Buy Elche tickets for the 2026/27 La Liga season and you are buying into a club that survived by a single point and then spent the summer rebuilding from a position of unexpected strength. Elche finished on 43 points last season, one clear of the drop, and did it on a home record of nine wins and eight draws from nineteen at the Martinez Valero against a single away win all campaign. Whatever this side is, it is a different team in Elche.
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Two things changed after that. Eder Sarabia, who had taken the club up and kept it up, announced his departure in May despite having achieved exactly what he was asked to. The Argentine Martin Anselmi replaced him on 13 June on a one-year deal with a second linked to objectives. And Alvaro Rodriguez was sold to Bournemouth for a reported 25 million euros, which funded Buba Sangare from Roma, Fer Nino from Burgos, Gonzalo Villar from Dinamo Zagreb and Facundo Buonanotte on loan from Brighton while still leaving the club with a net transfer surplus.
What follows covers what a seat at the Martinez Valero actually costs, how the abono system shapes what reaches open sale, which stand suits which kind of supporter and which fixtures sell out first. Every league fixture, home and away, has its own page linked at the foot of this one.
Elche have one of the more remarkable season ticket bases in Spanish football relative to the size of the city, and the ground holds 33,732 in a municipality of around a quarter of a million people. The pass holders take the bulk of that, and what reaches general sale is the residue, released a few weeks before each fixture.
The timing is what makes club channels difficult for anyone travelling. La Liga confirms kick-off slots only weeks ahead, and Elche sits inland from the Costa Blanca, reached through Alicante airport rather than directly, which means flights and accommodation are committed months before the club opens a window. By the time seats appear, the trip is already paid for.
Resale inverts that sequence. Seats released by pass holders who cannot attend reach the open market, so you secure the position first and build the trip around it. Because those releases come from individuals across all four sides of the ground rather than from a block the club has held back, the choice of stand is usually wider than a public sale offers.
1BoxOffice has operated as a verified secondary marketplace since 2006, a span covering Elche's promotions, relegations and their current spell in the top flight. Orders are checked rather than simply 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. The protection attached to each order does not vary, which counts when you are buying a seat in a smaller Spanish city weeks or months in advance.
Demand at Elche is a study in how a modest club with a large ground and a devoted local base behaves in the top flight. The absolute numbers are small next to Madrid or Barcelona, and the constraint is real because the pass base absorbs so much of a stadium built for a bigger era.
The pressures below combine differently depending on the opponent and the point in the season. A November fixture against a fellow lower-half side behaves nothing like the visit of Real Madrid.
Read together, these describe a market where the routine fixtures stay accessible and the marquee ones do not. Identify which category your chosen date falls into rather than assuming a smaller club means easy availability.
Pricing at the Martinez Valero sits at the accessible end of La Liga, which is one of the reasons a trip here works well as an addition to a Costa Blanca holiday. Face value through club channels has typically run from around 10 to 35 euros depending on position, which is a fraction of what the same category costs in Madrid or Barcelona. The resale market broadly tracks that, with the exception of the three or four fixtures everybody wants.
Stand matters in a ground of this shape. The Tribuna along the main side carries the fullest cover and the highest prices, the Preferencia sits opposite, and the Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur ends occupy the lower end of the range behind each goal. The stadium is a large open bowl rather than a tight modern ground, so elevation and cover vary more than a seating plan suggests.
Timing is where visitors are caught out. Because the pass base is so large relative to the city, the volume reaching open sale is smaller than a 33,732 capacity implies, and for the visits of the three biggest clubs it is very small indeed. For a fixture against lower-table opposition in autumn 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) | £28 – £110 |
| La Liga (Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid) | £70 – £340+ |
| La Liga (other high-demand fixtures) | £45 – £170 |
| La Liga (lower-demand fixtures) | £25 – £80 |
| Copa del Rey (early rounds) | £15 – £60 |
| Copa del Rey (later rounds) | £40 – £160 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £150 – £650+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes. Elche operate a socio and abonado structure in which the season pass is the meaningful commitment, and neither it nor any separate membership tier is required to attend a match. What the pass determines is who gets first access when seats are released, and at a club with a pass base this large relative to its ground, that ordering decides most of what happens.
