Valencia
Club League Sport Venue Established Capacity
Valencia CF La Liga Football Mestalla 1919 49,000
Levante UD La Liga Football Estadi Ciutat de València 1909 25,354
Valencia CF Mestalla Segunda División B Football Estadi Antonio Puchades 1944 4,000
Valencia Basket Club ACB Basketball Pavelló Municipal Font de Sant Lluís 1986 9,000
Valencia Giants LNFA American football Instalacions polideportives del Saler 2003
Valencia Firebats LNFA American football Estadi Municipal Jardí del Turia 1993
Valencia FS Tercera División Futsal San Isidro 1983 500
Les Abelles División de Honor B Rugby Union Poliesportiu Quatre carreres 1971 500
CAU Rugby Valencia División de Honor B Rugby Union Camp del Riu Turia 1973 750
Rugby Club Valencia División de Honor B Rugby Union Poliesportiu Quatre carreres 1966 500
Sport
Mestalla Estadi Ciutat de València Pavelló Municipal Font de Sant Lluís
Valencia (Spanish: [baˈlenθja]), officially València (Valencian: [vaˈlensia]), is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with around 800,000 inhabitants in the administrative centre. Its urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 1.6 million people. Valencia is Spain's third largest metropolitan area, with a population ranging from 1.7 to 2.5 million depending on how the metropolitan area is defined. The Port of Valencia is the 5th busiest container port in Europe and the busiest container port on the Mediterranean Sea. The city is ranked at Beta-global city in the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Valencia was founded as a Roman colony by the consul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus in 138 BC, and called Valentia Edetanorum. In 714 Moroccan and Arab Moors occupied the city, introducing their language, religion and customs; they implemented improved irrigation systems and the cultivation of new crops as well. Valencia was the capital of the Taifa of Valencia. In 1238 the Christian king James I of Aragon conquered the city and divided the land among the nobles who helped him conquer it, as witnessed in the Llibre del Repartiment. He also created a new law for the city, the Furs of Valencia, which were extended to the rest of the Kingdom of Valencia. In the 18th century Philip V of Spain abolished the privileges as punishment to the kingdom of Valencia for aligning with the Habsburg side in the War of the Spanish Succession. Valencia was the capital of Spain when Joseph Bonaparte moved the Court there in the summer of 1812.