Buy Alaves tickets for the 2026/27 La Liga season and you are buying into one of the tightest supply situations in the Spanish top flight. Mendizorrotza holds 19,840 people, which makes it among the smallest grounds in the division, and Deportivo Alaves sell most of that to season pass holders before a single match ticket reaches general sale. The club released just 125 new season passes for this campaign, a figure that tells you everything about how much room is left for everyone else.
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On the pitch, Quique Sanchez Flores begins his first full season in charge after taking over in March 2026 with the club sixteenth and steering them to a fourteenth-place finish on 43 points. That was survival by the narrowest of margins in a season where four clubs finished within a point of the drop. Alaves also beat Barcelona 1-0 at Mendizorrotza in May, which is the kind of afternoon that explains why supporters keep filling a ground this size.
What follows covers what a seat in Vitoria-Gasteiz actually costs, how the abono system decides who gets in, which stand suits which kind of supporter and which fixtures on the calendar are gone within hours. Every league fixture, home and away, has its own page linked at the foot of this one.
Alaves do not operate a socio membership in the way Barcelona or Real Madrid do. There is no annual subscription that grants voting rights and priority access; the season pass, the abono, is effectively the only formal relationship a supporter can have with the club. That makes the ticketing picture simpler to understand and considerably harder to work with from outside the Basque Country.
The consequence is a small public allocation released three to four weeks before a match, which is far too late for anyone planning international travel. A supporter booking flights to Bilbao or Vitoria in November for a March fixture is committing months before the club opens sales, and by the time the window arrives the higher-profile dates have already been absorbed by pass holders and the local waiting list.
The secondary market reverses that order. Seats released by pass holders who cannot attend reach the open market, so you secure the seat first and build the trip around it. Because those releases come from individuals rather than a club-held block, they appear across all four stands rather than in whichever corner happens to be left over, which matters a great deal in a ground where the difference between stands is unusually pronounced.
1BoxOffice has operated as a verified secondary marketplace since 2006, covering close to two decades of Spanish football including the seasons Alaves have spent moving between the top two divisions. Orders are checked rather than merely listed, sellers are vetted before inventory goes live and delivery is tracked from confirmation through to matchday.
Sellers set their own prices, which can sit above or below face value depending on the fixture, the stand and how close kick-off is. What stays constant is the protection attached to the order, which carries more weight when you are buying into a 19,840-seat ground where availability can disappear in a single afternoon.
Demand at Alaves works differently to demand at a club with a 60,000-seat stadium. The pressures are smaller in absolute terms but they bite harder, because the denominator is so much lower. A fixture that would barely register at the Bernabeu can close out Mendizorrotza entirely.
The drivers below combine differently depending on the opponent and the point in the season. A midweek fixture against a promoted side in October behaves nothing like a Saturday evening Basque derby in February.
Read together, these explain a market where planning ahead genuinely pays. Unlike at the largest clubs, where a late listing will usually appear at some price, a sold-out Mendizorrotza can mean no listings at all rather than expensive ones.
Pricing at Mendizorrotza sits at the accessible end of La Liga for most fixtures and then spikes hard for a handful. Face value through club channels has typically run in the region of 30 to 75 euros for a league match, which is well below what the same category of seat costs in Madrid or Barcelona. The resale market broadly tracks that, with the exception of the four or five fixtures a season that everybody wants.
Stand matters less here than at a larger ground because there is no upper tier to be stranded in, but it still matters. The Tribuna along the main side carries the cleanest sightlines and the highest prices, the Preferencia opposite is a close second, and the Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur behind the goals sit lower on both counts. Corner sections, added when the ground was expanded in the late 1990s, fill the gaps at intermediate prices.
