La Cartuja seating guide for Betis home games: choose the zone, because the seat comes later

For a first Betis match at La Cartuja I would book Media Central on one of the long sides, Preferencia or Fondo. If the central blocks have gone, Media Lateral.

In the advance sale you buy a zone rather than a seat. Betis assign the row and seat close to kick-off, and a separate phase where you pick the seat yourself opens only in the last 24 to 48 hours, if anything is left. The zone is the part you decide in advance. What is on sale changes from fixture to fixture.

Information checked on 29 September 2026.

Read La Cartuja the way the ticket page names it

Real Betis have used Estadio La Cartuja since 2025/26 while the Benito Villamarín is rebuilt.

There are four stands. Preferencia is the main stand, and every account I found places it on the west side. Fondo means the far end, but here it is the east stand, a long side. Behind the goals sit Gol Norte and Gol Sur.

On the two long sides the tiers are sold as Baja, Media (the middle ring), Alta Inferior, Alta Superior and Alta Voladizo, the overhanging top tier, with Grada Club on the Fondo side as well. At the Gol ends the bottom tier splits into Baja Inferior and Baja Superior. On the match ticket page each zone name then finishes with Central or Lateral, and the season-ticket list adds Corner. The club’s stadium page lists no overhang on the east stand, while the ticket page sells Fondo Alta Voladizo, so I work from the ticket page.

Seats are grouped into sectors, written as Sector 100. Nothing in the official 3D viewer explains the numbering, so what follows is how I read its layout. The 100s are the lowest ring, built where the running track used to be, and the 200s are the tier above, Media on the long sides and Baja Superior at the Gol ends. The 300s are Grada Club and hospitality on the long sides, Media at the ends. The 400s are Alta Inferior. Three-digit 500s are Alta Voladizo on the long sides and Alta Superior at the ends, while four-digit 5000s mark Alta Superior, mostly on the long sides. The numbers run round the bowl from the middle of Preferencia, reaching Gol Norte before Fondo.

The advance sale starts with a zone, and seats open only in the last two days

When I looked at the end of September 2026, the club had tickets on sale for matches up to 17 October 2026 and nothing beyond that, so, going by that window, plan on weeks rather than months. LaLiga has Betis against Atlético down for 30 May 2027, the last matchday, with no kick-off time published yet.

Entrada Priority opens first. You pick a zone and Betis pick the row and seat. The purchase conditions promise at least 48 hours’ notice; the club’s announcement of the system says between 3 and 48 hours. Entrada General opens days later and only if stock is left, and it does not let you choose a seat either. Seat selection is a separate phase that opens 24 to 48 hours before kick-off. Most of the stock is seats that season-ticket holders have handed back, and much of that arrives inside that final window.

Gol Norte and Gol Sur are bundled into a single purchase, so you cannot choose which end you sit behind. The match-day windows take only cards issued in Spain, refuse cash, and sell nothing when a fixture is classed as high risk. Zone names and prices are on the club’s own ticket page. The rebuilt Camp Nou sells zones the same way.

For a first visit I would take Media Central on one of the long sides

The 200s are in the older structure, which on my reading is the part the roof reaches; that reasoning is in the roof section. The coordinates in the 3D viewer read as metres and put the eye height at roughly 7 m above the pitch, high enough to read a back four without losing the speed of a tackle. As of 28 September 2026, the Priority price for Media was €62 against Osasuna on 11 October 2026 and €208 to €244 against FC Barcelona on 17 October 2026.

The 100s are the alternative. The construction report gave 8.5 m from the touchline on the sides and 14 m behind the goals, though one account still put the stands slightly farther from the grass than at the Villamarín. The report also said those rows are not covered when it rains, which is the roof question I come back to below. Preferencia Central sold out in Baja, Media and Alta Inferior for both matches I checked.

Alta Inferior, the 400s, was €60 on the long sides against Osasuna and €38 behind a goal, and the viewer puts the long-side band about 22 m above the pitch. I would pay the difference.

Alta Voladizo is where I stop. It sits 32 to 39 m up. Some of those top seats may also be sold as reduced-view. The evidence is indirect. At the 2026 Copa del Rey final, played here, the RFEF price list attached reduced-view prices to the upper tiers and Voladizo lateral, and Betis have said nothing comparable for a league match. Alta Superior Lateral belongs in that group too.

