Buy Real Sociedad tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into a club that has just won its first trophy in six years and turned a mediocre league campaign into a four-competition one. La Real beat Atlético Madrid on penalties in the Copa del Rey final on 18 April 2026, 2-2 after extra time and 4-3 in the shootout, at La Cartuja in Seville.
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Eighth place in La Liga would have produced nothing. The cup produced everything: a place in the Europa League league phase and a place in the Supercopa de España in the new year, where Real Madrid are the semi-final opponent. Pellegrino Matarazzo, who took over on 20 December as the third head coach of the season, begins his first full campaign with a Copa winner's medal already earned.
Mikel Oyarzabal captains a side that scored in that final and won the World Cup with Spain in July. The ground is called Anoeta again after the Reale naming deal ended in 2025. This page covers what seats cost across four competitions, which fixtures clear first, how the stadium works after the running track came out and what the squad looks like.
Real Sociedad sell to their socios first and there are a great many of them relative to a 40,000-seat ground in a city of fewer than 190,000 people. San Sebastián is small, the club belongs to it in the way Basque clubs tend to, and the season pass base absorbs most of the stadium before general sale exists.
Four competitions make that tighter rather than easier. The Basque derby against Athletic Bilbao holds the ground's attendance record and has never been obtainable through a general sale in any meaningful sense. Europa League nights add fixtures that pass holders take up at a higher rate than routine league matches, and the visits of Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid do the same.
A verified resale marketplace changes the timing rather than the supply. Pass holders who cannot travel to a Thursday night European fixture release their seat, and it appears on a rolling basis rather than in a single window that a visitor from outside Spain is unlikely to catch. For anyone building a trip to the Basque coast around a specific date, that is usually the difference between going and not.
1BoxOffice has operated as a verified secondary marketplace since 2006, which covers the 2020 Copa del Rey, the Champions League campaign of 2023/24 and the cup win in April. Listings come from sellers whose inventory is checked before it goes live, and the transaction is covered rather than left to trust between strangers.
San Sebastián is not a city you pass through by accident. People plan trips around these fixtures, and a failed ticket for a European night or a Basque derby is not something you recover from on the day.
Real Sociedad are one of the four member-owned clubs in Spain by tradition and one of the two that defined themselves for most of a century by only signing Basque players. That policy ended in 1989 but the identity it built did not, and it is the reason a city of 190,000 fills a 40,000-seat stadium.
This season adds a trophy, a European campaign and a Supercopa tie against Real Madrid. The demand drivers below follow from all of it.
The result is a ground that is difficult for the ordinary fixtures and close to impossible for four or five, in a city where visitors arrive with a reason to be there regardless of the football.
Real Sociedad price higher than most clubs of comparable size, which is a function of a small stadium, a large membership and a city with money in it. The floor at Anoeta sits above what you would pay in Vallecas or Cornellà and the ceiling for a derby or a European knockout tie is considerably higher.
Four competitions spread the range. A midweek Copa tie against lower-division opposition is the lowest-priced football at this ground all year. Real Sociedad tickets for a Europa League knockout night or the visit of Athletic Bilbao occupy the other end entirely, and the gap between them is wider than the league calendar alone would produce.
Position matters more since the renovation than it did before. Removing the running track brought the lower tiers close to the pitch, which created a genuine premium on the sides and left the ends behind the goals as the value option. The Tribuna carries the highest prices and the covered central view.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| La Liga, standard fixtures | £45 – £90 |
| La Liga, Basque derby and elite visitors | £100 – £300+ |
| Europa League, league phase | £50 – £160+ |
| Europa League, knockout rounds | £90 – £280+ |
| Copa del Rey | £35 – £120 |
| Hospitality and VIP | £300 – £700+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes, though at this club the membership question is more real than at most. Real Sociedad have a large socio base relative to a 40,000-seat stadium, and those members hold the majority of the ground across the season. General sale exists for every fixture but the pool it draws on is smaller here than at a club with more seats and fewer members.
