team) in June 2005 for a transfer fee of €12 million.

From 2005-2006 Villa was the second top scorer in La Liga with 25 goals and is also third top scorer of all time in Spanish Football.

Florentino Perez (president of Real Madrid) is interested in buying David Villa, however, Manuel Llorente (new Valencia president) said Real Madrid will not sign star player David Villa.

Custom Search

Return from Valencia FC to Valencia Homepage