The obstacle for a visitor is availability rather than eligibility. General sale opens a few weeks before each fixture on whatever pass holders have not taken, which works for a Sunday afternoon against a fellow lower-half club and works poorly when Barcelona or Real Madrid are the opponent. There is no membership tier a visiting supporter can buy into that changes this for a single trip.
The secondary market removes the question. Seats released by pass holders reach the open market, which means no Spanish address, no local payment method and no need to time a trip around a sales window that opens three weeks out. It also lets you commit in October for a fixture in March, which is how anyone flying into Alicante actually has to plan.
Elche is a city of around 250,000 people with a stadium holding 33,732, and the season pass is what makes that arithmetic work. Passes are held across generations, renewed as a matter of course each summer and treated as a household commitment rather than an annual decision about whether the football is worth watching. The club has repeatedly reported pass numbers that would flatter clubs from far larger cities.
The pricing supports it. The pass covers nineteen home league fixtures plus cup football at a level well below what an equivalent seat costs in the larger Spanish cities, and holders take priority on away allocations. In a season where survival is again the realistic objective, that combination of affordability and loyalty is what keeps the Martinez Valero close to full for fixtures that decide very little in the wider league.
| Season Pass Area | Typical Annual Range (GBP) | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur | £140 – £250 | Behind the goals, the most affordable route into the pass system and where the noise is generated |
| Corner sections | £190 – £310 | Angled across both penalty areas, a middle ground on price and position |
| Preferencia | £260 – £420 | The side opposite the dugouts, with a clear view across the pitch |
| Tribuna, outer blocks | £340 – £520 | Main stand away from the halfway line, covered and nearer the tunnel end |
| Tribuna, central blocks | £460 – £720+ | Halfway-line seating on the main side, the most sought-after positions in the ground |
Ranges are indicative and may change from season to season depending on the club's pricing structure and its division.
The Martinez Valero is a large open bowl built in the 1970s, which means the differences between areas here are more about cover and elevation than at a modern enclosed ground. Knowing which sections have a roof matters more than it would elsewhere, particularly for evening fixtures in the winter months.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fondo Sur | Atmosphere and singing | Lower | Where the organised support gathers behind the goal with flags and drums. Standing for long stretches, and the section that sets the tone for the rest of the ground. |
| Fondo Norte | Value behind the goal | Lower | The opposite end, quieter with a straight-on view of one penalty area. Also the area nearest the visiting allocation. |
| Tribuna, central blocks | Clean view and cover | Upper | Main stand at the halfway line, closest to the benches and covered. The clearest read of the game and the driest seats in the ground. |
| Tribuna, outer blocks | Cover at a lower price | Mid to upper | Same stand, further towards the corners. Keeps 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 and upper reaches | Balancing price against view | Lower to mid | Angled and elevated with a complete view of the pitch. Cover varies considerably by block, so check the listing notes before committing. |
Away travel from Elche is more manageable than from most of the division's outlying clubs, with Valencia, Villarreal and the Madrid grounds all within reasonable reach. Season pass holders take priority on away allocations, and given how poor the record on the road was last season, those trips are made in hope rather than expectation.
| 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 long climb from turnstile to seat. |
| Access requirements | Allocations are distributed through the club, with season pass holders served first. Photo identification matching the ticket is commonly requested for fixtures classified as high risk. |
| Home-section listings | Many away-day supporters end up in home areas. That is manageable at a quieter ground and a poor idea at the Camp Nou or the Bernabeu, where visible away colours in a home block invite relocation. |
| Transport and timing | Elche sits close to Alicante with good road and rail links up the coast, but Spanish kick-offs run late and a 10.45pm finish rules out same-night travel back from most of the country. |
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.
Supporters arrive at the Martinez Valero for quite different reasons, and a ground of this size gives you a real choice. A visitor driving over from a week on the Costa Blanca wants something different from a lifelong Franjiverde in the Fondo Sur. The table below maps the common priorities.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Fondo Sur | Where the organised support gathers with drums and flags, and where the singing starts. Expect to be standing for most of the ninety minutes. |
| View of the game | Tribuna, central blocks | Halfway line on the main side, covered and elevated enough to read the shape of the match rather than just follow the ball. |
| Families and first visits | Preferencia or the outer Tribuna | Seated throughout, calmer than the ends and with straightforward concourse access. A sensible default for anyone bringing children to a first Spanish match. |
| 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 and the upper corners | The most affordable seats in the ground with a full view of the pitch. Check cover in the listing notes, because not every block at this end has a roof. |
The Martinez Valero opened on 8 September 1976 with a friendly against Mexico, replacing the old Campo de Altabix that Elche had outgrown. It was built deliberately larger than the club's results justified, a decision that looked ambitious at the time and paid off six years later when it was selected as a venue for the 1982 World Cup. Very few clubs of this size play in a stadium of this scale.