Timing behaves differently to the big clubs too. Because supply is genuinely finite rather than merely constrained, prices for a Basque derby or a visit from Barcelona harden early and stay hard, and waiting rarely produces a bargain. For a mid-table fixture in autumn, by contrast, there is usually room to be patient. The ranges below reflect typical resale pricing rather than face value.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| La Liga (standard fixtures) | £35 – £130 |
| La Liga (Basque derbies) | £80 – £320+ |
| La Liga (Barcelona and Real Madrid) | £95 – £400+ |
| Copa del Rey (early rounds) | £20 – £70 |
| Copa del Rey (later rounds) | £45 – £180 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £150 – £700+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes, and the answer is simpler here than at most Spanish clubs because Alaves do not run a membership scheme at all. There is no annual socio subscription conferring voting rights or priority windows. The season pass is the only formal supporter status the club offers, and everything else is general sale.
That sounds welcoming and in practice is not, because the season pass base absorbs the great majority of a 19,840-seat ground. Renewals run in June, seat changes and sympathiser cards follow immediately afterwards, and only then does the club work through the waiting list. For 2026/27 that process produced 125 new passes, which gives a sense of how slowly the base turns over. Pass holders receive better than 40 per cent off box office prices along with priority on away allocations, so there is little incentive to let one go.
For a visiting supporter the practical route in is the open market. Seats released by pass holders reach resale, which sidesteps the waiting list entirely and removes the need for a Spanish address, a local payment method or a trip timed around a club sales window that opens three weeks before kick-off.
In a city of roughly a quarter of a million people, a season pass at Mendizorrotza is a household fixture rather than a discretionary purchase. Holders keep the same seat for decades and pass it within families, and the renewal window in June is treated as a formality rather than a decision. That stability is why a club outside the wealthiest tier of Spanish football can fill its ground week after week regardless of league position.
The economics work because the pass is priced to be affordable. A holder saves more than 40 per cent against buying each match individually, gets 10 per cent off club merchandise and moves to the front of the queue for away tickets. Set against nineteen home league fixtures plus cup football, the annual outlay works out at a fraction of what an equivalent pass costs in Madrid or Catalonia.
| Season Pass Area | Typical Annual Range (GBP) | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur | £180 – £300 | Behind the goals, the most affordable route into the pass system and the loudest part of the ground |
| Corner sections | £250 – £380 | Angled views added when the ground was expanded, a middle ground on price and position |
| Preferencia | £330 – £500 | The side opposite the dugouts, with a clean view across the pitch |
| Tribuna, outer blocks | £420 – £620 | Main stand away from the halfway line, covered and closer to the tunnel end |
| Tribuna, central blocks | £560 – £850+ | Halfway-line seating on the main side, the most sought-after positions in the stadium |
Ranges are indicative and may change from season to season depending on the club's pricing structure.
The great advantage of a ground this size is that there are no bad seats in the sense that larger stadiums produce them. Nothing is 90 metres from the pitch and there is no upper tier to climb. The differences between areas are about atmosphere, cover and angle rather than about whether you can see.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fondo Sur | Atmosphere and singing | Lower | Home of the club's organised support and the section that sets the noise level for the ground. Standing, flags and continuous chanting, particularly for derbies. |
| Fondo Norte | Value behind the goal | Lower | The opposite end, quieter than the south with a straight-on view of one penalty area. Also where the visiting allocation is normally housed. |
| Tribuna, central blocks | Clean view of the game | Upper | Main stand at the halfway line, covered and closest to the benches. The clearest read of the match and priced accordingly. |
| Tribuna, outer blocks | Cover at a lower price | Mid to upper | Same stand, further towards the corners. Retains the roof and the side-on angle at a meaningful saving on the central blocks. |
| Preferencia | Side-on view at mid price | Mid | Opposite the dugouts with an unobstructed view across the pitch. Popular with regulars who want the angle without the Tribuna premium. |
| Corner sections | Balancing price against view | Mid | Added during the late-1990s expansion, filling the angles between the ends and the sides. Often the last seats left for a sold-out fixture. |
Away travel is a substantial part of the Alaves calendar because the Basque Country and Navarre put three away fixtures within easy reach. San Mames, the Reale Arena and El Sadar are all under two hours by road from Vitoria-Gasteiz, and the club's travelling support turns out in numbers for all three. Season pass holders receive priority on away allocations, which is one of the main reasons people hold a pass.
