Buy Getafe vs Racing Santander tickets for Sunday 23 August 2026 and you are buying into the most supply-constrained fixture in LaLiga, for reasons that have nothing to do with glamour. Kick-off is 19:30 at the Estadio Coliseum on jornada two. The ground is a building site.
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The number that governs everything here is roughly 10,000. That is the working capacity of the Coliseum while a full rebuild runs, down from 16,500 before the diggers arrived. Anyone weighing up Getafe CF tickets is competing for a ground barely half the size it will be in 2027.
Then comes the sentence that decides whether you can buy at all. Getafe stated in their 2026/27 purchase conditions that no new season tickets would be issued this season because of the works. Every abono has been personal and non-transferable since 2025/26. This page explains what that leaves.
The rebuild started in June 2025 and runs to late 2027, roughly 28 to 30 months of work costing near 50 million euros, most of it drawn from LaLiga's central investment fund. The finished Coliseum will be a closed ring of about 18,500 seats with a full roof, filled corners and 69 boxes.
None of that helps you on 23 August. The upper tier of the Fondo Sur went first, then half the Lateral upper tier, then the Fondo Norte upper tier by March 2026. For 2026/27 the club confirmed two things that matter more than any of the renders.
The Tribuna is gone. Getafe wrote that the main stand would be demolished and that its season ticket holders would be affected, forcing everyone in Tribuna Alta and Tribuna Baja to pick a new seat somewhere else in the ground. That stand held the covered seating, the boxes and the anteboxes.
There is also no roof anywhere. The club stated plainly that no stand would have a cover for much of the season and that the stadium would be completely uncovered. For a 19:30 kick-off in Getafe in late August, that is a practical warning rather than a detail.
Attendance last season looked bleak on paper and the reason is mechanical. Getafe averaged 8,196 across 19 home league matches in 2025/26, the lowest in LaLiga. That is roughly 75 per cent of a bowl that started near 11,000 and shrank as the season went on, so it reflects a shortage of seats rather than a shortage of interest.
One honest counterweight that cuts the other way from most pages in this batch. Getafe is the lowest-priced club in LaLiga: a Fondos season ticket costs 330 euros for 19 league matches plus Copa del Rey ties, under 18 euros a game, against 1,324 euros for the average Real Madrid equivalent. Resale here will sit far above that arithmetic because the seats barely exist. Understand what you are paying for before you pay it.
This is the hardest question on any page in this series. The honest answer is a heavily qualified one. Getafe published binding purchase conditions stating that no new abonados would be registered during 2026/27 because of the rebuild. The campaign was renewals only, with even renewals rationed.
The mechanics show how tight it was. Phase one ran from 6 to 12 July for every zone except the Tribuna, with seats assigned automatically and a waiting list ordered by seniority where there were not enough. Phase two was reserved for displaced Tribuna holders picking any free seat left in the ground, with a third phase for the waiting list only if anything remained.
Transfer is prohibited outright. Since 2025/26 every abono at Getafe has been personal and non-transferable, with the club stating that passing or selling it to a third party is forbidden. Its internal regulations classify a paid transfer as a serious offence carrying a stadium ban. The sanction bands run from one month to five years depending on severity.
The club has enforced it publicly, saying it had detected this practice, opened disciplinary files and that the process could end in expulsion as an abonado. There is no exchange, no seat-release scheme and no sanctioned resale route.
What that leaves is a narrow market. Any seat reaching you comes from outside the club's own machinery, so read the delivery note with more care than usual and satisfy yourself the ticket will actually open a turnstile in your hands.
Two timing facts worth knowing. As of mid-August the club's own tickets page showed nothing on sale for this fixture. And Getafe host a Conference League tie at the Coliseum three days earlier on Thursday 20 August, sold to abonados only at 20 euros, online only, with no box office sales on the day.
Five things move the number, though here they are unusually lopsided. Supply leads, because the ground is roughly 10,000 seats and closed to new members. Then the transfer question, which decides whether a listing can legitimately reach you.
