El Sadar seating guide: stand in the Graderío Sur or sit elsewhere, and decide before Osasuna's general sale opens

Most of El Sadar's 23,576 seats belong to Osasuna season-ticket holders, and the club takes on new holders only when existing ones drop out. What is left goes on sale on Osasuna's own ticket site, after a priority window for members. For the two home matches Osasuna had on sale in mid-October, the general sale starts nine and 14 days before kick-off, and every ticket is issued in the name of the person who will use it. Those seats do not last long, so I would pick a zone before the sale opens, and the first thing to decide is whether you want to stand.

The Graderío Sur, the lower tier behind the south goal, was built for standing through the match. If you would rather sit, I would wait for a seat on one of the long sides. At an afternoon kick-off, by my calculation, people on the Preferencia side will have the February sun at their backs.

Atlético play at El Sadar on the weekend of 14 February 2027. The day and kick-off time had not been fixed, and Osasuna had not announced prices or sale dates for the match.

Information checked on 15 October 2026. Prices are from Osasuna's ticket site for the home matches against Racing Santander on 18 October and Athletic Club on 7 November.

The Graderío Sur was built for standing, and it is on general sale

When Osasuna rebuilt El Sadar, in work finished in 2021, the club put in a whole stand of 1,200 rail seats so that fans could watch the match on their feet. That stand is the lower tier at the south end, where the supporters' group Indar Gorri stands.

The ticket site listed its middle block, 114, as Graderío Sur for both matches, at €55 against Racing and €85 against Athletic Club.

I would buy there only if I wanted to stand with the home support for the whole match. The stand was designed for it, so expect everyone around you to be on their feet. It is the home end, so do not wear Atlético colours there. Away fans have block 403. If you want to sit down and watch the game, pick any other zone.

Grada, Tribuna and Alta give you the tier, and Tribuna 1 to 7 is only the price

El Sadar has four sides and three tiers. Preferencia is the side with the VIP box, Lateral faces it across the pitch, Gol is one end and Sur, with the Graderío Sur, is the other.

The block number tells you the tier. Blocks in the 100s and most of the 200s are the lower tier, the 300s the middle tier and the 400s the upper tier. The ticket site names them to match: Grada for the lower tier, Tribuna for the middle and Tribuna Alta for the upper, so 109 is Grada Lateral, 309 Tribuna Lateral and 409 Tribuna Lateral Alta. The corners are called Ángulo. The lower tier at the south end is the one exception, called Graderío Sur.

Osasuna's ticketing data sorts the prices into bands labelled Tribuna 1 to 7, a separate scale that cuts across the stands. For Athletic Club they ran from Tribuna 1 at €100, the middle tier on the long sides, down to Tribuna 7 at €70, the upper corners. Tribuna 2 (€95) was the middle tier at the Gol end. The lower tier on the long sides and the middle tier at the Sur end and in the corners were in Tribuna 3 (€90), the Graderío Sur and the lower tier at the Gol end in Tribuna 4 (€85), and the upper tier on the long sides in Tribuna 5 (€80), along with the lower corners. The upper tier at both ends was Tribuna 6 (€75). The Palco blocks 201 and 218, the Zona Premium and the VIP box cost €120, €220 and €275. Against Racing, the blocks still on sale six days into the general sale cost €45 to €70.

A block can also move between bands. Block 315 was in Tribuna 2 against Racing and Tribuna 3 against Athletic Club, so go by the price listed for your match.

To sit, I would wait for a long side, and the Preferencia side in daylight

On the long sides, the middle tier is the most expensive standard seat in the ground. The upper tier on the long sides, Tribuna Preferencia Alta and Tribuna Lateral Alta, was in Tribuna 5 against Athletic Club, as Lateral Alta was against Racing. That put it below the lower seats behind either goal, the Graderío Sur included, so I would take a long side upstairs over a lower seat at an end. On a tight budget, the upper tier at the ends and in the corners was cheaper still. The upper tier also had the most seats left during the members' priority for Athletic Club.

Which long side depends on the kick-off time, and that has not been set. Going by the map, Preferencia is on the south-south-west side of the pitch and Lateral faces it from the north-north-east. By my calculation for 14 February, the sun is in the south at 14:00 and in the south-west at 16:15. For either kick-off it would be behind Preferencia, with the Lateral facing it. It sets at about 18:40, so for an evening kick-off the side makes no difference.

Osasuna replaced the roof over the whole ground in the rebuild. I found nothing on how far into the Lateral the sun reaches under it, and no account from anyone who has sat there on a winter afternoon.

Recent general sales have opened one to two weeks before the match, online only, with a name on every ticket

Single tickets go on sale in two stages. First comes a priority window for members and holders of the club's Soy Rojill@ card. Then the general sale opens at 9:30, online only, and runs until kick-off. For Racing the priority window ran from 5 to 8 October and the general sale opened on 9 October, nine days before the match. For Athletic Club the priority window runs from 15 to 23 October and the general sale opens on 24 October, 14 days before. You can buy up to six tickets at a time.

Six days into the general sale for Racing, every block still listed had only a handful of seats left.

Season-ticket holders who cannot go can hand their seat back to the club through what Osasuna call the cesión, and if the club sells it on, the holder gets a share of the price. The cesión opened six days before the Racing match, opens five days before Athletic Club and stays open until an hour before kick-off, so seats can come back late. If your zone has sold out, I would look again in the last few days.

If Osasuna follow the same pattern for Atlético, the members' priority would start in late January and the general sale around the start of February. That is my estimate from this season's two matches, and the club announces each sale on its news page.

The ticket form has fields for the first name, surname and DNI, the Spanish identity number, of the person who will use each ticket. I could not confirm whether a non-Spanish passport number is accepted for general-sale tickets. If you do not have a DNI, find out whether you can complete the purchase before you book any travel you cannot refund. Because every ticket is tied to a named person, I would buy only from Osasuna's ticket site and not from a resale site.

The Soy Rojill@ card gets you into the priority window. When it launched in 2021 it cost €40 a year, and I could not confirm this season's price or whether someone living abroad can get one.

Away fans go in block 403, which is not on general sale

The away section is block 403, in the upper tier at the corner where Preferencia meets the Gol end. Osasuna's season-ticket guide marks it for visitors, and it does not appear in the general sale. In 2021 Osasuna sent a little over 600 tickets to the visiting club for one match, and I have no figure for this season. For the February match, check Atlético's official away-ticket announcement for who can apply and how. The Atlético away-ticket guide explains how those applications work. Being on the Preferencia side, block 403 should also have an afternoon sun behind it, by the same calculation as above.