El Molinón

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stadium_name = Estadio Municipal El Molinón


location = Gijon, Asturias
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opened = 1908
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tenants = Sporting de Gijon
seating_capacity = 25,885
dimensions = convert|105|m|yd|0 x convert|68|m|yd|0
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El Molinón is an association football stadium in Gijón (Asturias), Spain. It´s the home ground of Sporting de Gijón

The stadium's address is Parque de Isabel la Católica, 33390 Gijón.

History

The stadium played host to two famous group matches in the 1982 World Cup, Germany's shock 1-2 defeat to Algeria being the first. After the result of Algeria's final group game was known, a rather uncontested 1-0 victory of Germany against Austria which sent both teams through at Algeria's expense. This shameful game at Gijon directly led to a change of the rules requiring the last matches in the group phase to be played simultaneously.