Geli puts the capacity of the renovated Montilivi at around 20,000 spectators

2023-12-05 07:30:41

An image of the stadium stand during the match against Athletic Club
Marc Martí Font

with 13.343 people, Montilivi saw Saturday against the Valencia, the second best innings of the season. Only the 14,184 spectators that there was against Real Madrid – the best in history – they surpass it. Both against Valencia and in the last match at the stadium againstAthletic Club, the club announced that it had sold all available seats. The great moment of the team has generated that there is even more Gironamania and that watching a match in Montilivi has become a very precious leisure offer. All of this has reignited the debate about the capacity of the stadium. with 14,624 seats available after the expansion of the Gol Sud this summer, the club has been working on a project to expand and modernize Montilivi for some time. yesterday, Geli Dolphin he spoke about it on Catalunya Ràdio and he let it slip that the club’s intention is to win “between four and five thousand more localities”.

Geli recognized that Montilivi has “many shortcomings” and that it is necessary to think. “We have a clear desire to have a stadium worthy of Primera”, he exclaimed while adding that “for many years nothing has been done and now we are paying the consequences”. The president added that “We have been given a precarious stadium to be in Primera. We have invested a lot of money in it, more than people think, so that it is in condition. There are so many improvements that need to be made that we don’t have time.” It should be remembered that in November 2018, the Girona City Council gave the green light to the concession of the stadium for fifty years to the club. Five years later Geli considers that it is time “to stop” and think “where you want to go” with a “project” and a “significant investment”. In this sense, Geli spoke of “conditions” in addition to capacity. However, he also dared to say a number of the capacity that the new, or modernized, Girona stadium should have. “Four or five thousand more localities”. In other words, a capacity close to 20,000 spectators “to be able to have much more social mass”.