Buy Real Sociedad vs Getafe tickets for the 2026/27 Season, with the fixture listed for Sunday 13 December 2026 at 19:00 local time in San Sebastián. Spanish kick-off slots are confirmed by the league a few weeks out and move for broadcast, so verify the time on your listing before booking travel. The hosts arrive at this one as Spanish cup holders, and their visitors have not lost here in three years.
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Anoeta holds around 40,000 after the rebuild that stripped out its athletics track, and roughly 38,000 of those seats belong to season-card holders. That ratio, rather than the profile of the opponent, is what makes Real Sociedad matchday seats harder to come by than the mid-table billing suggests.
Eighteen La Liga matches have been played between these clubs at this ground since 2004/05. Real Sociedad have won six, Getafe have won six and six have finished level. Few long-running fixtures in Spain split as evenly as this one.
Supply is the story. Around 95 per cent of Anoeta is committed to season-card holders before a fixture list is even published, and the waiting list for full socio status runs past 3,300 people. What reaches general sale is whatever those holders release, and that typically opens six to eight weeks before a match rather than months ahead.
Getafe do not travel in numbers to the Basque Country, so demand for Getafe seats in the visiting sector rarely strains the allocation. The pressure comes from the home side of the ground instead, and from the travelling neutrals that San Sebastián attracts in a way few La Liga cities do. A December weekend in a city known for its food and its coastline draws visitors who decide to take in a match once they are there.
Both clubs also carry European football this season, which compresses their domestic calendars and raises the stakes on a league Sunday. Real Sociedad qualified for the Europa League by winning the 2025/26 Copa del Rey, beating Atlético Madrid on penalties at La Cartuja in April. Getafe reached the Conference League by finishing seventh, their strongest league campaign in years.
The recent record sharpens it further. Getafe have won their last two visits to Anoeta and have taken points on three of their last six, which is not a return most visiting sides manage in this part of Spain. The fixture no longer reads as a formality for the hosts, and pricing has begun to reflect that.
Timing plays its part as well. This date falls in the congested stretch before the Spanish league's short winter break, when European commitments and a compressed fixture list leave both squads stretched and every point counts a little more. A Sunday evening slot in that window also suits visitors better than a lunchtime kick-off, which widens the pool of buyers travelling from outside the Basque Country.
Yes, though the club route is narrow. Full socio membership is closed behind a waiting list, and the RS Fan scheme that sits below it does not grant a priority purchase window ahead of general sale. Its benefits run to discounts, prize draws and a free ticket for eligible fixtures, and the six highest-demand matches of the season are excluded from that offer entirely.
General sale opens when season-card holders release their seats, usually six to eight weeks before the match. For a fixture like this one there is normally something available at that point, but the choice narrows quickly and the better locations go first. Anyone building a trip around a specific date rather than a specific fixture should not leave it to the final fortnight.
Visiting supporters go through their own club. Away allocations in Spain are handled between the two clubs and released to the visiting side's members, so a Getafe supporter outside that system has no direct route. The visiting sector at Anoeta sits in the Fondo Norte and is entered through its own gate.
The resale market covers every one of these gaps. Listings on 1BoxOffice come from season-card holders, members and hospitality holders who cannot attend, which puts seats across the whole ground rather than in one corner of it. No socio number, Spanish address or purchase history is required.
Five things move the price here: where the seat sits, how much of the release has cleared, the confirmed kick-off slot, what the fixture means to both clubs in the 2026/27 table and whether the listing carries hospitality. Face values at Anoeta generally run from around thirty euros behind the goals to seventy or so along the sides, rising for the highest-profile visitors. Resale sits above that because the pool of seats in circulation is small rather than because the fixture is a marquee one.
| Ticket Type | Resale Price Range | Best For | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper areas behind the goals | £55 – £120 | Buyers prioritising entry over sightline | End-on and high, but the closest thing to a value option at this ground |
| Lower areas behind the goals | £70 – £150 | Supporters who want to be near the noise | Much closer to the pitch since the track came out |
| Preferencia, side seating | £110 – £210 | First-time visitors and couples | Full side view facing the main stand |
| Tribuna, central | £170 – £330 | Buyers who want the halfway line | Main stand, and the first band of seats to clear |
| Hospitality and premium | £300 – £700+ | Corporate guests and special occasions | Catering and lounge access vary by package, so read the inclusions |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift closer to the match.
