Buy Espanyol tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into a club in the middle of the largest change in its modern history. Alan Pace's Velocity Sports completed a takeover in October 2025 that ended a decade of Chinese ownership, Monchi arrived as general sporting director in May 2026, and the side finished eleventh last season, their highest placing since 2018/19.
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The RCDE Stadium in Cornellà holds around 40,000, which makes it the second-largest ground in Catalonia and one of the more accessible in Spanish football for a visiting supporter. Manolo González stays in charge on a contract to 2027 after Monchi confirmed him within days of arriving.
What has not changed is the thing that defines matchdays here. In the twenty-first minute of every fixture the whole ground applauds for a minute for Dani Jarque, the captain who died in 2009 at twenty-six. This page covers what seats cost, which fixtures clear first, how the stadium works and what the 2026/27 squad looks like after a summer of rebuilding.
Espanyol sell to abonados first and the season pass base takes up a substantial share of a 40,000-seat ground. What reaches general sale for an ordinary fixture is usually workable. What reaches it for the derbi barceloní against Barcelona, or for the visits of Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, is a different proposition entirely.
Those three fixtures behave nothing like the rest of the calendar. Demand for the Barcelona derby comes from the whole city rather than from Cornellà, the away allocation is fixed and small, and pass holders release almost nothing. A visitor planning a trip around a specific date and relying on the club's own sale is planning around a window that may produce no inventory at all.
A verified resale marketplace works on different timing. Season pass holders who cannot attend release their seat and it becomes available on a rolling basis rather than in one narrow window. That suits anyone booking flights months ahead, anyone without a Spanish address and anyone who decides on a Thursday that a Sunday in Cornellà is a better use of a weekend in Barcelona than another queue at the Sagrada Família.
1BoxOffice has operated as a verified secondary marketplace since 2006, which covers two relegations, two promotions, the 2007 UEFA Cup final and the move from Montjuïc to Cornellà. Listings come from sellers whose inventory is checked before it goes live, and the transaction is covered rather than left to trust between strangers.
For a fixture that people fly into Barcelona for, that protection is worth more than the price difference between listings. A failed ticket for the derby is not recoverable on the day.
Espanyol are the other club in a city that the world associates with one. That position has shaped everything about them since 1900 and it is the reason the ground fills for reasons that have little to do with league position.
The club was founded by Spanish students at a time when football in Barcelona was run by foreign residents, and it has carried that distinction ever since. The demand drivers below follow from a hundred and twenty-six years of being the alternative in a city with a very loud majority.
The result is a ground where the ordinary fixtures are obtainable and three or four each season are not, and where knowing which is which before you book flights saves a great deal of frustration.
Espanyol price for a Barcelona audience that already has a more expensive option across the city, which keeps standard La Liga fixtures at the reasonable end of the Spanish range. A mid-table Saturday at Cornellà is among the better-value top-flight afternoons available in a major European city.
The exception is the derby and the two Madrid visits, where the gradient is steep. Espanyol tickets for those three fixtures are effectively a separate market driven by how little the season pass base releases rather than by what the club charges. Copa del Rey ties follow the round: early rounds are inexpensive, a draw against a Champions League club is not.
Position within the ground matters less than at older stadiums, because the RCDE Stadium was designed as a football ground with a roof over 92.5% of the seats and no running track. The Tribuna along the main side carries the highest prices, the Lateral opposite offers a comparable view for less, and the two ends behind the goals sit at the lower end of the range.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| La Liga, standard fixtures | £25 – £70 |
| La Liga, high-demand fixtures | £70 – £300+ |
| Copa del Rey, early rounds | £20 – £50 |
| Copa del Rey, later rounds | £50 – £200+ |
| Hospitality and VIP | £220 – £600+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes. The abono at Espanyol is a season pass rather than a club membership carrying voting rights, and the club sells single-match seats to the general public for every fixture once the pass holders' window has closed. For most of the calendar that process works and a visitor can buy directly.
Where it stops working is the handful of fixtures everyone wants. For the derby against Barcelona, pass holders take up their seats almost without exception, the general-sale pool is small and it clears in the time it takes to load a page. Persistence does not help when the underlying supply is a few hundred seats in a 40,000-capacity ground.