For a routine La Liga fixture that pool is usually sufficient and a visitor can buy directly. For the Basque derby it is not, and it has not been in living memory. European nights sit somewhere in between, with availability depending heavily on the opposition and the round.
The secondary market removes the membership question entirely. A socio who cannot attend releases their seat and it becomes available to anyone, with no Spanish address, no membership number and no window to have caught. Given how much of Anoeta is held by members, that release stream is the main route in for anyone from outside Gipuzkoa.
The abono at Real Sociedad is closer to a civic subscription than a football product. Gipuzkoa is a province of around 720,000 people and a substantial share of the ones who care about football hold a seat at Anoeta, passed within families and renewed without much thought about what division the team is in or who is managing it.
The renovation complicated that for a while. Removing the running track and rebuilding the lower tiers meant relocating thousands of pass holders into a stadium with a different geometry, an exercise the club ran across two seasons. European fixtures are handled separately from the league pass, which is why the resale supply for Europa League nights behaves differently from a Saturday in November.
| Abono Area | Typical Season Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur, upper | £230 – £340 |
| Fondo Norte and Fondo Sur, lower | £290 – £420 |
| Lateral | £400 – £600 |
| Tribuna Preferente | £560 – £850 |
| Youth and senior concession bands | £80 – £260 |
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 abono at Anoeta is usually a long-standing family arrangement rather than a seasonal purchase.
Anoeta before 2019 was an athletics stadium with a football team in it, and the distance from the front row to the touchline was the single most-complained-about thing in Basque football. The renovation fixed it. The lower tiers now sit close to the pitch on all four sides and the atmosphere improved in a way that was audible from the first match back.
| Stand or Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tribuna Preferente, central | The clearest view of the match | Highest | Main stand on the halfway line, covered and elevated, with the hospitality areas and the directors' box within it. |
| Tribuna Preferente, wings | Cover at a lower price | High | Same stand, angled towards one goal. Retains the roof and most of the elevation. |
| Lateral | Value against sightline | Mid | The opposite side, facing the main stand. Comparable angle for less, which makes it the most contested area on general sale. |
| Fondo Sur | Noise and organised support | Mid to lower | Where the singing concentrates, including the Aitor Zabaleta section. Standing-style support throughout and the loudest part of the ground. |
| Fondo Norte | 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. |
| Away allocation | Travelling supporters | Set by the host | Segregated block assigned by the club and the local authority, and small in absolute terms because the stadium is not large. |
Real Sociedad's away support is drawn from Gipuzkoa and travels in numbers that reflect how much of the province follows the club rather than how big the province is. The Basque and Navarrese fixtures are short journeys and fill immediately; the European away days now return to the calendar after a season without them.
| Aspect | Detail |
|---|---|
| Typical away allocation | Around 5% of the host stadium's capacity in La Liga, adjusted by the home club and the local safety authority. UEFA applies a comparable minimum for Europa League fixtures. |
| Where you will be sitting | Upper-tier corner or end blocks at most 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 UEFA fixtures apply their own identity checks. |
| The short-haul fixtures | Bilbao is around an hour by road, Pamplona and Vitoria a little further. San Mamés and El Sadar are the away tickets that clear first among La Real's own support. |
| Getting there | San Sebastián sits on the French border with rail connections along the north coast and an airport at Hondarribia. Bilbao and Biarritz both serve as practical entry points for supporters flying in. |
The renovation narrowed the gap between the areas at Anoeta because it brought everything closer to the pitch. The choice now is mostly about how much of the singing you want directly around you and how much you want to pay for a roof.
