Valencia Fc Marks Mestalla's 1,500th LaLiga Game Against Atlético de Madrid
valencia fc will play its 1,500th LaLiga match at Mestalla against Atlético de Madrid, a milestone that lands at the club’s oldest home and the top-flight venue with more games than any other. The match adds another marker to a stadium that has carried Valencia through nearly a century of league football while the club moves toward 2027.
Mestalla and Atlético de Madrid
Atlético is one of Mestalla’s most regular visitors, alongside Madrid, Barça and Athletic. That makes the milestone feel less like a ceremonial one-off and more like another entry in a ground that has seen Valencia’s biggest domestic nights unfold against the league’s familiar heavyweights.
The setting also carries a clear clock. Valencia are expected to leave Mestalla in 2027 before the Nuevo Mestalla opens, so this 1,500th Primera match arrives while the club is still writing the final chapters of its long stay there.
1931 to the 2027 move
Mestalla’s first top-flight fixture came on 29 November 1931 against Real Unión, and Valencia won 5-1 with Juan Costa scoring a hat-trick. That first night set the tone for what followed: a venue that became central to the club’s league history and later hosted title-defining moments across generations.
Valencia lifted the league in the 40s with Mundo Suárez as the national top scorer, then saw Forment’s decisive strike against Celta seal the 1971 title. In the 80s, Tendillo’s goal against Madrid kept the team up, while later years added goals from Fernando and Baraja to the ground’s record.
Valencia's Mestalla record
The scale of the milestone comes from the numbers around it. Mestalla is the oldest ground in the top flight and the venue with more top-flight games than any other, and Valencia’s crowd has long given it some of Spain’s strongest attendances.
That combination explains why this 1,500th league match matters inside the club’s own timeline. It lands before the move to the Nuevo Mestalla, turning a routine league fixture against Atlético into a count toward the final stretch of a stadium era that started on 29 November 1931 and now heads toward 2027.
