Where to sit at Levante's Ciutat de València: the Tribuna for an afternoon kick-off, and buy the day the sale opens

For a first Levante match at the Ciutat de València I would sit on a long side near halfway: in the Tribuna, the main stand on the west side, for an afternoon kick-off, and in the Grada, the east stand opposite, for a night match. I would buy from Levante's own ticket site on the day the match goes on sale. Season-ticket holders have about four in five seats, prices usually rise as the match gets closer, and Levante says a change of date or time is no reason for a refund.

It is the other LaLiga ground in Valencia, about 3 km north of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Valencia CF call 2026/27 Mestalla's last season before the move to the Nou Mestalla. Mestalla holds about twice as many people, and regulars there say only its main stand is fully under a roof. At the Ciutat de València, the roof built in 2020 and 2021 was reported at the time as covering every seat. The fixture list has Levante and Valencia both at home in the same round only three times this season, so in most league rounds only one of the two is scheduled to play at home. For the other ground, see the Mestalla seating guide.

Information checked on 14 October 2026. Prices are from Levante's announcement of 24 September for the Sevilla and Athletic Club matches.

Each zone name gives you the stand, the position along it and the tier

The stadium is on Calle San Vicente de Paúl, in the Orriols district. Tram line 6 stops outside it, at Estadi Ciutat de València, and Machado station on metro line 3 is also close.

There are four stands. The Tribuna is the main stand, on the west side, with the players' entrance and the VIP seats. The Grada faces it from the east, and LaLiga's stadium map calls it the Grada Central. Gol Alboraya is behind the north goal and Gol Orriols behind the south goal.

Levante's 2020 price list named its 18 zones with three words: the stand, then Central, Lateral or Córner, then Alta or Baja (Alto or Bajo behind the goals). I read the middle word as the stretch around halfway, the part further along, and the end nearest the corner flag, and the last word as the upper or lower tier. So Tribuna Central Alta is the upper tier of the main stand near halfway. The 2020 names did not say which end a Gol zone was at. The 2022 list did, and called the long sides Tribuna Oeste and Tribuna Este.

I could not open the seat map in this season's sale, so I cannot give you this season's zone names, block numbers or rows.

The new roof was meant to cover every seat, but the winter sun comes in low from the south

Before the works, only the main stand had a roof. The first phase of the rebuild put up a new membrane roof on columns around the outside of the ground, and the plan reported at the time was for it to cover every seat.

The pitch runs roughly north-north-east to south-south-west, and the sun positions below are my own calculation from that layout. At 14:00 on 3 January the sun is low in the south and shines straight at Gol Alboraya. By 16:15 it has moved to the south-west and is lower still, so the Grada and Gol Alboraya face into it while the Tribuna has it behind. It sets at about 17:50, so a kick-off at 18:30 or later that day has no sun at all. On 2 May the early-evening sun is in the west, which again puts it in the faces of the Grada.

I could not find out whether a sun that low, or rain blown in on the wind, gets under the roof to the front rows, and I found no account from anyone who has sat there in winter.

For a first visit I would sit Central on a long side, away from the singing section

My first choice is a Central zone of the Tribuna for an afternoon or early-evening kick-off, and a Central zone of the Grada for a night match. From either long side near halfway you follow both goals equally, and from mid-afternoon the Tribuna has the sun at its back. In the price lists Levante published in 2020 and 2022 the main stand cost the most and the ends the least, so at night the Grada puts you in the same position on the other side, and it has usually cost less.

I found nothing first-hand to choose between Alta and Baja, so I would pick the Central position first and take whichever tier is on sale.

In June 2022 Levante decided to move its singing section, Levante Fans, to Gol Alboraya Central Bajo, the lower central block behind the north goal, from the 2022/23 season. LaLiga's report on last season's derby placed a group of home fans leading chants in the lower tier of Gol Alboraya, in sectors 517 and 518. If you would rather watch from a quieter seat, I would pick a block away from those sectors.

Season-ticket holders have most of the seats, so buy on the day the sale opens

Levante closed this season's season-ticket campaign at a little over 19,500 and did not open it to new holders. Local reports give the capacity as 24,600, and LaLiga's history of the ground says 24,700, so only about 5,000 seats are left outside the season tickets. Season-ticket holders can also release their seats for a match, and a zone that looks full can get seats back nearer the day.

Levante sells in stages, but who goes first, and for how long, changes from match to match. Holders of the supporters' card, the carnet de simpatizante, which costs €50 for the season, get priority and discounts like the season-ticket holders'. For the Sevilla match on 12 October and the rearranged Athletic Club match on 21 October, card holders could buy from 10:00 on 25 September and everyone else from 12:00. For last season's derby, season-ticket holders had nearly three days to themselves. I could not tell whether someone living abroad can get the card online.

Those two matches went on sale 17 and 26 days ahead, at €50 to €109 plus a booking fee. Levante says prices change with demand and with how close the match is, and that they usually go up.

Levante also says, in a notice from last December, that it does not refund tickets when the calendar changes, including for matches sold before their date was fixed. Its conditions of sale say that a refund for a cancelled match must be requested within 10 days of the announcement, and do not cover travel or hotels. The ticket site's legal notice lists cancellation, a substantial change and a suspension as exceptions to its no-refund rule, as long as none of them is caused by force majeure, without saying what counts as substantial. It also says the booking fee is not refunded if the match is cancelled. That is hard on a visitor. Waiting usually costs more, but if the match moves to a day you cannot make, I would not count on getting the money back.

The fixture list gives 3 January 2027 for the derby against Valencia and 2 May 2027 for the Real Madrid match as provisional dates. Neither had a confirmed day or kick-off time, and neither was on sale yet. Last season's derby was close to full, with about 800 tickets left four days before it.

Tickets come by email as a PDF to show on your phone or print, and the stadium box office also sells on match day if anything is left. Buy from Levante's ticket sale (in Spanish) and nowhere else. The club says reselling tickets, or passing them on in a disguised transfer, is banned, and that it will cancel the tickets involved at once. Its conditions of sale add that it does not guarantee that a ticket bought anywhere else is genuine.

Away fans sit in the corner of Gol Alboraya and the Grada

LaLiga's stadium guide, drawn up in 2018 before the new roof, puts the away section in the corner where Gol Alboraya meets the Grada, with its own entrance at gate 31. LaLiga's report on last season's derby placed the Valencia fans in the same corner.

Visiting clubs sell those tickets to their own fans. Betis had 626 for their visit in August, at €30 each, and Elche had the same number in 2024. Last season Valencia had 405 at €30 for the derby. COPE reported beforehand that Valencia supporters were expected in other parts of the ground too. As a neutral at the derby I would sit in the Tribuna, the long side away from the away corner.

Atlético play here on 31 October. For a later visit, their members apply for the away allocation through the club, as the Atlético away-ticket guide explains.