| What You Want | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Fondo Sur, lower | Where the organised support gathers, including the section named for Aitor Zabaleta. Standing-style throughout and considerably louder since the stands were moved in. |
| View of the match | Tribuna Preferente, central blocks | Halfway line, covered and raised enough to read the shape of the game. The most complete view in the ground. |
| Family-friendly | Fondo Norte or the upper Lateral | Quieter sections with a calmer crowd and a full view across the pitch. The safest choice for a first visit with children. |
| Premium experience | Hospitality within the Tribuna Preferente | Catering, lounge access and a central covered seat, upgraded substantially during the renovation. |
| Lower-priced option | Fondo Norte upper | The bottom of the range at a club that prices above the La Liga average, and the area most likely to have inventory when the rest has gone. |
The stadium opened on 13 August 1993 with a friendly against Real Madrid that finished 2-2. It was built as a municipal multi-sport venue with a running track, held 32,000 and was disliked almost immediately by the people who had to watch football in it. The distance from the stands to the pitch was the problem, and it took twenty-four years to solve.
Construction on the renovation began in May 2017 and finished in October 2019. The track came out, the lower tiers were rebuilt close to the touchline on all four sides and capacity rose past 40,000. The cost was 78.6 million euros, met by the club, the Basque Government and the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council between them, which is the sort of funding arrangement that only happens where a club is genuinely a public institution.
The name has moved around. Reale Seguros took the naming rights in 2019 and the ground was the Reale Arena until that agreement ended after the 2024/25 season, at which point it reverted to Anoeta. Supporters had never called it anything else. Fixtures are listed on the Estadio Anoeta tickets page.
The singing section carries the name of Aitor Zabaleta, a Real Sociedad supporter who was killed outside the Vicente Calderón before a fixture against Atlético Madrid in December 1998. He was twenty-eight. The section named after him is where the noise at Anoeta comes from, and the club's cup final win over Atlético in April was not a fact that went unremarked in San Sebastián.
The record attendance is 36,730, set at a Basque derby against Athletic Bilbao in February 2020, which was also the season the club won the Copa del Rey. Anoeta is the eleventh-largest ground in Spain and by a distance the largest in Gipuzkoa.
Getting there is easy. The stadium sits about two kilometres from the centre of San Sebastián on the Urumea river, roughly a twenty-five minute walk along the water from the Parte Vieja. Anoeta station on Euskotren line E2 serves it directly, along with bus routes 17, 24, 26, 28 and 37 and the B4 night service. Driving is possible and parking is not. Block layouts are set out on the Anoeta seating plan.
Hospitality at Anoeta was rebuilt with the rest of the stadium and the facilities are better than a ground of this size would usually offer. The Tribuna Preferente houses the boxes, the lounges and the premium seating, with catering and dedicated access.
Europa League packages are a smaller pool than the league equivalent and corporate holders release them less often. 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 Preferente with lounge access before the match and at half time. | £300 – £450 |
| Hospitality with dining | Full pre-match meal, drinks throughout and a central covered seat. San Sebastián's catering standards apply and it shows. | £380 – £600 |
| Private box | Enclosed box within the main stand with hosted service, usually sold by the season rather than by the match. | £500 – £800+ |
| Basque derby and European hospitality | The same packages for Athletic Bilbao and Europa League nights, released in small numbers and priced accordingly. | £650 – £1,200+ |
The process takes a few minutes and works the same way for a league fixture as for a European night. What differs is how long the inventory lasts, and for the derby and the knockout rounds that window is short.
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 Preferente, the Lateral and the two ends before filtering on price. Since the running track came out, every area is close to the pitch, so the decision is about the crowd around you rather than about the view.
Step4
Read the listing properly
Check the block, row and any note about cover, restricted view or seating together. Anoeta sits on the Urumea and the Basque coast is wetter than the rest of Spain, so whether your row is under the roof is a practical question here rather than a theoretical one.
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. European fixtures are often issued closer to the date, which is normal rather than a problem.
For the Basque derby and the European knockout rounds, having an account ready and a stand chosen beforehand matters more than checkout speed, because those fixtures turn on whether inventory exists at the moment you look.