One pattern is specific to a ground this heavily subscribed. Because almost all inventory originates from released season cards rather than a club allocation, listings appear in waves rather than steadily, and each wave tends to be priced by whoever is releasing. That produces more variation between similar seats than you would see at a stadium with open general sale, which makes comparing two listings in the same area worth the extra minute.
The rebuild completed in 2019 changed this ground fundamentally. Removing the athletics track and dropping new rows into the sides brought the stands in close, and a new end stand replaced the old open bank behind one goal. What was once a distant, exposed athletics bowl now works as a football stadium, and the difference is most obvious in the lower rows. The Anoeta seating plan is worth two minutes before you commit, because the sector numbering does not follow an obvious sequence.
The Fondo Sur holds the Grada Aitor Zabaleta, the home singing section named after a supporter killed outside an away ground in 1998, and more than 2,000 fans stand through the match there. The Fondo Norte at the opposite end carries the visiting sector. Further venue detail sits on the San Sebastián stadium guide if you want the full picture first.
| Area | What It Suits | Pricing Bracket | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fondo Sur, Grada Aitor Zabaleta | Supporters who want the singing section | Lower | Standing for most of the match and rarely released in volume |
| Fondo Sur, general seating | Buyers who want atmosphere without the centre of it | Lower | Behind the goal at the home end, with the noise alongside you |
| Preferencia | Neutrals and first-time visitors | Mid | Side view opposite the main stand with a clean look at both boxes |
| Tribuna, wings | Families and small groups | Mid to upper | Covered, with shorter concourse queues than the ends |
| Tribuna, central | Buyers who want the classic view | Upper | Includes the premium band, so read the listing inclusions carefully |
| Fondo Norte, visiting sector | Getafe supporters | Set by the visiting club | Entered through its own gate and segregated from the home areas |
The two ends read differently from each other. The Fondo Sur is where the organised support gathers and where flags and drums sit through the ninety minutes, and it is the end that carries the ground. The Fondo Norte is quieter on the home side but shares its structure with the visiting sector, which gives it a split character that some buyers enjoy and others would rather avoid. Neither end is a poor seat since the rebuild, which is a sentence nobody could have written about the old Anoeta.
Neutral buyers are usually best served in the Preferencia, which puts you level with play without sitting inside either end. Cover is worth thinking about in December: San Sebastián sits on the Bay of Biscay and gets genuine Atlantic weather, and the roof does not reach every row of every stand. If you are travelling with children or want a quieter ninety minutes, the wings of the main stand are the sensible compromise.
Hospitality at Anoeta runs through the main stand, where the rebuild added premium areas alongside the media and directors' facilities. As with the general bowl, much of it is committed on a seasonal basis, which is why single-match hospitality tends to reach the resale market rather than the club's own counter. A holder who cannot make a December Sunday releases that fixture and keeps the rest.
| Hospitality Option | Typical Buyer | Main Appeal |
|---|---|---|
| Premium seat with lounge access | Individual guests and pairs | Central main-stand seating with an indoor area before the match and at half time |
| Private box | Companies entertaining clients | Enclosed space with dedicated service and a private viewing position |
| Club-level shared table | Smaller groups without a full box | Seated dining in a members' area with a premium seat attached |
| Premium group package | Celebrations and corporate outings | Blocks of adjacent premium seats released together for one fixture |
In San Sebastián the food argument carries more weight than it does elsewhere. This is a city with an unusual concentration of celebrated restaurants and a pintxo culture that visitors plan trips around, so a hospitality package competes with what is available a short walk away rather than with a standard stadium kiosk. Several buyers will be better served eating in the Parte Vieja and taking a good seat in the bowl.