La Cartuja has a reputation as an empty athletics bowl. Betis averaged 57,426 in the league last season against an official capacity of 70,000, and in the two fixtures I checked the central long-side zones had already sold out.

The club’s page is where the zones live. An agency listing is a different map, two long-side categories with a price each, and it is the quicker way to see whether anything is open at all: see Real Betis home tickets on P1 Travel. Booking through the agency links in this article may earn Cholismo Lab a small commission, at no extra cost to you. P1 Travel, which describes itself as an “official ticketing authorized agent” of Real Betis, usually lists two long-side categories, sends the seats one to three days before the match, and sells into the home sections, with the organiser’s no-away-fans rule on its pages. One of the two is labelled by block number, 327 and 328, and on the viewer’s map I read those sectors as the Fondo Grada Club band.

Sun, roof and kick-off time at La Cartuja

The roof covers most of the seats, and a further phase from 2027 is intended to extend it. Set against the construction report’s note that the new lower rows are uncovered, the cover as it stands looks to me like it reaches the old structure and stops short of the new lower ring.

The afternoon light lands on Fondo and Gol Norte. Nobody publishes a shade map, so that comes from geometry. The pitch runs roughly north to south with the main stand on the west, so the low sun comes from behind Preferencia, leaving Preferencia and Gol Sur in shade.

Sunset in Seville is 19:46 in mid-October, 19:02 in mid-February and 21:24 in mid-May, and the average daily maximum is 26 °C in October and 27 °C in May. An evening kick-off in October or February removes the question. A May afternoon does not. November is among the wettest months in the Seville records, and walking-stick umbrellas are on the club’s banned list, so I would pack a rain jacket.

Gol Sur carries the noise, and the away section I could place is from a European night

The reports around the move to La Cartuja put Betis’s singing section in the lower Gol Sur. Looking down the pitch from a goal end, it is also the hardest place to follow the match from.

The only away-section location I could document is from a European fixture. Nottingham Forest’s away guide for its September 2025 visit put travelling supporters in the upper tier of the north-east area, through Gates 12 and 13. It counted 30 steps to the turnstiles and 16 more to the seats, and a holdback that Betis told them usually runs 15 to 30 minutes. A supporters guide from the same trip described a net across the front of the section. For a league fixture Betis have said nothing about the away corner, so I would not assume the same one on a Sunday.

For Atlético supporters the home sale is not the way in. League visiting tickets come through Atlético’s away-ticket channel, which the club keeps for its members, season-ticket holder or not. Requests close 48 hours after the kick-off time is confirmed, and the tickets are collected in person in Seville, in the member’s name. When Valencia visited in 2025/26 the away allocation was €30 plus €1.50 in fees, issued in the buyer’s name and limited to two per person. That sat under LaLiga’s visiting-section deal, and I found no announcement of a 2026/27 edition. Betis’s purchase conditions reserve general home tickets for Betis supporters and say a purchase by a rival club’s supporter may be treated as fraudulent, and P1’s pages carry an organiser rule of no away fans. The Atlético ticket guide covers how those away applications work.

Getting there and what not to bring

The Cercanías C-2 runs from Santa Justa to a station called Estadio, 200 m from the ground. After evening matches two free special trains leave 30 and 40 minutes after the final whistle, and three free shuttle routes run to Blas Infante, Puente de la Barqueta and Sevilla Este. No metro line reaches the stadium; Blas Infante, the nearest, is 6 km away and connects by the official shuttle.

Gates generally open 90 minutes before kick-off, earlier for some fixtures. After the queues at the first league match of 2026/27 in August 2026, the club recommended arriving two and a half hours early. Among the gates, Puerta (gate) 2 is at Preferencia, 6 at Gol Sur, 10 at Fondo and 14 at Gol Norte, with the ticket windows beside 6 and 14.

There is no left luggage at the ground. Water bottles over 500 ml, walking-stick umbrellas, cameras, prams and suitcases are all on the club’s banned list. Everyone needs a ticket whatever their age, infants included, and the QR code on a phone gets you through the turnstile.

Booking as a neutral visitor. If you are not travelling on an Atlético away allocation, the agency listing is the quicker check on what is open. Start with Real Betis home tickets on P1 Travel, or go straight to the Betis against Atlético fixture listed for 30 May 2027. The categories are long-side and the seats are in the home sections. If you are an away fan, look to Atlético’s away allocation instead.