Anoeta is a difficult ground in any season and this one carries four competitions. The gap between a routine Sunday and the fixtures below is the widest it has been in years.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| The Basque derby against Athletic Bilbao | Two clubs built on the same philosophy, an hour apart, contesting the fixture that defines the Basque football calendar. It holds the stadium attendance record at 36,730 and it has never been available through a general sale in any real sense. |
| Europa League knockout nights | Season pass holders take up European seats at a far higher rate than league seats, which cuts resale supply for exactly the fixtures where demand is heaviest. A knockout tie against a major club is the hardest ticket of the season after the derby. |
| Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid | Three league visits that draw national interest into a ground of 40,000. Atlético now carry the additional weight of the cup final, which was settled on penalties in April. |
| Osasuna and the Navarrese fixtures | Short journeys with regional edge. The away allocation fills before it is advertised and local interest handles the rest. |
| Any Copa del Rey tie from the last sixteen onwards | La Real are the holders. A defence of the trophy at Anoeta against top-flight opposition produces demand that the round's usual profile does not predict. |
The delivery method is stated on every listing before you buy. Check it at the point of purchase rather than afterwards, particularly for a European fixture where tickets may be issued late and postal delivery would not reach you in time.
Gates open well before kick-off and the crowd arrives on foot along the river and off the Euskotren, which spreads the approach. Thirty to forty minutes ahead is enough for a league fixture. For the Basque derby or a European night, an hour gives you time to reach your block and see a ground fill that is smaller and louder than most people expect.
Entry is by scanning at the turnstile and the gate printed on your ticket corresponds to your block. Check it before you leave the centre, because doubling back around the perimeter once the crowd has built takes longer than the walk from town. Photo ID matching the booking name is worth carrying, and UEFA fixtures apply their own identity checks, so bring a passport or national card for European nights.
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. UEFA fixtures apply stricter rules on banners and flags than domestic ones.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D. |
| Founded | 7 September 1909, in San Sebastián |
| Nicknames | Txuri-Urdin, the white and blues, plus La Real and Erreala |
| Stadium | Anoeta, opened 13 August 1993 and rebuilt 2017 to 2019, capacity around 40,000 |
| Head coach | Pellegrino Matarazzo, appointed 20 December 2025 |
| Captain | Mikel Oyarzabal |
| President | Jokin Aperribay |
| Record appearances | Alberto Górriz, 599 matches |
| Record goalscorer | Jesús María Satrústegui, 162 goals |
| Competitions | La Liga, Copa del Rey, the Europa League and the Supercopa de España |
| Best league finish | Champions in 1980/81 and 1981/82 |
Real Sociedad won La Liga twice in the early 1980s with a squad drawn entirely from the Basque Country, which is the single most improbable achievement in modern Spanish football. The policy that made it improbable lasted until 1989. The history below is about what that identity built and what it cost.
For eighty years Real Sociedad recruited from a region of around three million people and competed against clubs recruiting from the world. The 1909 Copa del Rey was won under a borrowed name because the club had not yet completed its registration, which is a fitting start. The unbeaten run of 1979/80 was 32 matches long and stood as a Spanish record for decades, and it was the signal that something unusual was building.
The two league titles were won by a side built entirely within the Basque Country, and the second was followed by a European Cup semi-final against Hamburg. The 1987 Copa del Rey was settled on penalties against Atlético Madrid, which is a sentence that would be written again thirty-nine years later. The policy ended in 1989 with the signing of an Irish striker from Liverpool, a decision that divided the support and that the club has never fully stopped discussing.
The 2002/03 side came closer to a third title than anyone has since, finishing two points behind Real Madrid with Nihat and Darko Kovacevic scoring more than 40 league goals between them. Four years later the club was in the second division. The recovery was built at Zubieta, the academy that has since produced Xabi Alonso, Antoine Griezmann, Martín Zubimendi and Mikel Oyarzabal, and which remains the reason a club of this size competes at this level.