| Away Matchday Factor | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Standard allocation | La Liga grounds generally set aside around 5 per cent of capacity for visiting supporters, though the figure varies by venue and by the risk classification attached to the fixture. |
| Typical location | Upper corner or upper goal end, segregated with a separate entrance and concourse. At the largest grounds that can mean a considerable climb from the turnstile to the seat. |
| Access requirements | Allocations are distributed through the club, with season pass holders served first. Photo identification matching the ticket is commonly requested at the turnstile for fixtures classified as high risk. |
| Home-section listings | Many away-day supporters end up in home areas. That is workable at a quieter ground and a poor idea at San Mames or the Reale Arena, where visible away colours in a home block invite relocation. |
| Transport and timing | Spanish kick-offs run late, with 9pm starts common at weekends. Vitoria-Gasteiz has good road and rail links to Bilbao and Madrid, but a finish after 10.45pm rules out same-night onward travel from many cities. |
Treat each away fixture as its own piece of planning. Confirm the kick-off slot before booking travel, check which block a listing sits in and dress neutrally if you end up outside the designated visiting section.
Because Mendizorrotza is compact, the choice here is less about compromise than at a bigger ground and more about what kind of ninety minutes you want. A supporter travelling for the noise of a derby has different requirements from a family visiting Vitoria-Gasteiz for a weekend. The table below maps the common priorities.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Fondo Sur | Where the organised support gathers, with drums, banners and singing that carries across a ground small enough to amplify it. Expect to stand throughout. |
| View of the game | Tribuna, central blocks | Halfway line on the main side, under cover and close to the benches. In a single-tier ground this is as good a vantage point as Spanish football offers at this price level. |
| Families and first visits | Preferencia or the outer Tribuna | Seated throughout, calmer than the ends and with straightforward access to concourses. Sightlines remain strong given how close every stand sits to the pitch. |
| Premium experience | Tribuna hospitality areas | Central positioning with catering and dedicated access. Modest by the standards of the wealthiest clubs and priced far below equivalent packages elsewhere in the division. |
| Lower-priced entry | Fondo Norte | The most affordable seats in the ground with a full view of the pitch from behind the goal. In a stadium this size, the distance penalty is minimal. |
Mendizorrotza opened on 27 April 1924, the day before Saint Prudence's Day, the feast of the patron saint of Alava. It has been in continuous use ever since, which makes it among the oldest venues still hosting professional football in Spain and older than the great majority of grounds in Europe's major leagues. Very few clubs can say their supporters have watched from the same site for more than a century.
The ground has been altered rather than rebuilt. The most significant work came in 1998 and 1999, when new stands were added in the corners to link the four existing sides and lift capacity to the present 19,840. That expansion arrived just as the club reached the top flight for the first time in decades, and it produced the enclosed bowl that supporters know today. Further detail on the current layout and matchday arrangements is set out on the Mendizorrotza stadium page.
The stadium is a single-tier ground with four stands: the Tribuna on the main side, the Preferencia opposite and then the Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur behind each goal, with the corner sections filling the angles between them. The absence of an upper deck is the defining characteristic, because it means every seat in the ground sits within a few dozen metres of the touchline. Sound stays inside the bowl rather than dissipating upward, which is why a crowd of under 20,000 can feel considerably larger than the number suggests.
Expansion has been discussed for a decade without arriving. In December 2016 the club presented a modernisation plan that would have taken capacity towards 28,000, and in June 2020 it confirmed the project was being delayed by at least a year on economic grounds. For supporters planning a visit in 2026/27, the practical position is unchanged: this remains a 19,840-seat ground and demand is measured against that number.
