Multiusos Estadio de San Lazaro

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Multiusos Estadio de San Lazaro is a multi-use stadium in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of SD Compostela. It has a capacity of 12,000 and the pitch dimensions are 107 x 68 metres.

Formed in 1962, SD Compostela played their first season at Estadio da Residencia in the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela whilst work was completed on their first permanent ground, Estadio Municipal de Santa Isabel. Work was completed in time for the 1963-64 season, and on 22 September 1963, SD Compostela played their first match at the new stadium. It was a basic enclosure and lacked a covered stand until 1969, when a tribune was erected and floodlights installed at a cost of 1 million pesetas. SD Compostela continued to use the ground for first team fixtures until the end of the 1993 season. Their reserve team, Compostela B, played on at Santa Isabel until early 2003, when the ground was finally demolished and replaced with a Municipal Sports Centre that bears the name of Santa Isabel.

Work started on the Multiusos de San Lázaro in 1991. Situated in the eastern suburb of San Lazaro, the stadium is a multi-purpose arena, used primarily for the football matches of its resident clubs, SD Compostela and Ciudad Santiago. The stadium is oval in shape and has terracotta coloured roof that rises on the west side to incorporate the directors seating and press facilities on a second tier. The pitch is surround by a 400m athletics track, which is relatively uncommon in Spanish stadiums. The majority of the 12,000 seats are incorporated on a single, covered tier.

The inaugural match took place on 24 June 1993, when a four-way tournament was staged, featuring Deportivo La Coruna, CD Tenerife, CA River Plate and Sao Paulo FC. Deportivo La Coruna and River Plate played in the first match and Bebeto had the honour of scoring the first goal.