Where hospitality does earn its price is weather and time. An indoor area matters more on a wet December evening on the Atlantic coast than it does in Seville in April, and lounge access removes the interval queue entirely. Read the inclusions line by line, and confirm the opening time on the listing if you want the full benefit of it.
Spanish clubs have moved steadily to digital ticketing, and most listings for a La Liga fixture now arrive electronically. The seller states the method on the listing before you pay, and the notes are where the detail that matters sits.
| Delivery Type | What to Confirm |
|---|---|
| Mobile transfer | That you can receive the transfer on the phone you will carry, and that the battery will last the return journey |
| E-ticket download | That the file reaches you before you travel, and that you save it offline rather than relying on signal at the gate |
| Courier despatch | The despatch window against your travel dates, and an address where someone can sign |
| Collection in San Sebastián | The collection point, its opening hours and the identification you need to present |
Carry photo identification whichever method applies. Spanish grounds are less strict than Italian ones about matching a name to a document, but bag searches at the perimeter are routine and identification is inspected where a seat originated from a member's card. Travel light: there is no left-luggage facility at the stadium.
Arriving early pays off on a December evening here. Gates open well ahead of kick-off, the concourses were reworked as part of the rebuild and the shelter inside is a good deal better than standing in Atlantic weather on the approach. Confirm the opening time on your listing or the fixture information if you want to time it precisely.
Two points specific to Anoeta. Your ticket directs you to a numbered gate on the perimeter, and the complex is large enough that entering at the wrong one means walking most of the way round. And if your seats arrive as a downloadable file, save an offline copy, because signal inside a full stadium is unreliable everywhere and this one is no exception.
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Step1
Start from this fixture
Begin here rather than with a general search, so the listings you see are scoped to the December date in San Sebastián and not to the return meeting in Madrid.
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Set up your account
You can create an account before or at the payment stage. Doing it first means your details are saved when a listing you want appears, which matters where inventory arrives in waves.
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Filter by quantity first
Set the number of seats before you filter by price. Released season cards come in fixed groupings, so a pair and a four return very different results.
Step4
Match the sector to the stand
Cross-reference the sector on the listing against the stadium plan so you know whether you are behind a goal, along a side or in the main stand, and which gate you enter by.
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Read the listing notes
Notes cover restricted views, cover from the weather, whether seats are together, hospitality inclusions and any identification requirements. A listing with no notes is a listing with nothing unusual attached.
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Confirm the delivery method
The method appears before payment. If you are flying in, favour a digital method over a courier despatch so nothing depends on being at a home address.
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Complete the payment
Payment is encrypted and the total shown at the final screen is the total charged. Your confirmation email arrives immediately afterwards.
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Follow your order through
Use the track order page to watch the status from confirmation to delivery, and keep your reference number to hand until the seats arrive.
Value at Anoeta comes from watching the release pattern and moving when a wave lands. These five habits make the difference.
San Sebastián is a straightforward trip with an airport of its own at Hondarribia, Bilbao an hour away by road and Biarritz just across the French border. Overseas buyers should favour mobile transfer or e-ticket delivery, since both reach you wherever you are staying rather than at a fixed address. If you want seats together, say so at the point of purchase: sellers list adjacent seats as a set, and a request made afterwards cannot merge two separate listings.
Reaching the ground is easy once you are in the city. Anoeta station on the Euskotren line sits directly outside the stadium, the tram stops alongside it, and the walk from the Parte Vieja along the Urumea takes twenty-five to thirty minutes and is pleasant in decent weather. Drivers come off the GI-20 at junction 7, though parking at the complex is limited and street parking around it fills early. Given the tram runs from the centre in a quarter of an hour, driving is rarely the sensible call.
If your trip covers both meetings, the return fixture is played in the Madrid suburbs later in the season. Seats for the Madrid leg of the pairing are listed separately and follow a different pricing pattern.
