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Address: Bilbao
Country: Spain
Capacity: 53,000
Opened: 16 September 2013
Main use: Football
Tenants: Athletic Club (football)
San Mamés Stadium, located in Bilbao, is one of Spain’s largest and most modern football venues. Construction began in 2010 with a total cost of €173 million, and the stadium officially opened in 2013. Known for its striking architecture and advanced facilities, San Mamés is the home of Athletic Club and a landmark of Basque football culture.
Inaugural Match
The stadium opened with a Spanish top-flight league match between Athletic Club and Celta de Vigo, in which the home side won 3–2. During their first season at the venue, Athletic Club drew an average attendance of 32,000 over 19 home games.
Athletic Club Achievements
Athletic Club, founded in 1898, won its first La Liga title in 1930. They secured their second domestic top-flight league championship one year later, sharing the season points with Real Racing Club de Santander and arch-rivals Real Sociedad. San Mamés continues to host Athletic Club’s home matches, fostering one of the most passionate football atmospheres in Spain.
San Mamés was built to meet modern international standards for professional football:
Capacity and Comfort: 53,000 seats with excellent sightlines for all spectators
Advanced Infrastructure: State-of-the-art media facilities, VIP zones, and hospitality areas
Safety and Accessibility: Designed to comply with UEFA, FIFA, and domestic safety standards
San Mamés Stadium is well-suited for advanced LED sports lighting, offering benefits in energy efficiency, broadcast quality, and spectator experience:
Broadcast-Ready Illumination
High-uniformity LED floodlights provide flicker-free lighting suitable for 4K/8K broadcasts and slow-motion replay.
Energy Efficiency
LED lighting can reduce energy consumption by 60%–75% compared with traditional metal-halide systems while significantly lowering maintenance costs.
Glare Control and Uniform Lighting
Advanced optics and anti-glare technologies minimize shadows and light spill, ensuring optimal visibility for players, referees, and spectators.
Smart Control and Multi-Scene Operation
LED systems allow for multiple modes, including match play, training sessions, pre-match light shows, and fan engagement scenarios, enhancing commercial and operational versatility.
For San Mamés, implementing high-performance LED sports lighting aligned with FIFA, UEFA, and LaLiga standards presents an opportunity for MECREE and other professional lighting manufacturers to provide energy-efficient, broadcast-quality solutions.
San Mamés is a major cultural landmark in Bilbao and the Basque Country. Beyond football, it hosts concerts, community events, and sports tournaments. LED lighting upgrades will enhance the stadium’s sustainability, fan engagement, and broadcast-ready capabilities while preserving its iconic status.
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With the growing popularity of nighttime sports events, professional competitions demand higher lighting quality. The glare from traditional fixtures can no longer meet athletes’ expectations for sensory experience. Leveraging breakthroughs in MECREE’s sports lighting technology, our precise light control and anti-glare designs enable athletes to perform at their peak and enjoy an exceptional sports experience.
Issues caused by unnecessary nighttime lighting, such as light pollution and light trespass, are increasingly concerning and have led to rising public complaints. Amid growing environmental awareness, lighting designers must prioritize controlling “Light Pollution” and “Light Trespass.” We are committed to addressing this challenge through innovative optical technologies.
Currently common traditional stadium lights model for some international stadiums as below:
MVF406/1800W, HNF003, MVF401, MVF403, MVF024, EF-2000, YOA56305, YOAX56400, 2kW: HQI-TS 2000WDS, 2kW: HQI-TS 1000WDS, MHN-SA 2KW 400V/956, MHN-SB/HO 2KW 400V/956, LPW2000M/D, LPW1000MB/L, LPP2000MHN-SA, LPP2000MHN-SB.
There is big problem that traditional lamps can not cannot meet the needs of 4K and 8K high-definition broadcast and huge energy consumption.
With the strengthening of environmental lighting awareness and the pursuit of high-quality lighting, there is a trend to replace traditional lamps by high quality of LED Stadium Lights.
MECREE has launched the following series of LED Sport Stadium Lighting:
MECREE’s specially engineered precision lighting control is designed to meet the needs of such users. The polarized light range of 65-73° is defined as the P73-L and A65 series products, which deliver an unparalleled visual experience while offering access to thousands of IES profiles.
Our precisely engineered optics of polarized light aim light directly onto the field of play, to shine uniformly and to minimize glare. Outdoor venues benefit from spill light control, no more skyglow and no more complaints from the neighbors.
1. Such light shield is useless,just misleading customers.
2. As tested it will cause 30% reduction of light output
3. While 70% still have high overflow
4. Unbearable strong glare
5. Waste energy,outdated reflective technology
The power supply and lamp body can be mounted separately, reducing the withstand weight of the lamp pole and facilitating maintenance.
Customized crossarms are available to meet all your existing old poles without replacing the main rod, crossarms bolt directly to light pole, easy and accurate installation saves time, ensures performance, safety and reliability,also lower the budget.
In current sports lighting projects, high-altitude light calibration is recognized as a major efficiency bottleneck. The process carries high safety risks, is prone to aiming deviations, and involves cumbersome installation and removal procedures, making it difficult to achieve the required uniformity.
MECREE’s innovative laser aiming mount was designed precisely to address these issues. It revolutionizes the workflow through three key advantages:
Easy Installation: With a simple design, it allows rapid mounting and dismounting, significantly lowering the operational threshold.
Precise Aiming: Ensures accurate laser alignment, fundamentally guaranteeing uniform illumination and compliance with lighting standards.
Efficient Operation: Reduces labor and time costs by up to 80%. Calibrating 200 fixtures at height previously took 20 days; now the same workload can be completed in just 4 days.
Choosing MECREE means choosing a safer, more precise, and highly efficient sports lighting solution.
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