It is named after Manuel Martinez Valero, the club president who drove the project through, and it sits on the eastern edge of the city around three kilometres from the centre. Capacity is listed by the club and the league at 33,732, though the ground as originally built was larger and figures above 36,000 appear in some references. Details of the current configuration are set out on the Estadio Martinez Valero stadium page.
Its record is broader than the club's league history would suggest. Three group matches of the 1982 World Cup were played here, the 2003 Copa del Rey final was staged at the ground, and the Spain national team has used it on several occasions. For a stadium attached to a club that has spent most of its existence in the second tier, that is an unusual set of credentials.
The bowl is open rather than enclosed, with cover concentrated on the main side and varying elsewhere, which is the single most practical thing to establish before buying. Elche sits inland from the coast and summer evenings are hot while winter nights can be sharp, so knowing whether your block has a roof matters more here than at a modern ground. Check exactly where a listing sits against the Martinez Valero seating plan before you commit.
Getting there is straightforward once you are in the region. Elche is served by Cercanias line C1 running between Alicante and Murcia, with regional services from Valencia, and city bus routes K and H connect the station to the ground with the Barxell stop the one to use. Alicante airport sits around twenty minutes away by road and is the arrival point for the great majority of visiting supporters.
The city rewards arriving early rather than driving in for kick-off. The Palmeral de Elche, the largest palm grove in Europe with more than 200,000 trees, runs through the centre and is a designated World Heritage site, and the Basilica de Santa Maria and the municipal park sit within a short walk of it. The tapas bars around the Placa de Baix and the streets of the old centre are where supporters gather before heading out to the ground.
On matchday the stadium opens well before kick-off and, because it is larger than the crowd it usually holds, queues clear quickly compared with tighter grounds. Forty-five minutes ahead is enough for a routine fixture, though the visits of the wealthiest clubs merit an hour given how much of the ground fills early on those nights.
Hospitality at the Martinez Valero is a modest operation next to what the wealthiest Spanish clubs offer, which is reflected in the pricing. What exists sits in the Tribuna, where the club has lounge and catering provision alongside the central seating on the main side.
The value for a visiting supporter is different here from at a large club. Hospitality is less a route past a closed general sale and more a way of building a longer afternoon around a match 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 – £270 |
| Lounge package | Central seating plus catering, a bar and a longer lounge window either side of kick-off. | £240 – £420 |
| Dining package | Seated dining before the match, halfway-line seating and post-match lounge access. | £380 – £650 |
| Group and corporate | Blocks of premium seats with catering arranged for a party, suited to company entertaining or a group trip. | £850 – £2,800+ per group |
| Marquee fixtures | Any of the above applied to a visit from Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid, where demand raises the rate sharply. | £350 – £1,200+ |
Availability is limited given the scale of the operation, 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 the visit of one of the bigger clubs saves time when listings move quickly.
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 stand they sit in and how they will be delivered. Cover is the one to check at this ground, because it is an open bowl and not every section has a roof.
Step5
Check the quantity before you commit
Groups should confirm the listing holds enough seats together rather than assuming adjacency. Because most inventory comes from individual pass holders releasing their own places, single and paired listings outnumber blocks of four.
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 the Martinez Valero do not behave uniformly. Some Elche tickets stay listed for weeks while others are gone within days, and the gap is wide because a handful of fixtures pull demand from well outside the province. Knowing which category applies tells you how far ahead to commit.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Barcelona and Real Madrid | Two dates that draw national and international attention into a stadium most neutrals would not otherwise visit, with British holidaymakers on the Costa Blanca adding to local demand. These sell out first every season. |
| Atletico Madrid and the European contenders | Fixtures against the sides competing at the top carry more interest than the table position suggests, and Elche's home record makes an upset a realistic prospect rather than a fantasy. |
| Valencia and the regional fixtures | The closest clubs geographically, with a travelling support that fills its allocation and a local following that treats these as the matches to attend if you only attend a few. |
| Relegation six-pointers | Elche survived by a single point last season. Fixtures against the clubs immediately around them carry an intensity that no fixture list conveys in August, and they sell faster as the season progresses. |
| Season opener and the run-in | The first home match under Martin Anselmi draws a curious crowd on top of the regulars, and the closing fixtures accelerate sharply when survival is still unresolved, which at Elche it usually is. |
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 driving over from the coast on the afternoon 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 larger than the crowd it usually holds, queues clear faster than at tighter stadiums. Forty-five minutes ahead is comfortable for a routine fixture, and an hour is sensible for the visits of the wealthiest clubs when the ground fills early. The journey out from the centre takes around ten to fifteen minutes, so eating in the old town beforehand is entirely practical.