The secondary market removes the timing problem entirely. A pass holder who cannot make a Wednesday night releases the seat and it becomes available to anyone, with no window to have caught, no Spanish address and no card. The seat is in the same stand at the same ground on the same night.
Espanyol's season pass base is the club's most reliable asset and it has survived things that would have broken a less stubborn support. Two relegations since 2020, a decade of ownership run from another continent and the permanent condition of being the smaller club in a city of two have not moved the abono numbers much.
Renewal windows open in the summer and pass holders keep their seat from year to year. Pricing sits below the Spanish average for a top-flight club in a major city, which is deliberate and which reflects a support base drawn from Cornellà, El Prat and the towns of the Baix Llobregat rather than from central Barcelona. Youth and senior bands cut it further.
| Abono Area | Typical Season Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Gol Nord and Gol Sud, upper | £135 – £230 |
| Gol Nord and Gol Sud, lower | £180 – £280 |
| Lateral | £260 – £400 |
| Tribuna | £380 – £560 |
| Youth and senior concession bands | £50 – £190 |
Ranges are indicative of recent campaigns, set by the club and converted from euros. They are included as context on what a released seat represents to the person releasing it, since an abonado giving up a fixture is giving up part of something they renewed for the season.
The ground was designed as a football stadium rather than adapted from one, which is not true of everywhere Espanyol have played. There is no running track, the stands are steep and close to the touchline and the roof covers 92.5% of the seating. There is no genuinely poor view in the building.
| Stand or Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tribuna, central | The clearest view of the match | Highest | Main stand on the halfway line, fully covered. Directors' area and hospitality sit within it, along with the media positions. |
| Tribuna, wings | Cover and elevation at a lower price | High | Same stand, angled towards one goal. Retains the roof and the sightline without the central premium. |
| Lateral | Value against sightline | Mid | The opposite side, facing the main stand. Comparable angle at a lower price, which makes it the most contested area on general sale. |
| Gol Sud and the Grada de Animació | Noise and organised support | Lower | Where the singing comes from, behind the goal. Standing-style support throughout and not the section for a quiet afternoon. |
| Gol Nord | Behind the goal without the intensity | Lowest | The calmer end. Families and older supporters concentrate here and the price reflects the angle rather than the quality of the seat. |
| Upper tiers and corners | Availability when nothing else exists | Lower | The last areas to sell and often the only ones with inventory for the derby. Fully covered, like almost everything else in the ground. |
Espanyol's away support is drawn from the Baix Llobregat and the working towns around the stadium rather than from central Barcelona, which keeps the numbers moderate and the group committed. The Madrid fixtures and the Valencian trips are the ones that fill first.
| Aspect | Detail |
|---|---|
| Typical away allocation | Around 5% of the host stadium's capacity, adjusted by the home club and the local safety authority. Larger where the journey is short, smaller where a flight is needed. |
| Where you will be sitting | Upper-tier corner or end blocks at most La Liga grounds. Segregation is standard and the block is set by the host rather than chosen by the buyer. |
| Access requirements | Spain has no national away-supporter card. Photo ID matching the ticket name is requested at several grounds, and some clubs restrict specific away fixtures to their own members. |
| The trip to Camp Nou | The away derby is a short journey across the city and the hardest away ticket of the season by a distance. It clears among Espanyol's own support and never reaches a wider release. |
| Getting there | Barcelona's rail and air connections make every away fixture in Spain reachable in a day. Sants covers the high-speed network and El Prat is fifteen minutes from the stadium itself. |
Because the RCDE Stadium was purpose-built, the choice here is genuinely about the experience rather than about avoiding an obstructed view or an exposed seat. Almost everything is covered and almost everything is close.
| What You Want | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Gol Sud, the Grada de Animació | Where the organised support gathers behind the goal with drums and flags. Steep, close to the pitch and loud from an hour before kick-off. |
| View of the match | Tribuna, central blocks | Halfway line, fully covered and raised enough to read the shape of the game. The most complete view in a ground with no bad ones. |
| Family-friendly | Gol Nord or the upper Lateral | Quieter sections with a calmer crowd, full cover and straightforward concourse access. The safest choice for a first visit with children. |
| Premium experience | Palco and hospitality in the Tribuna | Catering, lounge access and a padded central seat. The stadium was built with these areas rather than having them retrofitted. |
| Lower-priced option | Gol Nord upper or the corners | The bottom of the price list in a ground where the roof covers more than nine tenths of the seats regardless of what you pay. |
Espanyol spent seventy-four years at Sarrià, a tight ground in a residential district of Barcelona that hosted three matches of the 1982 World Cup, including Italy's win over Brazil. Financial pressure forced its sale and demolition in 1997, and the club spent the next twelve years at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on Montjuïc, an athletics stadium with a running track and an atmosphere that suited nobody.