Third is zone, though the spread at Getafe is narrow by LaLiga standards. Fourth is the calendar, with the Conference League tie three days earlier pulling on the same small pool of people. Fifth is whether a listing is priced against face value or against scarcity. On this fixture it will be the second.
Getafe run no match-category system. There is no A, B and C tier, no high and low demand banding and no dynamic engine. Pricing is by zone and flat across opponents, so a newly promoted visitor carries no premium in the club's own grid. The only single-match price the club has published for 2026/27 is the 20 euros charged for the Conference League tie.
| Ticket Type | Resale Price Range | Best For | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fondos, upper | £60 – £140 | Buyers who want the lowest entry point | Behind a goal. The Fondos season ticket is €330 adult, €160 for under-14s, so face value is a fraction of any resale figure |
| Fondos, lower | £80 – £180 | Closer to the pitch at the ends | Part of the Fondo Sur is out of use as temporary dressing-room access, so the sellable area is smaller than the plan suggests |
| Fondo Joven | £60 – £130 | Supporters born between 1996 and 2012 | A dedicated age-banded season ticket at €250. Sold as an abono rather than by the match, so it should not appear on resale |
| Lateral, upper | £95 – £200 | A side-on view of the whole pitch | Lateral Alta was among the areas due to be ready for the season start. The Lateral season ticket is €350 adult, €220 child |
| Lateral, lower | £120 – £260 | The closest thing to a main-stand seat this season | With the Tribuna demolished, this is the best remaining position in the ground |
| Hospitality | Not available | Corporate guests | The boxes and anteboxes sat in the Tribuna, which no longer exists. Getafe publish no hospitality range and list no premium products for this season |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift closer to the match.
No booking fee is published and no senior rate exists in the published grid. Prices were held flat from 2025/26. Across LaLiga as a whole Getafe carry the lowest average season ticket in the division at around 310 euros.
This is the table most listings will not give you. On a half-built ground it decides whether a seat is real. The plan the club published in 2024 shows a stadium that no longer exists. Treat any diagram older than this summer as unreliable.
| Stand | Status for 2026/27 | What It Means for a Buyer |
|---|---|---|
| Tribuna, Alta and Baja | Demolished | Gone. Displaced holders were moved into other stands in a dedicated renewal phase. Any listing naming the Tribuna is wrong |
| Palco and Antepalco | Demolished with the Tribuna | The boxes and their access gate sat in the main stand, so no box product exists at the Coliseum this season |
| Fondo Norte | Upper tier demolished March 2026 | This is where the visiting sector historically sat, on its own gate. See the away section below |
| Fondo Sur | Upper tier demolished, part of the lower tier out of use | A section is being used as temporary access to the dressing rooms, so the sellable area is reduced further |
| Lateral, Alta and Baja | In use, with Lateral Alta due to be ready for the season start | The most substantial remaining seating and the closest thing to a premium position this season |
| Roof | None on any stand for much of the season | The club has said the ground will be completely uncovered. Plan for sun and weather in every zone |
Access points have changed too. The club confirmed in August that the works had altered the entrances and relocated seats around the ground, then held a training session open to abonados on 18 August so people could learn the new layout.
The box offices have moved as well. From 1 June the old Coliseum windows closed and counter service shifted to the plaza behind the club offices on calle Agustina de Aragón, weekdays from 09:30 to 19:30.
The ground opened in 1998 and belongs to the Ayuntamiento de Getafe, with the club running it under a 40-year concession signed in 2022. It carried the name Coliseum Alfonso Pérez until October 2023, when the council removed the former player's name after remarks he made about women's football. The club now calls it simply the Estadio Coliseum, with no naming-rights sponsor attached.