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 the crowd arrives together.
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. Summer evenings here are hot and much of the bowl is uncovered, so water and sun protection matter more in August than a coat does.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Elche Club de Futbol, S.A.D. |
| Founded | 10 January 1923, through a merger of local clubs |
| Nicknames | Los Franjiverdes, the green stripes, and Los Ilicitanos |
| Stadium | Estadio Manuel Martinez Valero, opened September 1976, capacity 33,732 |
| Head coach | Martin Anselmi, appointed 13 June 2026 on a one-year deal with a second linked to objectives |
| Captain | Pedro Bigas, the senior centre-back in the squad |
| President | Joaquin Buitrago Marhuenda |
| League | La Liga, 20 clubs, a second consecutive season in the top flight |
| Best league finish | Fifth, in 1963/64 |
Elche's history turns on one decision: a president who built a 1970s stadium for a club that had no business needing one, and was proved right when the World Cup came to it six years later. Everything about how this club presents itself, and why a city of 250,000 sustains a ground of 33,732, traces back to that.
For its first thirty-six years Elche were a provincial club playing at Altabix in a city better known for footwear and palm trees than football. The rise through the divisions was slow and the breakthrough came late, with promotion to the top flight arriving only in 1959. What followed was the most productive period the club has had, and it was built on an administrative decision as much as a footballing one.
Martinez Valero took over in 1962 and spent two decades turning a newly promoted provincial side into an established top-flight club. The recruitment was ambitious for the size of the operation, bringing internationals to a city that had never had them, and the fifth-place finish in 1963/64 remains the high-water mark. Cesar Rodriguez, who held Barcelona's scoring record for half a century, finished his career here, and Juan Manuel Asensi started his before a decade at the Camp Nou. The 1969 cup final, lost late, is the closest the club has come to a major trophy.
The three decades after Martinez Valero's presidency were mostly spent in the second division, punctuated by short and unhappy stays among the elite. The 2012/13 Segunda title was one of the more emphatic in the competition's history, with Elche leading from the opening weekend to the close, and it delivered two seasons back in La Liga. The end of the second of those is the episode supporters still talk about: the club finished 13th on the pitch and was relegated off it in June 2015 for unpaid tax, with Eibar taking the place. It was a reminder that at this level the balance sheet decides as much as the results.
The most recent cycle has been the familiar one accelerated. Elche came up in 2020, took eleventh place on 42 points in 2021/22 with Pere Milla top-scoring, and were relegated in 2022/23 in their centenary season after a campaign of five wins and 23 defeats through repeated managerial changes. Sarabia arrived in June 2024, went straight back up and then kept them up, and left in May 2026 having done both. Anselmi inherits a squad strengthened by the money from Alvaro Rodriguez's sale and a home record that suggests the ground is worth points on its own.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Martinez Valero | President, 1962 to 1982 | Took a newly promoted provincial club and made it an established top-flight side across two decades, recruiting internationals nobody expected to come to Elche and commissioning a stadium far larger than the results justified. The ground carries his name for good reason. | The 1963/64 fifth-place finish and the stadium that hosted the 1982 World Cup |
| Juan Manuel Asensi | Midfielder, 1960s and 1970s | A local player who came through at Elche and became good enough to spend a decade at Barcelona afterwards, which for a club of this size is the highest form of validation. Still the most celebrated footballer the city has produced. | Developed at Elche before ten seasons at Barcelona |
| Cesar Rodriguez | Forward, end of career | Arrived having spent his prime at Barcelona, where he held the club scoring record for more than fifty years until Lionel Messi passed it in 2012. Scored prolifically at Elche in the closing stage of a remarkable career. | Held the Barcelona scoring record until 2012 |
| Jose Araquistain | Goalkeeper, 1960s | A European Cup winner with Real Madrid who came to Elche during the Martinez Valero era and gave the side a standard of goalkeeping that a club of this size had never had. Emblematic of the ambition of the period. | A European Cup winner before joining the club |
| Vava II | Forward, 1960s | The Brazilian striker brought in as the attacking centrepiece of the club's most successful side, at a time when a foreign international arriving at Elche was genuinely unusual in Spanish football. | Part of the squad that finished fifth in La Liga |
| Eder Sarabia | Head coach, 2024 to 2026 | Took over in the second division in June 2024, won promotion at the first attempt and then kept the club in La Liga by a single point. Announced his departure in May 2026 having achieved everything asked of him. | Promotion in 2025 and survival in 2026 |