The current ground was built between November 2005 and June 2009 at a total cost of around 83 million euros and opened on 2 August 2009 with a friendly against Liverpool that Espanyol won 3-0. It straddles the boundary between Cornellà de Llobregat and El Prat de Llobregat, which is why it carried the name Estadi Cornellà-El Prat for its first years. Sponsorship has moved the name around since, through Power8 and Stage Front, and it has settled back on the RCDE Stadium.
Fenwick Iribarren and Gasulla Arquitectura designed it as a football ground with no compromises. The roof covers 92.5% of the seating, the stands rise steeply from close to the touchline and 2,720 photovoltaic panels on the structure generate the electricity the building uses. Capacity is generally given as 40,000, with independent stadium records putting the seated figure a little under 38,000.
Two features set it apart from any other ground in Spain. The first is a columbarium, a place within the stadium where supporters' ashes are held, which is the most literal expression of belonging that a football club has ever built into its architecture. The second is the bronze sculpture of Dani Jarque at entrance 21, the captain who died of a cardiac arrest in August 2009 at twenty-six, days after the ground opened. Fixtures are listed on the RCDE Stadium tickets page.
The twenty-first-minute applause has continued at every home fixture since. It is not organised or announced. The clock reaches 21 and the ground stands and claps for a minute, and it has done so for more than fifteen years. Visiting supporters usually join in, which is not something that happens often in Spanish football.
Getting there is straightforward for a stadium outside the city. Metro Line 5 runs to Cornellà Centre, about ten minutes on foot from the ground, and the journey from central Barcelona takes twenty-five to thirty minutes. Rodalies commuter trains serve Cornellà and the airport at El Prat is roughly fifteen minutes away. The Splau shopping centre next door absorbs a good deal of the pre-match crowd, which is less romantic than an old-town bar but considerably more practical in February. Block layouts are set out on the RCDE Stadium seating plan.
Hospitality at the RCDE Stadium was designed into the building rather than added later, which puts it ahead of most grounds of comparable size in Spain. The Tribuna houses the boxes, the lounge space and the premium seating, with catering and dedicated access.
Packages reach the resale market in smaller numbers than standard seating, since corporate holders release less often than individual pass holders. The ranges below reflect what they typically cost when they do appear.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Premium seating | Padded central seat in the Tribuna with lounge access before the match and at half time, plus catering. | £220 – £350 |
| Hospitality with dining | Full pre-match meal, drinks throughout and a central seat in the main stand. | £280 – £450 |
| Palco | Private box within the Tribuna with hosted service, sold by the season more often than by the match. | £400 – £650+ |
| Derby and high-demand hospitality | The same packages for Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atlético Madrid, released in very small numbers and priced accordingly. | £550 – £1,000+ |
The process takes a few minutes and works the same way for a routine fixture as for the derby. What differs is timing. For the three or four matches where demand exceeds the ground, starting early is the only real advantage on offer.
Step1
Find the fixture
Work from the home and away lists at the foot of this page rather than searching by date. Each fixture has its own page, so you land on the inventory for that specific match instead of a general listing.
Step2
Set up your account
You can create an account before browsing or at checkout. Doing it first is faster when a fixture is moving, and your delivery details are stored ready for when the right seats appear.
Step3
Choose your stand
Decide between the Tribuna, the Lateral and the two ends before filtering on price. At a purpose-built ground with a roof over almost every seat, that choice is about the crowd around you rather than about whether you can see or stay dry.
Step4
Read the listing properly
Check the block, row and any note about restricted view, seating together or delivery method. The upper corners at Cornellà vary more in angle than the block number suggests, so the description is worth the thirty seconds.