Zone names are Spanish and follow the ends and sides rather than compass-and-ring combinations. Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur are the ends, the Lateral is the long side, with each splitting into Alta and Baja. Venue background sits on the Estadio Coliseum tickets page.
| Area | What It Suits | Pricing Bracket | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lateral Baja | Anyone who wants the best view left in the ground | Highest available | Pitch-level on the long side. With the Tribuna demolished this replaces the main stand as the premium position |
| Lateral Alta | A full view of the shape of the game | Upper mid | Higher on the same side, listed among the areas due to be complete for the season start |
| Fondo Norte | Value-focused buyers | Mid to low | The north end, upper tier demolished. Historically the location of the visiting sector and its own gate |
| Fondo Sur | Buyers who want the ends | Mid to low | The south end, reduced twice over. Part of the lower tier is closed for dressing-room access |
| Fondo Azulón | Getafe's organised support | Season ticket only | Created in 2017 by merging the club's two main supporter groups. Sold as its own abono with conditions attached, not as a general zone |
| Zona Visitante | Supporters travelling with Racing | Not issued | The 843-seat away sector described in the club's filed regulations has not been made available to visiting clubs during the works |
If you are neutral or visiting Getafe for the first time, the Lateral is the target and the choice between Alta and Baja is the only real decision. Both faced the demolished Tribuna, so the view is unobstructed in a way it will not be once the new ring closes. Block-level layout, with the caveat that published plans predate the demolition, is set out on the Coliseum seating plan.
Getafe moved to digital entry ahead of most of their peers. The abono exists as a physical card, as a QR in the club app or website profile that saves to a phone wallet, plus an NFC credential since October 2025 that you tap against a reader on top of the turnstile. Single-match tickets bought at the window can also be emailed for wallet download.
| Delivery Type | What to Confirm |
|---|---|
| Anything described as a season ticket | That you understand the club's position. Every abono is personal and non-transferable, with the club having opened disciplinary files over transfers, so establish exactly how the seller intends this to work |
| Digital ticket or wallet pass | Which format arrives and whether it scans as NFC or as a QR code. Both are in use at the Coliseum and the reader sits on top of the turnstile rather than in front of it |
| Anything naming the Tribuna, a box or an antebox | Do not proceed. That stand was demolished for this season, so no such seat exists |
| Collection in Getafe | The location. The old stadium windows closed on 1 June and counter service moved behind the club offices on calle Agustina de Aragón, weekdays only |
Carry photo identification. The ground regulations oblige spectators to produce their access title on demand to police or club staff, plus to accept searches and camera surveillance. For the open training the club required an abono in physical or digital form as an absolute condition of entry.
The prohibited list is set out in the filed regulations. Weapons, flares, firecrackers, explosives, inflammable or corrosive products, alcohol and drugs are all refused. So is any banner not authorised in advance by the club and the security coordinator with the required fireproof certification.
Alcohol is banned both at the gate and inside the ground, along with smoking and vaping. No bag dimension is published, no water policy is published and no gate opening time is published, so travel light, arrive early and expect a search. For high-risk fixtures the club sells nothing at the ground on the day.
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Step1
Open the fixture page
Confirm the date reads Sunday 23 August 2026 with a 19:30 kick-off. Getafe play a European tie at the same ground on the Thursday before, so work from the date and the hour together.
Step2
Set up your account first
You can create an account in under a minute. Saved details shorten anything that has to be completed in a name, which on this fixture is the slowest part of the process.
Step3
Understand the transfer position before anything else
Getafe issued no new season tickets this year and treat transfers as a disciplinary matter. Ask the seller directly how the ticket reaches you and how it will scan, then decide.
Step4
Check the stand still exists
The Tribuna, the boxes and two upper tiers have been demolished. A listing naming any of them is working from a plan that is out of date, which tells you something about the listing.
Step5
Weigh the price against face value
A Fondos season ticket covers 19 league matches for 330 euros. That is the arithmetic any resale figure sits against. The gap is a scarcity premium rather than a demand premium.
Step6
Confirm the total
The figure on the listing card becomes a final price once fees and delivery are applied. Review the full breakdown on the summary screen before you commit.