Getting there is the easiest journey of any La Liga ground. The stadium sits roughly a kilometre from the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca in the city centre, a walk of ten to fifteen minutes through pleasant streets, and city bus routes 2, 3 and 8 serve the area for anyone who would rather not walk. Stadium parking is limited and the public car parks in the centre are the better option. Vitoria-Gasteiz connects by rail and road to Bilbao in about an hour and to Madrid in around four.
The pre-match routine here is genuinely one of the pleasures of the fixture. Supporters gather in the Casco Viejo, the medieval quarter, for poteo, which means moving between bars sampling pintxos and glasses of Rioja Alavesa rather than settling in one place for the afternoon. Idiazabal cheese, local txakoli and the produce of the surrounding wine country make this a better food city than its size implies, and the walk from the old town to the ground takes a quarter of an hour.
On matchday the ground opens well before kick-off and the compact layout means queues clear quickly compared with larger stadiums. Seats are allocated by block, and because the four stands differ noticeably in cover and angle it is worth checking exactly where a listing sits against the Mendizorrotza seating plan before you buy rather than after.
Hospitality at Alaves is a modest operation compared with the packages sold at the wealthiest clubs in the division, and that is reflected in the price. What is on offer centres on the Tribuna, where the club has built out lounge and catering space, and the appeal is as much the setting as the scale of the offering.
For a visiting supporter the practical value is different from what it is at a large club. Here hospitality is not primarily a route past a closed general sale; it is a way of turning a match into a longer afternoon in a city worth spending time in. The ranges below reflect typical resale pricing rather than a fixed schedule.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Premium seating | Central Tribuna seat with a dedicated entrance and access to a shared lounge before the match and at half time. | £150 – £280 |
| Lounge package | Central seating plus catering, a bar and a longer lounge window either side of kick-off. | £250 – £450 |
| Dining package | Seated dining before the match, halfway-line seating and post-match lounge access. | £400 – £700 |
| Group and corporate | Blocks of premium seats with catering arranged for a party, suited to company entertaining or a group trip. | £900 – £3,000+ per group |
| Derby and marquee fixtures | Any of the above applied to a Basque derby or a visit from Barcelona or Real Madrid, where demand raises the rate sharply. | £350 – £1,200+ |
Availability is genuinely limited given the size of the ground, so for a specific date it is worth looking several months ahead rather than in the final weeks.
Buying through a marketplace is simple once you know what each stage is doing. The sequence below runs through a complete purchase, from finding the fixture to the ticket arriving, with the checks worth making at each point.
Step1
Find your fixture
Start from the fixture lists at the foot of this page and open the match you want. Each fixture has its own page with live listings, so you are always looking at availability for that specific date rather than a general pool.
Step2
Set up your account
Browsing needs no sign-in, but completing a purchase and following the order afterwards does. It takes under a minute to create an account, and having one ready before a derby goes on sale matters more here than at a club with 60,000 seats to sell.
Step3
Filter by stand and budget
Narrow listings by area of the ground and by price before comparing anything else. If noise is the priority, work towards the Fondo Sur. If you want cover and the cleanest angle, aim for the central Tribuna instead.
Step4
Read the listing notes carefully
The notes carry the detail that decides whether a seat suits you: whether tickets are sold in pairs, whether seats are together, which block they sit in and how they will be delivered. Cover matters in Vitoria in midwinter, so check whether your block sits under the roof.
Step5
Check the quantity before you commit
Groups should confirm the listing holds enough seats together rather than assuming adjacency. In a ground where individual pass holders release single seats, split parties are a common outcome and worth heading off at this stage.
Step6
Complete secure checkout
Payment runs through a secure gateway and the total shown at checkout is what you pay. Confirm the fixture date and kick-off time on the confirmation screen, which matters in Spain where slots are set only a few weeks ahead.
Step7
Receive your order confirmation
A confirmation email arrives immediately with your order reference and the expected delivery method. Keep the reference somewhere you can find it, because it is the fastest route to support if the fixture is rescheduled.
Step8
Follow delivery through to matchday
Use the track order page to monitor progress from confirmation to delivery. Spanish clubs commonly issue tickets close to the match, so a quiet tracker a fortnight out is normal rather than a warning sign.