The 2020 Copa del Rey final was played in April 2021 with no supporters present, against Athletic Bilbao, and Oyarzabal scored the penalty that won it. Alguacil's six years produced that trophy, two Champions League qualifications and a European campaign that reached the last sixteen. His departure in 2025 was followed by an unsettled season with three head coaches, and it ended with a fourth Copa del Rey and a return to Europe that eighth place in the league had not earned.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberto Górriz | Defender, 1979 to 1994 | Played more matches for Real Sociedad than anyone in the club's history, across both league titles, the 1987 Copa del Rey and the European Cup semi-final. A one-club career spanning the most successful period the club has had. | 599 appearances |
| Jesús María Satrústegui | Forward, 1970s and 1980s | Scored more goals for the club than anyone before or since, leading the line through the side that finished runners-up in 1979/80 and then won the league twice. The centre-forward of the only championship-winning teams in the club's history. | 162 goals |
| Mikel Oyarzabal | Forward and captain, since 2015 | Came through Zubieta and has stayed, scoring the penalty that won the 2020 Copa del Rey, the winning goal in the Euro 2024 final and again in the 2026 Copa final. Won the World Cup with Spain in July 2026. No player in the club's history has assembled a record like it while still playing. | Two Copas del Rey, a European Championship and a World Cup |
| Xabi Alonso | Midfielder, academy to first team | Came through Zubieta and captained the side that finished runners-up in 2002/03 at twenty-one, before Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Later managed Bayer Leverkusen to an unbeaten Bundesliga title. The most decorated player the academy has produced. | Runners-up in 2002/03 before a career across three of Europe's largest clubs |
| Imanol Alguacil | Head coach, 2018 to 2025 | Took over with the club drifting and delivered the 2020 Copa del Rey, two Champions League qualifications and a last-sixteen run in Europe across more than six years. A former player and academy coach who understood exactly what the job at this club involves. | The 2020 Copa del Rey and Champions League football |
| Aitor Zabaleta | Supporter | Killed outside the Vicente Calderón before a fixture against Atlético Madrid in December 1998, aged twenty-eight. The singing section at Anoeta carries his name and has done since, which makes him part of the club's history in a way no playing record could. | The Aitor Zabaleta section at Anoeta |
Real Sociedad have won two league titles, four Copas del Rey and a Supercopa, which for a club recruiting from one Spanish province for most of its history is a remarkable return. The counts below have been cross-referenced against club publications and independent football records.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| La Liga | 2, in 1980/81 and 1981/82 |
| Copa del Rey | 4, in 1909, 1987, 2020 and 2026 |
| Supercopa de España | 1, in 1982 |
| Segunda División | Champions in 2009/10 |
| European Cup | Semi-finals in 1982/83 |
| La Liga runners-up | 3, in 1979/80, 1987/88 and 2002/03 |
The two titles came back to back and were won by squads made up entirely of Basque players, which is the entry that carries the most weight in San Sebastián. The most recent addition arrived in April, on penalties, and it is the reason this season has four competitions in it rather than two.
Real Sociedad have one rivalry defined by similarity and two others defined by specific nights. The first is with the only other club in Spain that built itself the same way. The others are with opponents who have taken things from this club and, in April, had something taken back.
The Basque derby, and the closest thing in football to a rivalry between two clubs that agree with each other. Both were built on recruiting only Basque players and Athletic still are, which gives the fixture a shared moral framework that most derbies lack and does nothing to soften it. They are an hour apart on the coast. The 2020 Copa del Rey final was contested between them, played in April 2021 in an empty stadium after both clubs asked to delay it so supporters could attend, and Real Sociedad won 1-0 through an Oyarzabal penalty. The Anoeta attendance record of 36,730 was set at this fixture in February 2020.
