The Coliseum Burgos, formerly named as Plaza de Toros de Burgos, is an

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mainly used as

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located in

Burgos Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos. Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence o ...

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History

Plaza de Toros de Burgos (1967–2015)

Built between 1966 and 1967, the bullring was inaugurated on 28 June 1967 with a corrida by Jaime Ostos,

El Cordobés Manuel Benítez Pérez (born 4 May 1936), more commonly known as ''El Cordobés'' (The Cordovan), is a Spanish bullfighter, matador, and actor active in the 1960s who brought an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style to the bullring. Career ...

and Tinín. In 1975, the bullring hosted the first

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festival in Spain, known as ''La Cochambre'', including performances of several Spanish bands. Its façade had three big doors and a bullring was able for a capacity for 12,277 spectators.

Coliseum Burgos (2015–present)

In 2013, mayor Javier Lacalle announced the intention of building a new indoor arena due to the risk of collapse of the bullring, but due to its high costs, the solution was to integrally renovate the bullring and to add a roof. The renovation finished in 2015 and the arena was re-inaugurated on 27 June 2015 with the first corrida of the 2015 local season, with

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Enrique Ponce,

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and Alejandro Talavante. On 18 August 2015, the Spain national team played its inaugural match in the arena. It was a friendly game against

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. One year later, Spain would play again in the Coliseum, this time against

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. In 2017, after the promotion of local basketball club

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to the Spanish top league, it started to play their home matches at the Coliseum. The first official match was played on 1 October 2017 and ended with a loss of the host team against

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by 65–81, in front of 8,817 spectators. On 26 November 2017, the arena hosted the 2019 World Cup qualifier match between

and European champions

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, where the locals won by 92–84.

Attendances

This is a list of games attendances of

at Coliseum Burgos.

References

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