Followed in order, those eight stages are unremarkable, which is the point. The work belongs at the listing stage, where reading the notes properly prevents almost every problem that arises later.
Home dates at Mendizorrotza do not behave uniformly. Some Alaves tickets sit available for weeks while others are gone the day they appear, and in a ground this size the difference between the two is starker than at a large club. Knowing which category applies tells you how far ahead to commit.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Athletic Club at home | The closest thing Alaves have to a derby of equals, with Bilbao under an hour away and a travelling support that fills its allocation immediately. Home sections follow within hours and the atmosphere is the loudest of the season. |
| Real Sociedad at home | The other Basque fixture, carrying the same regional edge with the added history of Real Sociedad knocking Alaves out of the Copa del Rey at the quarter-final stage in February 2026. Local interest alone can close this one out. |
| Barcelona and Real Madrid | Two dates a season that attract national and international demand rather than local. Alaves beat Barcelona 1-0 at Mendizorrotza in May 2026, which has done nothing to reduce interest in the return fixture. |
| Relegation six-pointers | Alaves have finished within a handful of points of the drop in each of their recent top-flight seasons. Fixtures against the clubs immediately around them carry a weight that the league table alone does not convey. |
| Season opener and final home match | The first home fixture under a manager beginning his first full season draws a curious crowd, and the last home match of the campaign frequently carries something concrete at stake given how tightly Alaves finish. |
Delivery depends on the seller and on how the club issued that particular ticket. Spanish clubs have moved steadily towards digital issuance, and most orders now arrive electronically rather than on paper.
Read the delivery method in the listing notes before buying. If you are arriving in Vitoria on the morning of the match, a listing offering postal delivery to a home address is the wrong purchase whatever the price.
Gates open well before kick-off and, because the ground is small and the walk from the centre is short, queues clear faster than at most La Liga venues. Thirty to forty-five minutes ahead is enough for a routine league fixture, though a derby merits an hour to take in the build-up properly. The walk from the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca takes ten to fifteen minutes, which makes it easy to eat in the old town and still arrive in good time.
Bring photo identification that matches the name on your booking. Spanish clubs request it more frequently than English ones, particularly for fixtures classified as high risk and where a ticket originates from a season pass holder's release. Load digital tickets before you reach the turnstile and make sure your phone has charge, because signal around the ground degrades when several thousand people arrive at once.
Bag rules follow the standard Spanish top-flight pattern and there is no cloakroom, so anything refused at the gate has to go back with you. Large bags and rucksacks are turned away, as are glass containers, flares, smoke devices, selfie sticks, poles and professional cameras with detachable lenses. Vitoria in midwinter is genuinely cold, so dress for it rather than planning to carry extra layers in a bag.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Deportivo Alaves, S.A.D. |
| Founded | 23 January 1921, originally as Sport Friends Club |
| Nicknames | El Glorioso, Babazorros, Albiazules |
| Stadium | Mendizorrotza, Vitoria-Gasteiz, opened April 1924, capacity 19,840 |
| Head coach | Quique Sanchez Flores, appointed in March 2026 and beginning his first full season |
| Leading scorer, 2025/26 | Toni Martinez, 18 goals in all competitions |
| President | Alfonso Fernandez de Troconiz |
| League | La Liga, 20 clubs, 38 matches |
| Region | Alava, Basque Country |
Alaves have spent most of their existence outside Spain's top division, and that context is what makes the seasons they have spent inside it so heavily commemorated in Vitoria. This is a club whose greatest achievement came in its first European campaign and whose supporters measure a good year in survival rather than silverware. Understanding that changes how a visit to Mendizorrotza feels.
The early decades established a pattern that would repeat for most of a century. Alaves would build a competitive side, win promotion, spend a season or two among the elite and then return to the second tier. What did not change was the ground and the supporter base in a city that has never had a second professional club to divide its loyalties. The Copa Federacion win in 1946 remains one of only a handful of occasions the club has finished a national competition ahead of everyone else.