Step5
Confirm the quantity
Sellers list in set quantities and splitting a pair is not always possible. If you need four seats together, filter for four rather than assuming two listings of two will place you next to each other.
Step6
Check the total before you commit
The checkout shows the full amount including fees and delivery before payment. Compare that figure across listings rather than the headline seat price, which is where the meaningful difference usually sits.
Step7
Pay securely
Checkout runs over an SSL-encrypted connection and the 150% money-back guarantee attaches at the point the order is confirmed. Written confirmation follows immediately.
Step8
Follow it through to delivery
Use the track order page to follow the status through to the tickets reaching you. For fixtures booked months ahead, tickets are often released closer to the date, which is normal rather than a problem.
For the derby in particular, having an account ready and a stand chosen in advance is worth considerably more than speed at the checkout, because that fixture is decided by whether inventory exists at the moment you look rather than by how quickly you type.
Most home fixtures at Cornellà are obtainable with a little notice. Three or four each season are not, and the difference is worth knowing before you book anything else around a date.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Barcelona | The derbi barceloní, and the fixture the season is measured against. Demand comes from across the city rather than from Cornellà alone, pass holders release nothing and the general-sale pool clears immediately. Espanyol have beaten Barcelona at this ground and every supporter present remembers exactly when. |
| Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid | The two Madrid visits, where national interest meets a 40,000-seat ground. Neutral demand from visitors to Barcelona is heaviest for these, since Cornellà is a straightforward metro ride and Camp Nou tickets are harder still. |
| Copa del Rey ties against top-flight opposition | Espanyol have won the competition four times and the cup carries real weight here. A draw against a Champions League club produces demand well beyond the round's usual profile. |
| The opening and closing home fixtures | The first match under a new sporting director and the last with something at stake. Both sell through well ahead of the rest of the calendar. |
| Anything with survival or Europe in play | Espanyol finished eleventh last season and have been relegated twice since 2020. When the closing weeks matter in either direction, pass holders stop releasing seats and the resale supply goes with them. |
The delivery method is stated on every listing before you buy. Check it at the point of purchase rather than afterwards, particularly if you are travelling from outside Spain and a postal delivery would not reach you in time.
Gates open well before kick-off and the crowd arrives in waves off Metro Line 5, which keeps the queues moving rather than concentrating them. Thirty to forty minutes ahead is enough for a routine fixture. For the derby, an hour gives you time to reach your block and see the ground fill, and it means you are seated well before the twenty-first minute rather than walking through a concourse during it.
Entry is by scanning at the turnstile and the gate printed on your ticket corresponds to your block. Check it before you leave the city, because the perimeter at Cornellà is large and walking around it once the crowd has built takes longer than it looks. Photo ID matching the booking name is worth carrying, and if you are on a mobile ticket, download it before you go underground.
Small bags and handbags are permitted subject to search at the gate. Large rucksacks are refused and there is no storage at the stadium, so anything that will not fit under your seat should stay at the hotel. Bottles, cans, glass, flares and pyrotechnics are prohibited, along with professional cameras carrying detachable lenses. Sealed water bottles under half a litre are generally accepted.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona, S.A.D. |
| Founded | 28 October 1900 as the Sociedad Española de Football, the first club in Spain formed entirely by Spanish nationals |
| Nicknames | Els Periquitos, the parakeets, and Blanc-i-blaus, the white and blues |
| Colours | Blue and white since 1910, chosen in tribute to the medieval Aragonese admiral Roger de Llúria |
| Stadium | RCDE Stadium in Cornellà de Llobregat, opened 2 August 2009, capacity around 40,000 |
| Head coach | Manolo González, under contract to 2027 |
| Sporting director | Monchi, appointed May 2026 |
| Ownership | Velocity Sports Partners, part of Alan Pace's ALK Capital, since October 2025 |
| Record appearances and goals | Raúl Tamudo, 389 appearances and more than 125 goals |
| League | La Liga, 20 clubs, with 87 seasons in the top division behind them |
| Best league finish | Third, achieved twice |
Espanyol have never won La Liga and they have never been the largest club in their own city. What they have is four Copa del Rey titles, two European finals lost in the cruellest ways available and a hundred and twenty-six years of being the alternative in a place that does not always make room for one. The history below is not a story of trophies. It is a story of persistence.