A fixture that carries more than football. Aitor Zabaleta, a Real Sociedad supporter, was killed outside the Vicente Calderón before a match against Atlético in December 1998, and the singing section at Anoeta has carried his name ever since. On the pitch the two have now met in two Copa del Rey finals, in 1987 and 2026, and Real Sociedad have won both on penalties. The most recent was 2-2 after extra time at La Cartuja in April, settled 4-3 in the shootout.
The obstacle that keeps arriving at the wrong moment. Real Madrid finished two points ahead of Real Sociedad to take the 2002/03 title, the closest La Real have come to a third championship, and eliminated them from the Copa del Rey at the semi-final stage in 2025, winning 5-4 on aggregate after a 4-4 second leg at the Bernabéu that went to extra time. The two are drawn together again in the Supercopa semi-final in the new year.
The tie that ended the club's most recent Champions League campaign. Real Sociedad topped a group containing Inter, Salzburg and Benfica in 2023/24 and drew Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16, losing 2-0 in Paris and 2-1 at Anoeta. Reaching the knockout rounds from that group was the achievement; the draw that followed was the reminder of where the money sits.
The opponent in the deepest European run the club has managed. Real Sociedad reached the European Cup semi-final in 1982/83 as Spanish champions and lost to Hamburg, who went on to win the competition. It remains the only time La Real have reached the last four of Europe's senior tournament and it happened with a squad recruited entirely from one region.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Sixth in La Liga on 62 points from seventeen wins, eleven draws and ten defeats, scoring 40 and conceding 37. A tight, well-organised season under Imanol Alguacil that secured European football without ever threatening the top four. The Europa League campaign ended in the knockout play-off round. |
| 2022/23 | Fourth on 71 points and a return to the Champions League for the first time in a decade. It was Alguacil's finest league season and it was built on the meanest defence outside the top three, with Alexander Sørloth and Take Kubo providing the goals that turned draws into wins. |
| 2023/24 | Sixth on 60 points from sixteen wins, twelve draws and ten defeats. The Champions League campaign was the story: La Real topped a group containing Inter, Benfica and Salzburg, then lost the round of 16 to Paris Saint-Germain across two legs. Europa League qualification followed. |
| 2024/25 | Eleventh on 46 points from thirteen wins, seven draws and eighteen defeats, the weakest league campaign in six years. Real Madrid ended a Copa run at the semi-final stage, winning 5-4 on aggregate after extra time, and Lazio eliminated La Real from the Europa League in the round of 16. Imanol Alguacil left after more than six years and Martín Zubimendi joined Arsenal for a reported £60 million. |
| 2025/26 | Eighth on 46 points from eleven wins, thirteen draws and fourteen defeats, conceding 61, the worst defensive record since 2010/11. Three head coaches took charge, with Pellegrino Matarazzo arriving on 20 December. The Copa del Rey rescued it: Atlético Madrid beaten 4-3 on penalties in Seville on 18 April after a 2-2 draw, delivering a fourth cup and a European place the league had not earned. |
Matarazzo's first full season begins with a squad that needs rebalancing rather than rebuilding. Conceding 61 goals last season was the club's worst defensive return since 2010/11, and the summer was spent on the back line rather than the front. Aritz Elustondo left for PAOK, Duje Ćaleta-Car joined Lyon and Brais Méndez went to Columbus Crew, with Jon Pacheco, Mikel Goti and Javi López returning from loan spells to compete.