This is the least glamorous stretch of the club's history and the one that explains the intensity of what followed. Alaves spent the 1970s and 1980s well outside the national conversation, at times three divisions below the top, and the recovery that began in the early 1990s was built division by division rather than through a single windfall. When the 1997/98 Segunda title finally delivered promotion, it ended an absence from La Liga stretching back to the mid-1950s, and Mendizorrotza was expanded to meet the moment.
The sixth-place finish in 1999/2000 under Jose Manuel Esnal was extraordinary for a newly promoted club from a city of that size, and it earned a UEFA Cup place nobody in Vitoria expected to use for long. What happened next is the single reference point in the club's history. Alaves reached the final in Dortmund and produced one of the most-discussed matches the competition has staged, twice recovering from two goals down against Liverpool, drawing level at 4-4 and losing only when Delfi Geli headed into his own net in extra time under the golden goal rule then in force. Javi Moreno, Jordi Cruyff, Cosmin Contra and Martin Herrera became permanent fixtures in the club's memory that night.
The most recent two decades have carried the club from the third tier back to a Copa del Rey final and into the most sustained top-flight run in its history. The 2017 final against Barcelona was a second national showpiece within sixteen years, and the six-year stay in La Liga from 2016 to 2022 was the longest the club has managed. Since returning in 2023 the pattern has been consistent: finish in the lower half, survive by a margin that looks uncomfortable on paper and start again. Alaves have now put together four consecutive seasons in the top flight for only the second time.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Javi Moreno | Forward, 2000 to 2001 | Spent a single season at the club and became its most celebrated player. Scored twice in the UEFA Cup final in Dortmund and carried the attack through a campaign that took a newly established top-flight side to a European final. | 22 La Liga goals in 2000/01 |
| Jose Manuel Esnal | Head coach, 1998 to 2001 | Known throughout Spanish football as Mane, he took Alaves from promotion to sixth place and then to a European final. His side was organised, direct and famously difficult to break down, and no coach in the club's history is more closely identified with it. | Sixth in La Liga in 1999/2000 and the 2001 UEFA Cup final |
| Jordi Cruyff | Midfielder, 2000 to 2003 | Arrived from Manchester United and provided the technical quality around which the European run was built. Scored the goal that brought Alaves level at 4-4 in the final, the moment most supporters reach for first when the night is discussed. | Scorer in the 2001 UEFA Cup final |
| Cosmin Contra | Defender, 1999 to 2001 | An attacking full-back who gave the side its width during the European campaign and moved to Milan on the back of it. Part of the defensive unit that made the 1999/2000 season possible. | Sixth-place finish and the run to Dortmund |
| Martin Herrera | Goalkeeper, 1999 to 2001 | Kept goal through the finest two seasons the club has had, including the European run. In a side that conceded readily in the final, his work across the earlier rounds is what got Alaves there. | Ever-present through the 2000/01 European campaign |
| Ibon Begona | Defender, 1990s | A local figure from the years when Alaves climbed back through the divisions, and a symbol of the rebuilding that made everything after 1998 possible. Regularly named among the club's historic figures by supporters and by the league. | Part of the side that returned Alaves to the top flight |
Alaves are not a club with a deep trophy record, and their supporters would tell you the two runner-up medals matter more than most of the titles listed below. The counts here have been cross-referenced against club publications and independent football records.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Segunda Division | 4, in 1929/30, 1953/54, 1997/98 and 2015/16 |
| Segunda Division B | 4, in 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95 and 2012/13 |
| Tercera Division | 6, most recently in 1989/90 |
| Copa Federacion de Espana | 1, in 1945/46 |
| Segunda Division promotion play-offs | 1, in 2023 |
| Regional championships | 2, Biscay in 1929/30 and Gipuzkoa in 1938/39 |
| UEFA Cup | Runners-up in 2000/01 |
| Copa del Rey | Runners-up in 2016/17 |
The 2001 UEFA Cup final and the 2017 Copa del Rey final remain the two occasions on which Alaves have played for a major trophy. Both were lost, and both are commemorated in Vitoria more warmly than most clubs commemorate wins.
