Estadio Benito Villamarín

The stadium began as a project for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, for which the Spanish architect Aníbal González Álvarez-Ossorio had produced an initial design as early as 1912. In 1923 the exposition's executive committee commissioned the architect Antonio Illanes del Río to complete that design. Several locations were considered before the commissar Cruz Conde settled on the site the ground still occupies.

The technical study for the construction was carried out by Manuel María Smith, who had designed the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao in 1913. Building work was launched in 1923 and finished by the end of 1928.

The new Estadio de la Exposición, in Seville, was officially inaugurated on 17 March 1929 with an international match in which Spain beat Portugal 5-0. It has been Real Betis's home since its completion in 1929; the club gained the lease and became its sole tenant in 1936.

During the Spanish Civil War, Seville City Council requisitioned the stadium and handed it over to the military. It suffered major damage as a result of the war and had to be renovated, work carried out with the help of Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, and it reopened on 12 March 1939.

The northern and southern stands were extended in 1958 by the architect Antonio Delgado y Roig, and electric lighting followed in 1959, on four towers carrying forty-eight spotlights each. On 12 August 1961 the ground passed into the ownership of Real Betis, and a few days later it was renamed after Benito Villamarín, who served as club president between 1955 and 1965. Cardinal José Bueno y Monreal blessed the stadium.

Between 1971 and 1973 the northern and southern stands were demolished outright and rebuilt, and continuous expansion through the 1970s raised the capacity to 48,500 spectators. Further major work between 1979 and 1982 prepared the ground for the 1982 FIFA World Cup and lifted the capacity to 50,253; the stadium hosted two group matches during the tournament.

In 1997 the stadium was renamed after the then club president Manuel Ruiz de Lopera. In 2010 Real Betis supporters voted to change the name back in honour of the former club president Benito Villamarín.

The southern stand was demolished for expansion in 2016, taking the total capacity from 52,000 to 60,721, and the work was completed in August 2017 in time for the 2017–18 La Liga season. In 2025 renovation of the main stand began and Betis moved to the Estadio de La Cartuja. The ground remains owned and operated by Real Betis Balompié.