That ground is a smaller, tighter venue than Anoeta with its own sector logic, and the atmosphere works differently in a stadium of that size. The Coliseum Alfonso Pérez guide is the place to start if Madrid is on your itinerary.
Getafe reached La Liga in 2004 and their first visit to San Sebastián came that December. Almost nothing about the two clubs matches: one is a Basque institution with a century of history and a policy of building from its own region, the other a southern Madrid club founded in its modern form in 1983 that has spent two decades proving that a small budget and a hard defensive shape travel further than anyone expects. The fixture they produce is one of the most evenly balanced in the Spanish top flight.
Eighteen meetings at this ground have produced six wins each and six draws, with the goals at 23 to 19. Nine of the eighteen finished with fewer than three goals in them and only one has ever produced more than three. Real Sociedad have kept seven clean sheets here and Getafe five, and three matches finished goalless. It is a fixture that resolves itself in the last twenty minutes or not at all.
What makes the fixture distinctive is how little either side has managed to impose on it. Getafe's longest run here is three straight wins between 2014 and 2018, and Real Sociedad have never managed more than two in a row, so the goals have stayed within a handful of each other across more than twenty years. Getafe's recent run has tilted the recent form without moving the overall ledger, and a rebuilt stadium that is far louder than the old athletics bowl has not changed the pattern either.
The figures below cover every La Liga meeting between the clubs at Anoeta with Real Sociedad as hosts, from 2004/05 through 2025/26. Goals are given with Real Sociedad first.
| Metric | Total |
|---|---|
| Matches played | 18 |
| Real Sociedad wins | 6 |
| Getafe wins | 6 |
| Draws | 6 |
| Real Sociedad goals | 23 |
| Getafe goals | 19 |
| Biggest Real Sociedad win | 3-0 |
| Biggest Getafe win | 0-3 |
| First La Liga meeting in scope | 19 December 2004 |
| Most recent meeting in scope | 22 April 2026 |
Figures calculated from the match-by-match record below. Totals exclude cup ties and all meetings played in Madrid.
All 18 La Liga fixtures between the sides at Anoeta, newest first, with the Real Sociedad score given first.
| Date | Score |
|---|---|
| 22 Apr 2026 | 0-1 |
| 26 Jan 2025 | 0-3 |
| 24 Sep 2023 | 4-3 |
| 08 Apr 2023 | 2-0 |
| 23 Jan 2022 | 0-0 |
| 03 Oct 2020 | 3-0 |
| 06 Oct 2019 | 1-2 |
| 28 Apr 2019 | 2-1 |
| 17 Mar 2018 | 1-2 |
| 21 Apr 2016 | 1-2 |
| 20 Oct 2014 | 1-2 |
| 17 Aug 2013 | 2-0 |
| 08 Dec 2012 | 1-1 |
| 23 Oct 2011 | 0-0 |
| 21 May 2011 | 1-1 |
| 03 Dec 2006 | 0-0 |
| 27 Oct 2005 | 3-0 |
| 19 Dec 2004 | 1-1 |
Every result verified against two independent sources: Transfermarkt match archives and the openfootball La Liga datasets, with league results grids used to confirm the five fixtures before 2012/13 and ESPN for the most recent meeting.
No. Full membership is closed behind a waiting list and the entry-level scheme gives no priority window, so the resale market is the practical route for most visitors.
Seats enter circulation once season-card holders release them, which usually starts six to eight weeks out. Listings then arrive in waves rather than steadily.
In the visiting sector within the Fondo Norte, at the opposite end from the home singing section, with its own gate on the perimeter.
The local train stops directly outside the ground and the tram runs alongside it. From the old town the riverside walk takes about half an hour.
Most listings are digital, arriving as a mobile transfer or a downloadable file. Both reach you wherever you are staying, so nothing depends on a home address.
Sources: Real Sociedad official club and stadium information, La Liga and Copa del Rey competition records, Transfermarkt match archives, the openfootball La Liga datasets, ESPN match reports, published league results grids, Football Ground Guide and Matchday Guide venue data.