La Liga
First home match 23–24.08
Last season
17th place — stayed up on the final matchday
Stadium
El Sadar — approx. 23,500
New coach
Luis Miguel Ramis — since 10.06
About the stadium
El Sadar opened on 2 September 1967 and took its name from the river that flows beside it. Fifty-two years later, in February 2019, something happened here that almost never happens anywhere: the club's members voted on the future of their home — 90.37% in favor of a thorough renovation — and chose the plan called 'The Red Wall'. Work began in June of that year, and the stadium that emerged is a single continuous bowl with closed corners, a new roof spread over all the stands, and a safe-standing area of about 1,200 seats. The design intent was declared upfront and isn't hidden: bring the crowd closer to the pitch and tighten the perimeter — so the noise stays inside. In 2022 El Sadar was chosen as the best renovated stadium in the world of 2021. Capacity today is about 23,500, and last season saw a record attendance here since the renovation. Osasuna, in Basque, means health and resilience.
FAQ
How do you buy tickets for an Osasuna match?
Tickets for an Osasuna match are sold only on the club's website, first to members and then to the general public. There's no phone channel and no agency. For every match a priority window of about three days opens first for club members and holders of the 'Soy Rojill@' card, and only afterwards does sale open to the general public, in the morning at 09:30, with a cap of six tickets per purchase. The stadium box office opens on matchday, about two hours before kickoff. The problem: Osasuna is a club owned by its members, it has 20,100 season-ticket holders for the 2026/27 season, over 99% of whom renewed, and only 40 new spots opened up from the waiting list in total — meaning the stadium is full before sales even begin. The door that does open is called 'seat release': a season-ticket holder who isn't coming to a match releases their seat via the members' area, and the club puts it up for public sale — sometimes as late as an hour before kickoff. The practical effect is that inventory appears late and unpredictably. The club also explicitly states that reselling a ticket voids it with no refund, and for some matches tickets carry a name. TikTik obtains tickets for Osasuna matches at El Sadar without club membership and without the waiting list.
How do you get to El Sadar Stadium?
El Sadar is reached on Pamplona's city buses — lines 1, 6, 9, 11 and 16. Pamplona has no metro — it has city buses called 'Villavesas', and the stadium sits at the edge of the campus of the Public University of Navarre, right next to the Navarra Arena. The regular lines that stop there: 1, 6, 9, 11 and 16. On matchdays four extra special lines also run — R1 from Plaza del Príncipe de Viana, R2 from Barañáin, R4 from Mendillorri and R5 from Sarriguren — operating from an hour before the match until half an hour after. Board lines 1, 6 and 9 at Plaza de las Merindades, and 11 and R1 on Avenida de Zaragoza 6–8. From Pamplona's train station there's a direct line to the stadium — line 9. And you can also simply walk: from Plaza del Castillo, the heart of the city, it's about two and a half kilometers over flat urban terrain, roughly half an hour's walk. Address: Calle Sadar s/n, 31006 Pamplona. Note that Calle Sadar itself closes to traffic about two hours before kickoff.
Is there parking at El Sadar?
No — there is no public car park at El Sadar, and the municipality bans parking on the streets around the stadium on matchdays. The club doesn't publish any public car park at the stadium, and the only official information that exists actually points the other way: the municipality bans parking on the streets surrounding the pitch on matchdays, and the nearby Navarra Arena states explicitly that you can't park in its vicinity when there's a match at El Sadar. There are, nonetheless, two organized options: a paid underground car park beneath the Navarra Arena — limited spaces, worth booking in advance — and municipal 'Park & Ride' car parks open all day in the nearby districts of Milagrosa-Ensanche and Arrosadía. The good news for drivers: the stadium's district is outside Pamplona's low-emission zone, which applies only to the old town — meaning a rental car won't get blocked on the way to the stadium. And one more detail that changes things: the city's blue-zone parking scheme is suspended on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and public holidays. Many matches are played on Sunday, in which case street parking is simply free. On other days the scheme operates 08:30–14:00 and 16:00–20:00.
How do you get from Israel to an Osasuna match?