Espanyol were founded because football in Barcelona was being run by foreign residents and a group of Spanish students wanted a club of their own. That origin gave the club its name and, eventually, a set of associations it has spent a century navigating. Sarrià became the ground the club is still measured against, a tight and steep stadium in a residential district, and the Copa titles of 1929 and 1940 were won there or on the way to it.
The 1988 UEFA Cup final is the defining near-miss of the club's history. Espanyol won the first leg 3-0 at Sarrià against Bayer Leverkusen and travelled to Germany with a lead that looked decisive. Leverkusen won the second leg 3-0, the tie went to penalties and Espanyol lost 3-2. Nine years later the ground where that first leg was played was sold to developers, and the club spent the next twelve seasons in an athletics stadium with a running track between the supporters and the pitch.
The 2006/07 UEFA Cup run produced a statistic that belongs to Espanyol alone. They went through the entire competition without losing a match and did not win it, because the final against Sevilla finished level after extra time and went to penalties. Two European finals, two penalty shoot-outs, two defeats. Weeks after the new stadium opened in 2009, Dani Jarque died at a pre-season training camp in Italy. He was twenty-six and he had been captain for a matter of weeks.
The decade under Chen Yansheng contained two relegations, two promotions and a growing distance between the boardroom and the stands. Manolo González, promoted from the reserve side, took the club back up through the play-offs in 2024 and then delivered eleventh place in 2025/26, the highest finish since 2018/19. Alan Pace's Velocity Sports completed their purchase in October 2025, and the arrival of Monchi in May 2026 gave Espanyol the most experienced sporting director in their history.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raúl Tamudo | Forward, academy to first team | Holds both club records, for appearances and for goals, across a career spent almost entirely at Espanyol and across three different home stadiums. Scored in the 2000 Copa del Rey final and played in the 2007 UEFA Cup final. The player most associated with the club in the modern era. | 389 appearances and more than 125 goals |
| Dani Jarque | Defender and captain, until 2009 | Came through the academy, captained the side and died of a cardiac arrest at a pre-season camp in August 2009 at twenty-six. The ground applauds for a minute in the twenty-first minute of every match, his shirt number, and a bronze sculpture of him stands at entrance 21 of the stadium. | The 21st minute, at every fixture since 2009 |
| Ladislao Kubala | Forward | One of the outstanding players of European football in the 1950s spent part of his career at Espanyol, adding a name to the club's history that belongs in any account of the Spanish game. | A career that spanned three national teams |
| Alfredo Di Stéfano | Forward | Played for Espanyol late in a career that had already reshaped Real Madrid and European football. A short chapter at Cornellà's predecessor, and a significant one in the club's telling of its own story. | A spell at Sarrià after the Real Madrid years |
| Mauricio Pochettino | Defender and later head coach | Spent seven years as a player and returned to manage the club in 2009, taking over in the season Jarque died and keeping Espanyol up. Went on to Southampton, Tottenham, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea, and has never stopped describing this club as the one that made him. | Player and head coach across two decades |
| Manolo González | Head coach, since 2024 | Promoted from the reserve team in 2024, won the play-off final against Real Oviedo to return Espanyol to La Liga, kept them there and then delivered eleventh place in 2025/26. Confirmed by Monchi within days of the sporting director's arrival. | Promotion in 2024 and eleventh in 2025/26 |
Espanyol have won four Copa del Rey titles and reached two European finals, which places them among the more decorated clubs in Spain never to have won the league. The counts below have been cross-referenced against club publications and independent football records.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Copa del Rey | 4, in 1929, 1940, 2000 and 2006 |
| UEFA Cup | Runners-up in 1988 and 2007, both lost on penalties |
| La Liga | Best finish third, achieved twice, from 87 seasons in the top division |
| Segunda División | Champions in 2020/21 |
| Copa Catalunya | Multiple titles |
| Founder member | One of the ten clubs that started La Liga in 1929 |
The 2006/07 UEFA Cup campaign remains the entry supporters return to. Espanyol went through the whole competition without losing a match and finished it without the trophy, which no other club has managed. Sevilla won the final on penalties in Glasgow after 120 minutes had settled nothing.