Alaves sit in a region where football rivalries are drawn along lines of language, province and history rather than simple proximity. The club's position within that map is particular: smaller than its neighbours, from the province with the least footballing weight and consequently carrying something to prove in every regional fixture.
The most keenly anticipated fixture of the Alaves season. Bilbao is under an hour away, Athletic are the dominant institution in Basque football and the imbalance between the two clubs is precisely what gives the fixture its edge in Vitoria. Athletic bring a large travelling support that fills its allocation the moment it opens, and Mendizorrotza is at its loudest for this match. For a supporter choosing one home fixture to attend, this is the one that best captures what the ground is like when it is fully engaged.
The other Basque derby, and one that carries a fresher grievance after Real Sociedad eliminated Alaves from the Copa del Rey at the quarter-final stage in February 2026, winning 3-2. San Sebastian is a little over an hour from Vitoria, the two clubs meet regularly in both league and cup, and the fixture has a habit of producing tight, ill-tempered matches. Local interest alone is usually enough to close out the home sections.
Pamplona is an hour and a half away and the Navarrese club occupies a similar place in Spanish football to Alaves: a provincial side operating on a smaller budget than the giants and defined by an intense home ground. Fixtures between the two are frequently scrappy and frequently decisive in the lower half of the table, which is where both clubs have spent much of the recent past. Supporters treat these as points dropped or gained rather than as occasions.
An unusual entry on a list like this, because the two clubs have met competitively only once. That once was the 2001 UEFA Cup final in Dortmund, a 5-4 defeat after extra time that is still discussed in Vitoria as an injustice and in Liverpool as one of the great finals. The golden goal rule that decided it was abolished shortly afterwards, which has done nothing to soften how the result is remembered by Alaves supporters who were there.
The quarter-final of the 2000/01 UEFA Cup produced the result that made the rest of the run believable. Alaves went 3-1 down at home to Inter, recovered to draw 3-3 and then won the return leg in Milan, eliminating one of the most decorated clubs in European football in their own stadium. It remains the most cited night of that campaign in Vitoria, ahead even of the nine goals put past Kaiserslautern in the semi-final.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | The end of a six-year stay in La Liga. Alaves managed 31 points from 38 matches, winning eight and losing 23, with a goal difference of minus 34 that reflected a season of heavy defeats. The away record was the worst in the division. Joselu was the leading scorer with 14 goals across all competitions, which was not close to enough, and relegation to Segunda Division followed alongside Levante and Granada. |
| 2022/23 | A single season in the second tier that ended in promotion. Alaves finished fourth on 71 points from 42 matches, winning 19 and losing only nine, then came through the play-offs by beating Eibar in the semi-final and going through against Levante in a final that finished level across two legs. Luis Garcia managed throughout, and Luis Rioja led the scoring with 10 league goals. Real Madrid ended the Copa del Rey run in the last sixteen. |
| 2023/24 | A comfortable return to the top flight. Alaves finished tenth on 46 points, built almost entirely on home form of nine wins from nineteen against a return of three wins on the road. Samu Omorodion, on loan from Atletico Madrid, top-scored with eight league goals, and the club reached the last sixteen of the Copa del Rey. Average home attendance was 17,391, close to capacity for a 19,840-seat ground. |
| 2024/25 | A tighter campaign under Luis Garcia Plaza that ended in thirteenth on 42 points, with ten wins, twelve draws and sixteen defeats. Kike Garcia was the leading scorer with 15 goals in all competitions. The summer had brought in Asier Villalibre from Athletic Club along with Luka Romero and Joan Jordan, while Luis Rioja left for Valencia and Javi Lopez for Real Sociedad. |
| 2025/26 | The most eventful of the five. Eduardo Coudet was dismissed in March 2026 with the club sixteenth, and Quique Sanchez Flores took over and delivered survival, finishing fourteenth on 43 points from eleven wins, ten draws and seventeen defeats. Alaves reached the Copa del Rey quarter-finals before losing 3-2 to Real Sociedad in February. Toni Martinez scored 18 goals in all competitions, and a 1-0 win over Barcelona at Mendizorrotza in May was the highlight of the campaign. |
Sanchez Flores begins his first full season with a squad built around the group that survived in May. Toni Martinez, whose 18 goals were the difference between staying up and going down, remains the focal point of the attack, with Lucas Boye alongside him and Antonio Blanco the most valuable player in the squad on paper. Antonio Sivera continues in goal, where he has been the first choice across the club's recent top-flight seasons.