For an Osasuna match you fly from Tel Aviv to Madrid, and from there a train or connecting flight to Pamplona. Pamplona has no international flights at all — its small airport operates three routes, all domestic within Spain. So you travel in two stages. Stage one: a direct flight from Tel Aviv to Madrid — operated by El Al and Air Europa, about five and a half hours — or a direct flight to Barcelona, operated by El Al, Arkia and BlueBird, about four and three-quarter hours. Stage two: from Madrid there's an Iberia connecting flight to Pamplona, a little over an hour, or a direct Renfe train that takes about three and a half hours, roughly four times a day. From Barcelona there's no flight to Pamplona at all — from there you travel by train from Sants station, about four hours, with about three departures a day. In Pamplona itself: the airport is about six kilometers from the city, and there's no regular bus line to it — there's a shared-taxi service by advance booking from Paseo Sarasate street. From the train station you enter the city on line 9, which continues all the way to the stadium.
Does an Israeli need a visa to fly to the match?
No. Israelis enter Schengen-area countries visa-free for stays of up to 90 days in any 180-day period, and all that's required is a valid passport. Worth knowing what's coming: the European Union is launching the ETIAS authorization system in the last quarter of 2026. Once it takes effect, an online authorization will be required in advance, at a cost of €7, valid for three years or until the passport expires — whichever comes first. As of today the system is not active and no action is required from you. Important warning: the EU warns that many sites impersonate the official site, use the EU logo and charge inflated fees or steal passport and credit card details. There is only one official site — europa.eu/etias — and any address not on the europa.eu domain is not official.
Where should you sit at El Sadar?
At El Sadar, the lower tier, the 100 series, is the closest to the pitch. Since the renovation Osasuna no longer sells by stand names but by zone numbers, across four tiers: 101 to 118 on the lower tier, then 200, 300 and 400 above them. That sounds technical, but that's exactly the point — the whole design of the renovation was meant to bring the crowd closer to the pitch, so the lower tier, the 100 series, is the closest to the grass it has ever been here. Anyone who prefers to stand rather than sit will find a safe-standing area of about 1,200 places at the stadium. Anyone who wants to see the whole pitch and the shape of the match should pick the upper tier, the 400 series. Away fans are placed on the upper tier, in the area marked on the club's map as the visitors' area. There are also hospitality areas — Premium, Palco, and the Sala 1920 with a pitch view. One important tip: the club's website shows a 360-degree view from every zone before purchase, and it's worth looking — it's more accurate than any general recommendation.
What's special about Osasuna's 2026/27 season?
The 2026/27 season is a fresh start for Osasuna, with new coach Luis Miguel Ramis. Osasuna finished 2025/26 in 17th place with 42 points, and their survival in the league was only secured on the final matchday, on 23 May 2026 — after a loss of their own, saved by a result elsewhere. In June a new coach was appointed, Luis Miguel Ramis, on a contract until 2028, and he began work at Tajonar on 10 July. In the transfer market Osasuna sold winger Víctor Muñoz to Liverpool, parted ways with Javi Galán and Juan Cruz, and brought in striker Jonathan Dauda from Sporting Gijón on a contract until 2030. The backdrop to all this is a club that remains owned by its members — one of the few in Spain that never became a public company in the 1990s — with 20,100 season-ticket holders who elect its leadership. And a practical angle for the visitor: Osasuna aren't playing in Europe this season, so almost all their home matches fall on weekends, and the schedule is predictable well in advance. This is the club's eighth straight season in the top flight.
What's Osasuna's big match of the 2026/27 season?
Osasuna's big match is the derby against Real Sociedad, at El Sadar on 9 May 2027. Ninety kilometers separate the two cities, and beyond them lies a long-running debate of identity between Navarre and the Basque Country — which is why this is the match with the strongest edge. It will be played at El Sadar on 9 May 2027, in round 35, almost at the end of the season. Before it comes the second Basque derby, against Athletic Bilbao, already on 8 November 2026. And the two big away trips: Barcelona on 10 January 2027 and Real Madrid on 11 April 2027. Anyone planning a flight around a match should know one thing about the Spanish fixture list: the league publishes the dates in advance, but the exact kickoff time — and sometimes even the day itself, which can shift between Friday and Monday — is only locked in a few weeks before. So these dates are correct as a planning target, and the time is confirmed closer to the event.