Elche have never won a major honour, which is true of most clubs their size and does not make the near misses any less commemorated in the city. The counts below have been cross-referenced against club publications and independent football records.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| La Liga | Best finish fifth, in 1963/64 |
| Copa del Rey | Runners-up in 1969 |
| Segunda Division | Champions in 1972/73 and 2012/13 |
| Promotions to La Liga | Multiple, most recently through the play-offs in 2020 and again in 2025 |
| World Cup matches hosted | Three group-stage fixtures at the 1982 tournament |
| Copa del Rey finals hosted | The 2003 final was staged at the Martinez Valero |
The 2012/13 Segunda championship is the one most often cited, won by a side that led the division from the opening matchday to the last. The 1969 cup final, settled late by Athletic Club, remains the closest Elche have come to a major trophy.
Elche's rivalries are provincial rather than national, which is what happens to a club that has spent most of its history in the second tier. The sharpest of them are with sides currently below La Liga, so the fixtures that carry an edge in the top flight are the regional ones rather than the historic ones.
The Derbi de la provincia de Alicante is the fixture that matters most in this part of Spain, contested with the club from the provincial capital twenty minutes up the road. Hercules have spent recent years well below La Liga, which means the derby has been absent from the calendar rather than diminished, and it retains an intensity in both cities that no current top-flight fixture matches for Elche supporters.
The most keenly contested of Elche's rivalries that is actually on the La Liga calendar this season. The two Valencian Community clubs have met repeatedly across both of Spain's top two divisions over the past fifteen years, frequently with promotion or survival at stake for one or both, which has given a fixture without deep historical roots a genuine competitive weight.
The Derbi del Sureste, contested with the club from the neighbouring region an hour down the coast. Like the Hercules fixture it has largely been played outside the top flight in recent decades, and like that one it is remembered in both cities more vividly than the divisions involved would suggest.
An unusual entry, and the only international side with a genuine connection to this ground. Mexico's national team played the inaugural match at the Martinez Valero on 8 September 1976, which makes them the first opponent the stadium ever hosted and gives the fixture a place in the club's institutional memory that no European club side occupies.
Three group-stage matches of the 1982 World Cup were staged at the Martinez Valero, which remains the highest level of football the ground has hosted and the reason the stadium exists at the scale it does. For a club that has never played in European competition, those matches are the closest the ground has come to a continental occasion.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | The most comfortable of Elche's recent top-flight seasons. They finished eleventh on 42 points from eleven wins, nine draws and eighteen defeats, scoring 40 and conceding 52. Pere Milla top-scored with eight across all competitions. It was a second consecutive season in La Liga and, at the time, looked like the beginning of a period of stability. |
| 2022/23 | Relegation in the club's centenary year, and a difficult one. Elche finished sixteenth on 25 points from five wins, ten draws and 23 defeats, scoring 30 and conceding 67. The campaign was punctuated by repeated managerial changes including two caretaker spells, and Lucas Boye led the scoring with seven. The hundredth anniversary was not marked the way anyone in the city had hoped. |
| 2023/24 | A first season back in the second division spent rebuilding rather than challenging. The squad that had gone down was broken up and the club set about restructuring rather than gambling on an immediate return, which by the standards of recently relegated Spanish clubs was the sober choice. It set the platform for what followed. |
| 2024/25 | Eder Sarabia was appointed on 24 June 2024 and delivered promotion at the first attempt, with Elche holding a strong position through the season and reaching 60 points from 33 matches by the end of March. The Copa del Rey run ended 4-0 against Real Sociedad in the round of 16 in January. It was the club's second consecutive campaign in the second tier and the last for now. |
| 2025/26 | Survival by a single point. Elche finished on 43 points from ten wins, thirteen draws and fifteen defeats, with a home record of nine wins and eight draws from nineteen set against a single away victory all season. Andre Silva top-scored with ten, the Copa del Rey run ended against Real Betis in the round of 16 in January, and Sarabia announced his departure in May having kept the club up. |
Anselmi inherits a squad reshaped by a single piece of business. Alvaro Rodriguez was sold to Bournemouth for a reported 25 million euros, which for a club of this size is transformative, and the money went back into the team rather than the balance sheet. Buba Sangare arrived from Roma as the most expensive signing, Fer Nino from Burgos, Gonzalo Villar from Dinamo Zagreb and Facundo Buonanotte on loan from Brighton, with Victor Chust and Javier Morcillo also joining. Even after that, the window closed with a net surplus of around 13 million euros.
