The Yellow Club incorporates a new section linked to sustainability and the environment into its CSR project

Villarreal CF have presented Endavant Sostenibilitat, a new section of their Corporate Social Responsibility project, linked to sustainability and the environment.

With the birth of Endavant Sostenibilitat, the Yellows club will include in this programme all the activities that it has carried out in recent campaigns for the protection of the environment and the conservation of the surroundings. Especially in the province of Castellón, where it carries out its activities.

Villarreal CF is committed to the principle of sustainability, which consists of ensuring present needs without compromising the needs of future generations. In this way, the club has taken the decision to calculate its carbon footprint, which was 848.96 tonnes CO² in 2023, and represents the total volume of greenhouse gases produced by its activity.

From this, it will serve as a starting point and will serve as a reference to develop activities to reduce this environmental impact.

Endavant, Villarreal CF’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme

Villarreal CF has been a proud ambassador of the provincial identity for more than two decades, promoting and contributing to the development of the province of Castellón through social, cultural, sporting, educational and tourist activities.

Use of renewable energy

• Solar panels at the Estadio de la Cerámica: Villarreal CF has promoted an ambitious solar self-consumption project with the installation of 1,060 photovoltaic panels on a surface area of 3,216.37 m² on the roof of the Fondo Norte stand. The panels offer a power of 435 kWp to take advantage of the 300 days of sunshine a year that we enjoy in Vila-real.

The project, led by IM2 Energía Solar, has reduced CO² emissions by 122 tonnes and represents an overall energy saving of 642.7 MWh. This installation makes it one of the most sustainable pitches in LALIGA EA Sports and European football.

• Solar panels at the José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground and the Pamesa Cerámica Training Ground

Villarreal also has solar panels in the Training Ground, placed on top of the residence building in the complex, as well as on the upper part of the academy changing rooms.

Likewise, the Pamesa Cerámica Training Ground also has solar panels on the upper part of the building.

A stadium with urban integration and mobility for pedestrians

The excellent location of the Estadio de la Cerámica, right in the centre of Vila-real, completely integrated into the town, encourages urban pedestrian mobility to get to the stadium, directly reducing fuel consumption.

Furthermore, the conversion of the stadium into a modern and multifunctional facility, aimed at the use and enjoyment of local people, with the congregation of leisure facilities, experiences and spaces, not only favours the economy of the town, but also Villarreal CF opens the doors of its stadium to the needs of society.

Saving energy and fuel

• Ceramics, a zero-kilometre material with excellent properties

The main material at the Estadio de la Cerámica and both training grounds is ceramics. The manufacturing of it, around Vila-real, considerably reduces the carbon footprint.

Likewise, ceramics act as an important thermal insulator, thus contributing to energy savings.

• LED illumination

The lighting in the Estadio de la Cerámica and the training grounds are low-consumption LEDs. Similarly, the lights used for the treatment and care of the grass are of the same technology.

Savings in water consumption and resources

• State-of-the-art hybrid turf at the Estadio de la Cerámica and the Mini Estadi at the José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground, which requires little maintenance and low water consumption, with an efficient drainage system.
• Use of rainwater tanks for the irrigation of the Estadio de la Cerámica grass.
• Nine artificial turf pitches at the José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground and the Pamesa Cerámica Training Ground to reduce water consumption.
• The natural playing fields are digitalised, which allows them to be controlled by meteorological stations to monitor the parameters of the state of the terrain and the environment, calculating the water and maintenance needs of the plants. This information allows the necessary irrigation to be carried out, in order to efficiently rationalise the consumption of water and other products.
• The maintenance of these natural pitches and garden plants is carried out with organo-mineral fertilisers and micro-organisms, in order to preserve these plantations in a more sustainable and healthy way.
• The construction of facilities for the use of sanitary water collected in a treatment plant and treated with a purification, filtering and disinfection process. In this way, it is reused to irrigate gardens and artificial pitches at the Pamesa Training Ground.

Recycling

• Villarreal CF have a partnership agreement with the ‘Reciclamas de Ecoembes’ company. At the club’s facilities, recyclable materials such as plastic, paper and cardboard are collected in containers and bins.
• Green waste from the cutting the grass is deposited in organic material containers to be dumped on composting fields as organic fertiliser.
• Disused metal materials are taken to recycling plants for subsequent reuse.
• Domestic oils and machinery are collected by authorised companies for recycling.
• The club has containers for clothes and shoes that are collected for reuse by the Caritas charity.