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Valencia Is Now Seeking A Name For It’s Stadium

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Updated: December 14, 2011

The new stadium will be ready in nearly 2 years and Valencia are now looking for a sponsor for the stadium name.

The coming days will see much more development in the future of the Nou Mestalla. The priority for the team now is to find a company that will put it’s name in the stadium, negotiations for this have already started. Valencia’s new stadium will not be called the Nou Mestalla but with the name of the company that will put money on the table (similar to the Emirates Stadium of Arsenal).

Manuel Llorente has convinced the board of directors that the new stadium will raise the income level of the club and the stadium name will be key for that. Llorente’s backed up by studies made in England that say that companies sponsoring the name of a stadium will pay several million euros a year, something that the club is lacking especially with the absence of a shirt sponsor.

  • Andrés

    I wish it would just be called Nou Mestalla, but I can understand why they are looking for a sponsor. That’s a lot of money and the club isn’t at the point that they can be turning down any offers yet.

  • Los Che Jon

    I agree in that Nou Mestalla would be ideal for all Valencianistas but at the end of the day we still need to maximise our income and by selling the naming rights we can get a good deal, its sure as hell worked for Arsenal!

    At the end of the day to us all it will be Nou Mestalla 

  • jl1

    i think selling the name rights is ok except the new name was “Estadio Dubai” or “Estadio Etihad”

    • Mansouri

      Etihad would nice because the word means unity.
      Still though it should be Mestalla, always been… 

  • CF@Hong Kong

    i don’t change the name…

  • Mansouri

    Estadio Los Che

  • EsP

    I understand why people will have Nou Mestalla as the name, but personaly i don’t care much. All income is good income.

    • EsP

      For me the new stadium will be a fantastic place anyway

  • Martijn

    For once fuck the money: we should play in mestalla, period.
    I dont want a stadium with some crappy Arabic or American name because they paid more then the others, no Emirates, no Eithad, no Allianz, no Bayarena or watherver other crap they come up with. It should have proper Spanish sounding name like Nou Mestalla.
     

    • EsP

      Well, I see your point, but in the future I guess all big stadiums around the world will have sponsor names cause football-clubs cannot reject money

    • Mansouri

      dude just hope its not chinese

      • Jeeshan

        Thats a good one

      • CF@Hong Kong

        WHY?i am chinese,from hong kong…

        but i don’t want change the name… 

        • Mansouri

          Lol sorry bro i didnt mean any offense, I love chinese language but honestly if the stadium name is chinese it would sound weird…

          Lets just hope the stadium name stays Nou Mestalla. And Valencia finds a rich sponsor for Ads be it any language or country :)  
           

    • Cile

      Unless you’re Real Madrid who gets bailed out if their financial status worsens, you can’t reject sponsor money. As things are going right now, I wouldn’t be surprised to see even Barcelona having to rename Camp Nou!

      • Martijn

        Offcourse you can reject money, in fact we would be the only team in la liga with their stadium name being sponsored so its really not like we miss out on money the others have. Get a shirt sponsor if you want money!
        For me a stadium name needs to have a sentimental value to it as well, its important to fans. It has to do with the feel of a club. Things like “lets go to the “ïnsert sponsor” arena” just sound crap, it ruins part of the magic.
        I know i might sound like a snetimental old fool now (and im not even old yet) but thats just the way i feel about it. The very name Mestalla for me just feels really different then for example the telefonica arena.

        • http://www.valenciacf.com/es/ElEquipo/ Giel

          In your hear, you still know it’s Mestalla. Valencia will always play in Mestalla. But sometimes, you have to sacrifice something and we need this money, so I agree with a different name. But when I see the stadium, Mestalla will be the first thing that comes to my mind. Amunt!

          • http://www.valenciacf.com/es/ElEquipo/ Giel

            Of course I meant heart.

  • Chris VCF

    sell the naming rights to whoever, we will always know it as mestalla

  • Jafar

    It is and will always be Mestalla and for me it will stay Nou Mestalla no matter what.
    There is still no sponsor so calm down.

  • Mansouri

    Estadio Senyera 
    lol 

  • jesper

    so long the name sounds good to the club