Step7
Complete payment
Pay through the secure gateway. Your confirmation arrives by email immediately, restating the delivery method so you know what is coming and roughly when.
Step8
Follow the order through
Use track order to watch progress from confirmation to delivery. Worth doing early at a ground running at roughly 10,000 seats with no general sale behind it.
This is the section Racing fans need and it is not good news. The club's filed ground regulations describe an away sector of 843 seats in the Fondo Norte with its own gate, its own bar and its own facilities. During the works that sector has not been made available.
Three visiting clubs have said so publicly. Sevilla told their supporters that Getafe were not making tickets available in the visiting sector because capacity was limited by the works. Athletic Club quoted the circular Getafe sent to every LaLiga club, stating that no visiting-fan tickets of any kind could be provided. Betis were left in the same position in February.
Racing had published nothing about an away allocation for this fixture as of mid-August. Their news feed carries no travel-ticket item for Getafe, which is consistent with there being nothing to sell.
The scale of what is being turned away is the point. Racing averaged 21,090 at the Estadio El Sardinero last season, third highest in the second tier, at roughly 94 per cent of capacity. They renewed more than 17,700 season tickets against an 18,500 cap for their return to LaLiga, with their opening home match selling out five days early.
There is precedent for how hard this fixture pulls. When these clubs met at the Coliseum in the Copa del Rey semi-final of February 2008, Racing announced that the away allocation had sold out on the first afternoon it went on sale. That was eighteen years ago, but it tells you what a full allocation would do now.
If you are travelling in Racing colours, treat the away end as unavailable rather than undetermined, check with your own club before booking anything. The ground regulations require home and visiting supporters to be separated. Buying into a home area is not a workaround.
Getafe in late August is hot. This year there is nowhere to hide from it. The climate averages for the Getafe weather station put the August daily maximum at 32.5 degrees against a monthly mean of 25.4. A 19:30 start means the first half is played in the tail of the afternoon.
Normally the Tribuna would offer shade. It has been demolished, with the club stating that no stand will have a cover for much of the season. There is no shaded option to pay extra for, which changes how you should think about seat choice on this fixture.
The club publishes no water policy. Its prohibited list covers alcohol, drugs, flares and weapons but says nothing about bottles or containers, so there is no published rule either permitting or banning what you might want to bring. Ask at the gate rather than assuming.
The metro station changed name for exactly this reason. On 3 August 2026 the Comunidad de Madrid renamed the Line 12 stop Los Espartales as Los Espartales Coliseum, timed to the start of the football season, with Getafe decoration going in around the access stairs. It carries more than 1.7 million passengers a year and sits about ten minutes on foot from the ground.
Line 12 is the catch. It is a circle line running outside Madrid proper through the southern towns, so you cannot ride it in from the centre. Change at Puerta del Sur for Line 10, or at El Casar for the suburban network.
Suburban rail is often the better route. Cercanías C-3 runs from Chamartín through Sol and Atocha to El Casar, which interchanges with Line 12 one stop from the ground. C-4 calls at Las Margaritas Universidad. Both serve all three central Madrid stations, so it is a single ride from either mainline terminus.
Buses 448, 488 and the N805 night service stop on Avenida Rigoberta Menchú beside the ground, with the club also listing the 443 from Plaza Elíptica. The night bus matters for a Sunday match finishing around 21:20. Getafe run a low emission zone covering the centre and San Isidro, a different part of town from the stadium, though drivers should check rather than assume.
Coming from Santander is a serious journey. It is around 339 kilometres, roughly four and a quarter hours on the Alvia to Madrid Chamartín, closer to six by coach. A same-day return on a Sunday evening is difficult, so travelling numbers here are governed by more than enthusiasm. Anyone following the tie the other way can look at the El Sardinero seating plan.
Racing de Santander have not played a LaLiga match at this ground since 1 May 2012. They were relegated at the end of that season, went down again the following year, then spent six seasons in the third tier. In January 2014 their players refused to take the field for a Copa quarter-final after seven months without wages, with some staff a year unpaid.