Espanyol have one rivalry that shapes everything and two others earned in specific matches that supporters have not forgotten. The first is about a city and its identity. The others are about trophies that were within reach and went somewhere else.
The derbi barceloní, contested since 1900 and unlike any other derby in Spain because of how uneven it is. Barcelona have won more of everything, and Espanyol's supporters have built an identity around not being them. The club's founding by Spanish students in a city where football was run by foreign residents set the terms, and the political associations that grew around both clubs across the twentieth century hardened them. Espanyol have won at Camp Nou and beaten Barcelona at their own ground, and every one of those results is catalogued in Cornellà with a precision that suggests they do not come often.
Not a geographic rivalry but a specific wound. Sevilla beat Espanyol on penalties in the 2007 UEFA Cup final at Hampden Park, 2-2 after extra time and 3-1 in the shootout, with Andrés Palop saving three. Espanyol had gone through the entire competition unbeaten to get there, winning their group with four wins from four and eliminating Livorno, Maccabi Haifa, Benfica and Werder Bremen. The league fixture between the two carries an edge that neither club's geography explains.
The oldest connection in the club's trophy record. Espanyol beat Real Madrid 2-1 to win their first Copa del Rey in 1929, the year La Liga began and the year both clubs became founder members of it. The modern fixture is one of the three that sells out Cornellà, and the historical asymmetry gives it a character closer to the Barcelona derby than the league table would suggest.
The club that took Espanyol's first European final in the most painful way available. Espanyol won the first leg of the 1988 UEFA Cup final 3-0 at Sarrià and travelled to Germany with a lead that appeared decisive. Leverkusen won the second leg 3-0, the aggregate finished 3-3 and the shootout went 3-2 to the hosts. It was the first of two European finals lost on penalties and it happened at a ground that no longer exists.
The opponent Espanyol beat to reach their second European final. The 2007 UEFA Cup semi-final finished 5-1 on aggregate, a 3-0 win at Montjuïc followed by a 2-1 victory in Germany, which for a club that had never been favourites in any round of that competition was the most complete performance of the campaign. Three weeks later Sevilla ended it in Glasgow.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | A first season back after winning the second division at the first attempt, finishing fourteenth in La Liga and securing survival without ever threatening the upper half. The squad was largely the one that had gone down and come back up, and the campaign was about re-establishing a top-flight standard rather than building on it. |
| 2022/23 | A second relegation in four years, going down in nineteenth after a season of managerial instability and a defensive record that could not be corrected. It ended a period in which Espanyol had been a top-flight club for all but one season since 1994 and forced a rebuild that the ownership was not well placed to fund. |
| 2023/24 | Promotion at the first attempt, but the hard way. Espanyol finished outside the automatic places and went through the play-offs, beating Real Oviedo in the final to return to La Liga. Manolo González had been promoted from the reserve side mid-season and delivered the result that defined his appointment. |
| 2024/25 | Survival on 42 points in fourteenth, with Javi Puado the leading scorer. The home record carried the season and the away record nearly undid it, a pattern that repeated the following year. Off the pitch it was the last full campaign under Chen Yansheng, with the sale agreed in July 2025 and completed that October. |
| 2025/26 | Eleventh on 46 points from twelve wins, ten draws and sixteen defeats, scoring 43 and conceding 55. It was the club's highest finish since 2018/19 and it came in a season of upheaval off the pitch, with Velocity Sports completing their takeover on 9 October and Monchi appointed general sporting director on 26 May. Goalkeeper Joan García left for Barcelona. |
Monchi's first summer was about replacing the players who carried eleventh place rather than adding to them. Carlos Romero, Charles Pickel, Ramón Terrats and Fernando Calero all left, and the response was a rebuild of the defence: Unai Núñez on loan from Celta, Quilindschy Hartman on loan from Burnley and Vanja Drkušić and Clemens Riedel retained alongside captain Leandro Cabrera.