Rather than list valuations that vary widely between sources at this level, the column below sets out each player's role in the 2026/27 group, which is more use when you are deciding whether a fixture is worth travelling for. Several of the summer arrivals had not been assigned squad numbers when the season opened.
| No. | Player | Position | Role in the 2026/27 Squad |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matias Dituro | Goalkeeper | First choice between the posts and one of the senior figures in the squad |
| 45 | Alejandro Iturbe | Goalkeeper | Academy-developed deputy competing for cup minutes |
| 6 | Pedro Bigas | Centre-back | Club captain and the organiser of the defence |
| 22 | David Affengruber | Centre-back | Austria international and a regular starter in the back line |
| 41 | Albert Niculaesei | Defender | Young defender promoted into the senior group |
| 42 | Buba Sangare | Right-back | Signed from Roma as the club's most expensive summer arrival |
| 43 | Alex Herraiz | Defender | Academy graduate providing cover across the back line |
| 18 | John Donald | Defender | Squad option in defence for a second season in the top flight |
| 5 | Federico Redondo | Midfielder | Holding midfielder and one of the first names on the team sheet |
| 8 | Marc Aguado | Midfielder | Central midfielder expected to start under Anselmi |
| 16 | Martim Neto | Midfielder | Portuguese midfielder who arrived during the promotion season |
| 19 | Grady Diangana | Midfielder | Wide attacking midfielder with Premier League experience behind him |
| 24 | Lucas Cepeda | Midfielder | Chile international operating on the left of the attack |
| 37 | Antonio Martinez | Midfielder | Academy product working his way into the first-team rotation |
| 7 | Yago Santiago | Forward | Wide forward and a regular contributor from the flanks |
| 11 | German Valera | Forward | Attacking option offering pace in behind |
| 15 | Tete Morente | Forward | Long-serving forward and one of the squad's more experienced attackers |
Also in the first-team group are Gonzalo Villar, Facundo Buonanotte, Fer Nino, Victor Chust, Bambo Diaby and Javier Morcillo, several of whom were still awaiting squad numbers as the campaign began.
No. The season pass determines who gets first access when seats are released, but it is not required to attend. Buying through a verified marketplace gives you access to seats released by pass holders without any subscription or Spanish address.
Alicante airport is around twenty minutes from Elche by road, and Cercanias line C1 links the two cities by rail. From Elche station, city bus routes K and H run to the ground, with the Barxell stop the one to use.
The Fondo Sur, where the organised support gathers behind the goal with flags and drums. Expect to be standing for much of the match. For a covered seated view that lets you read the game, the central Tribuna is the better choice.
No. The Martinez Valero is an open bowl built in the 1970s, with cover concentrated on the main side and varying elsewhere. Check the stand and block stated in the listing notes before buying, particularly for winter evening kick-offs.
It was built in 1976 under president Manuel Martinez Valero, who commissioned a ground far larger than the club's results justified. The decision was vindicated when the stadium was selected to host three matches at the 1982 World Cup, and it was renamed in his honour after his death in 1988.
A stadium with World Cup history, a new manager with a growing reputation and a home record that turns the Martinez Valero into a genuine advantage make this a more interesting season than Elche's league position will suggest. 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 Elche CF website at elchecf.es, LaLiga, UEFA, Transfermarkt, StadiumDB, Football Espana and Wikipedia.
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