The Scorpions will have to wait rather longer than they first thought to see their football stadium renovated after the Orihuela council failed in its bid to obtain a grant from the Valencian Community.
The Higher Sports Council (CSD) has published the provisional results of the applications for subsidies however, the council’s proposal has not reached the cut-off mark. The City Council was confident of being able to attract this aid worth 510,000 euros, after losing an aid from the Provincial Council of 90,000 euros at the beginning of the current legislature but that will now not be the case.
According to the CSD resolution, the project obtained 32 points, well below the cut-off mark to qualify for aid, which was established at 50 points.
Another Oriolano project has also missed out, the digitalisation of the Palacio del Agua indoor swimming pool, which achieved 48 points, two below the minimum required.
Los Arcos has suffered great deterioration in recent years, especially since the DANA of 2019. The damage caused by the floods forced the government of former mayor Emilio Bascuñana to demolish the main stand and replace it with another one of a metal structure.
The previous PSOE-Cs government put out to tender and contracted the maintenance service for the natural grass of this field and that of San Bartolomé and just before they lost control, they announced that they wanted to increase the capacity of Los Arcos by 1,000 seats.
Following the promotion of Orihuela CF to Segunda Federación – Grupo 4, the stadium is regularly achieving attendances of 3,000 spectators, and that could increase if the team is promoted again this year, to First Division. RFEF.
Currently they occupy the final playoff pace with just 2 games of the season remaining.