The Burnley connection is not a coincidence. Alan Pace's ALK Capital owns both clubs, and player movement between them is an explicit part of how this ownership intends to operate. The largest outlay went on Álex Calatrava from Castellón, with Gabriel Moscardo arriving on loan from Paris Saint-Germain. Edu Expósito carries the creative burden early in the season with Javi Puado and Kike García both unavailable at the start.
| No. | Player | Position | Role in the 2026/27 Squad |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Marko Dmitrović | Goalkeeper | Serbia international and first choice after Joan García's departure |
| 1 | Ángel Fortuño | Goalkeeper | Deputy and cup option |
| 6 | Leandro Cabrera | Centre-back | Captain and the senior organiser of the defence |
| 5 | Clemens Riedel | Centre-back | German defender established in the starting line |
| 16 | Vanja Drkušić | Centre-back | Slovenia international competing for a starting role |
| 14 | Unai Núñez | Centre-back | On loan from Celta with substantial top-flight experience |
| 15 | Miguel Rubio | Centre-back | Squad depth through the middle of the defence |
| 23 | Omar El Hilali | Right-back | Academy-developed full-back and a regular starter |
| 2 | Rubén Sánchez | Right-back | Rotation option on the right |
| 3 | Quilindschy Hartman | Left-back | On loan from Burnley, the ownership group's other club |
| 12 | José Salinas | Left-back | Cover down the left flank |
| 8 | Edu Expósito | Midfielder | The creative centre of the side and its main outlet from deep |
| 10 | Pol Lozano | Midfielder | Academy graduate operating in front of the defence |
| 4 | Urko González de Zárate | Midfielder | Signed in 2025 and now a regular in central midfield |
| 20 | Gabriel Moscardo | Midfielder | On loan from Paris Saint-Germain |
| 22 | Álex Calatrava | Midfielder | The summer's largest outlay, signed from Castellón |
| 24 | Tyrhys Dolan | Winger | Direct wide attacker with English second-tier experience |
| 11 | Pere Milla | Winger | Versatile attacker used across the front line |
| 17 | Jofre Carreras | Winger | Academy-developed wide player competing for minutes |
| 7 | Javi Puado | Forward | Leading scorer in recent seasons and the reference point in attack |
| 9 | Roberto Fernández | Forward | Centre-forward signed in 2025 to lead the line |
| 19 | Kike García | Forward | Experienced target option, unavailable at the start of the campaign |
| 27 | Adama Timera | Forward | Young attacker promoted from the reserve side |
Squad numbers reflect the registrations published at the start of the campaign and may shift before the window closes. The academy, based at the training complex the club named after Dani Jarque, continues to supply the first team, with El Hilali, Lozano and Carreras all products of it, which for a club of this budget is a necessity as much as a philosophy.
The whole ground stands and applauds for a minute for Dani Jarque, the captain who died of a cardiac arrest in August 2009 at twenty-six. Twenty-one was his shirt number and there is a bronze sculpture of him at entrance 21. It has happened at every home match since and visiting supporters usually join in.
No. The abono is a season pass rather than a membership with voting rights, and single-match seats go on general sale for every fixture once the pass holders' window closes. For the derby against Barcelona that pool is very small, which is where a resale marketplace becomes the practical route.
Metro Line 5 to Cornellà Centre, which is around ten minutes on foot from the ground and twenty-five to thirty minutes from the city centre. Rodalies commuter trains also serve Cornellà, and the airport at El Prat is about fifteen minutes away.
The Gol Sud, where the organised support and the Grada de Animació gather behind the goal. The ground was purpose-built with steep stands close to the pitch and a roof over 92.5% of the seats, so the noise from that end carries rather than escaping. The Gol Nord is the calmer alternative.
No, and they have lost two finals on penalties. Bayer Leverkusen took the 1988 UEFA Cup after Espanyol had won the first leg 3-0 at Sarrià, and Sevilla won the 2007 final 3-1 on penalties at Hampden Park after a 2-2 draw. Espanyol went through that entire 2006/07 campaign without losing a match, which no other club has managed without lifting the trophy.
A club founded in 1900 that has spent its whole existence as the alternative in its own city, playing in a purpose-built ground where the crowd stops for a minute every match to remember a captain who died at twenty-six, is a better afternoon in Barcelona than the guidebooks will tell you. 1BoxOffice has been a verified marketplace for live event tickets since 2006, with every order carrying a 150% money-back guarantee. Choose your fixture below and take a seat.
Sources: Official RCD Espanyol website at rcdespanyol.com, LaLiga, UEFA, Transfermarkt, StadiumDB, La Grada and Wikipedia.
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