Market values below are approximate and drawn from publicly available valuation data converted to sterling. At a club operating on this budget the figures serve mainly as a reminder of the gap Alaves close every time they beat a side from the top half.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antonio Sivera | Goalkeeper | 5.2m |
| 2 | Facundo Garces | Centre-back | 0.9m |
| 3 | Youssef Enriquez | Defender | 3.4m |
| 14 | Nahuel Tenaglia | Right-back | 2.6m |
| 17 | Jonny Otto | Left-back | 1.9m |
| 24 | Moussa Diarra | Defender | 1.7m |
| 4 | Denis Suarez | Midfielder | 0.9m |
| 6 | Ander Guevara | Midfielder | 2.2m |
| 8 | Antonio Blanco | Midfielder | 8.6m |
| 10 | Carles Alena | Midfielder | 2.6m |
| 19 | Pablo Ibanez | Midfielder | 3.4m |
| 23 | Carlos Protesoni | Midfielder | 0.9m |
| 7 | Angel Perez Hidalgo | Forward | 2.6m |
| 9 | Mariano Diaz | Forward | 0.3m |
| 11 | Toni Martinez | Forward | 6.5m |
| 15 | Lucas Boye | Forward | 4.3m |
| 21 | Abde Rebbach | Forward | 2.2m |
Also in the first-team group are Jesus Owono, Adrian Rodriguez, Hugo Novoa, Nicolas Valentini, Ville Koski, Mikel Rodriguez, Miguel Rodriguez, Aitor Manas and Lander Pinillos, with several academy players training alongside the senior squad.
No. Alaves do not operate a membership scheme at all, and the season pass is the only formal supporter status the club offers. Buying through a verified marketplace gives you access to seats released by pass holders without joining a waiting list.
The Fondo Sur, where the organised support gathers behind the goal with drums and banners. Because the ground is single-tier and enclosed, the noise carries far more effectively than the capacity would suggest. For a seated view under cover, the central Tribuna is the better choice.
The ground holds 19,840 and most of that is committed to season pass holders, so the pool reaching open sale is small to begin with. A routine league fixture stays affordable, while a Basque derby or a visit from Barcelona or Real Madrid can multiply the price several times over.
It is roughly a kilometre from the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, which is a walk of ten to fifteen minutes. City bus routes 2, 3 and 8 serve the area for anyone who would rather ride, and parking at the ground itself is limited enough that the central car parks are the better option.
Reaching the 2001 UEFA Cup final in Dortmund in the club's first European campaign, having finished sixth in La Liga the previous season. Alaves lost 5-4 to Liverpool after extra time on a golden goal own goal, in a match widely regarded as one of the finest finals the competition has produced.
A century-old ground, a crowd of under 20,000 packed tight against the pitch and a city worth a weekend in its own right make Mendizorrotza one of the more rewarding away days in Spanish football. 1BoxOffice has been a verified marketplace for live event tickets since 2006, with every order carrying a 150% money-back guarantee. Pick your fixture from the lists below and secure a seat while there is one to secure.
Sources: Official Deportivo Alaves website at alaves.com, LaLiga, UEFA, Transfermarkt, StadiumDB, Noticias de Alava and Wikipedia.
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