What stays is the spine. Álex Remiro in goal, Igor Zubeldia and Jon Aramburu across the back, Carlos Soler and Luka Sučić in midfield and a front line of Oyarzabal, Take Kubo and Gonçalo Guedes. Oyarzabal scored fifteen league goals last season and returned from the World Cup in July as a world champion. The transfer balance came in at around 4.5 million euros positive.
| Player | Position | Role in the 2026/27 Squad |
|---|---|---|
| Álex Remiro | Goalkeeper | First choice and among the longest-serving players in the squad |
| Unai Marrero | Goalkeeper | Named man of the match in the Copa del Rey final shootout |
| Igor Zubeldia | Centre-back | Academy-developed defender and the organiser of the back line |
| Jon Pacheco | Centre-back | Returned from a loan at Alavés to compete for a starting role |
| Jon Martín | Centre-back | Academy-developed defender who established himself in the back line |
| Jon Aramburu | Right-back | Venezuela international and the established starter on the right |
| Álvaro Odriozola | Right-back | Returned to the club he came through after Real Madrid |
| Aihen Muñoz | Left-back | Academy product with more than a hundred appearances for the club |
| Javi López | Defender | Returned from a loan at Real Oviedo |
| Luken Beitia | Defender | Young centre-back promoted from Zubieta |
| Igor Zubeldia | Midfielder and centre-back | Academy-developed and used across defence and the base of midfield |
| Beñat Turrientes | Midfielder | Academy graduate operating in front of the defence |
| Carlos Soler | Midfielder | Spain international and the main creative outlet from central areas |
| Luka Sučić | Midfielder | Croatia international driving the side forward from midfield |
| Jon Gorrotxategi | Midfielder | Academy-developed midfielder competing for a starting place |
| Pablo Marín | Midfielder | Young midfielder promoted from Zubieta |
| Mikel Goti | Midfielder | Returned from a loan at Córdoba to push for minutes |
| Arsen Zakharyan | Attacking midfielder | Russia international providing creativity between the lines |
| Sergio Gómez | Wing-back | Used down the left of midfield and defence after arriving from Manchester City |
| Takefusa Kubo | Winger | Japan international and the most valuable player in the squad |
| Ander Barrenetxea | Winger | Academy product who scored inside a minute in the Copa del Rey final |
| Mikel Oyarzabal | Forward and captain | Fifteen league goals last season, scorer in the Copa final and a World Cup winner with Spain |
| Gonçalo Guedes | Forward | Portugal international signed permanently after an initial loan |
| Orri Óskarsson | Forward | Iceland international competing to lead the line |
| Jon Karrikaburu | Forward | Academy-developed striker adding depth across four competitions |
Squad numbers were not consistently published across sources at the time of writing, so the table sets out each player's role instead, which is more use when you are deciding whether a fixture is worth the journey. Zubieta continues to supply the first team, which at a club recruiting from one province is not a philosophy so much as the business model.
Four. La Liga, the Copa del Rey as holders, the Europa League league phase and the Supercopa de España in the new year. All three of those beyond the league came from winning the cup in April, because eighth place in La Liga carried no European qualification of its own.
Anoeta. Reale Seguros held the naming rights from 2019 and that agreement ended after the 2024/25 season, at which point the ground reverted to its original name. Supporters in San Sebastián called it Anoeta throughout the sponsorship anyway.
The Fondo Sur, which includes the section named after Aitor Zabaleta. The 2017 to 2019 renovation removed the athletics track and moved the stands to the touchline, which transformed the noise across the whole ground. The Fondo Norte is the calmer end behind the other goal.
It is about two kilometres from the centre along the Urumea river, roughly twenty-five minutes on foot from the Parte Vieja and worth walking. Anoeta station on Euskotren line E2 serves it directly, along with bus routes 17, 24, 26, 28 and 37 and the B4 night service.
Yes, for eighty years. The club recruited only players born or developed in the Basque Country until 1989, when John Aldridge arrived from Liverpool. Both La Liga titles, in 1980/81 and 1981/82, and the European Cup semi-final of 1982/83 were achieved under that policy.
A club that won two league titles with players from one province, plays in a ground that finally lost its running track in 2019 and has just won a cup that turned a flat season into a four-competition one, is worth a weekend on the Basque coast in its own right. 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 Real Sociedad website at realsociedad.eus, LaLiga, UEFA, Transfermarkt, StadiumDB, Iusport and Wikipedia.
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