The recovery took a decade. Sebastián Ceria, an Argentine mathematician, took majority control in 2023 and absorbed roughly 26 million euros of debt. Racing sealed promotion on 16 May 2026 by beating Valladolid 4-1 with two matchdays to spare, then confirmed the Segunda title on the final day.
Getafe arrive from the other direction. They finished seventh in 2025/26 and qualified for the Conference League play-off round, where they face Partizan over two legs on 20 and 27 August. They are the only Spanish club in that qualifying round, with the tie sitting either side of this fixture.
Honours are thin on both sides. Getafe have never won a major trophy, though they lost the Copa del Rey final in consecutive years to Sevilla in 2007 and Valencia in 2008 and reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals in 2008. Racing were founder members of LaLiga in 1928/29, finished runners-up in 1930/31, then earned their first European campaign by finishing sixth in 2007/08. Their best Copa runs are two semi-finals.
One of those semi-finals was against Getafe. In February and March 2008 the clubs met over two legs, Getafe winning 3-1 at the Coliseum and drawing 1-1 in Santander to reach the final. That tie sits outside the league record below but it is the last time this fixture carried real weight.
Every figure below covers LaLiga meetings at the Coliseum with Getafe as hosts. Eight matches qualify and the record is complete rather than truncated, because the clubs shared the top flight for exactly eight seasons: Getafe reached LaLiga in 2004 and Racing were relegated in 2012. The 2008 Copa del Rey semi-final, all fixtures in Santander and every second-tier season are excluded.
| Metric | Total |
|---|---|
| Matches played | 8 |
| Getafe wins | 3 |
| Racing wins | 3 |
| Draws | 2 |
| Getafe goals | 7 |
| Racing goals | 6 |
| Biggest Getafe win | 2-0 |
| Biggest Racing win | 1-2 |
| First meeting here | 22 December 2004 |
| Most recent meeting here | 1 May 2012 |
Totals calculated from the match-by-match record below, with every scoreline verified against independent per-round league records rather than against a head-to-head aggregator.
Newest first, with Getafe shown first in every scoreline. No Venue column is needed, because every match in scope was played at the same ground.
| Date | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 May 2012 | 1-1 |
| 20 Feb 2011 | 0-1 |
| 31 Jan 2010 | 0-0 |
| 18 Jan 2009 | 0-1 |
| 16 Mar 2008 | 2-1 |
| 10 Sep 2006 | 1-0 |
| 11 Dec 2005 | 1-2 |
| 22 Dec 2004 | 2-0 |
Two notes on the data. The May 2012 match was jornada 20 played out of sequence, because a players' strike pushed the opening round of that season into January and the calendar was reordered around it. Attendance was not published for any of the eight, so none is quoted here rather than estimated.
The Coliseum is being rebuilt. Working capacity is around 10,000 against 16,500 before the works, with Getafe stating that no new season tickets would be issued for 2026/27.
Not during the works. Sevilla, Athletic Club and Betis all told their supporters that Getafe were providing no visiting-fan tickets because of the rebuild. Racing have announced nothing.
Not through the club. Every abono has been personal and non-transferable since 2025/26, with Getafe opening disciplinary files over transfers and sanctions running up to a five-year ban.
The Lateral, plus reduced Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur. The Tribuna and its boxes were demolished for this season. No stand has a roof.
Metro Line 12 to Los Espartales Coliseum, renamed in August 2026 for the stadium. From central Madrid take Cercanías C-3 to El Casar and change, or C-4 to Las Margaritas Universidad.
Sources: LaLiga fixture, ticketing and attendance publications; Getafe CF official club ticketing, season ticket campaign, purchase condition, stadium and filed spectator regulation pages; Real Racing Club season ticket and attendance information, Comunidad de Madrid transport releases and Spanish government anti-violence commission statements.