Estadi de Sarrià & RCDE Stadium

RCD Espanyol bought the land in 2002. The plot lay between Cornellà de Llobregat and El Prat de Llobregat and had formed part of a rubbish tip closed in the 1970s; the club paid €360,000 for it, together with 1.9 per cent of its own share capital, valued at €150,000.

The finances were built around the commercial development beside the ground. Construction was costed at first at €54.3 million overall, €40 million of it to come from the LAR group, which built and was to operate the shopping centre attached to the stadium, and the club looked to cut that outlay through public subsidies and commercial deals over the stadium's sponsorship. Morlanes, an Espanyol director, put the arrangement plainly: every company taking part in the project, he said, was obliged to be a sponsor of the club. In February 2008 the Acciona Inmobiliaria group took 100 per cent of the shopping centre.

The building work itself absorbed the most capital, at €44.189 million, with a further €20 million to urbanise the surrounding area. Accounts of the build differ: three years of work at a cost of about €60 million by one reckoning, six years and €65 million by another. The keys were handed over to Espanyol in a symbolic ceremony on 5 June 2009.

The first official act at the new stadium came on 13 July 2009, with the presentation of the Japanese player Shunsuke Nakamura to the first team. More than 7,000 people came to see him in an Espanyol shirt, the best-attended presentation in the club's history to that date. The same day the club began the final move of its offices out of the Estadi Olímpic at Montjuïc. On 19 July an open day was held, with a three-way match between the veterans of Espanyol, of Cornellà de Llobregat and of El Prat de Llobregat.

The inaugural match was played on Sunday 2 August 2009. Espanyol beat Liverpool 3-0, and Luis García scored the first goal at the ground. The stadium became Espanyol's home that year, the eighth in the club's history, replacing the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.

The club captain Daniel Jarque died on 8 August 2009, six days after the inaugural match. It was proposed that the stadium be renamed in his honour, but the club has taken no definite stance on the question.

A memorial had been planned before the ground opened. In January 2008 the club had presented a project for a cemetery inside one of the stadium's corners, open to any member who wanted it, and it was built. Members may have their ashes placed behind ceramic tiles set into the walls, which carry photographs of Dani Jarque and of the team, and may buy a plaque at €250 to be fixed permanently on another wall beside those of players. Jarque's own plaque is already there.

In June 2014 Espanyol announced that the ground would be called the Power8 Stadium, under an agreement with a firm supplying technology to the sports betting sector. The club ceded the naming rights and a series of commercial assets for the following seven seasons; it never published the figure, which may have been in the region of €35 million. On 26 May 2015 El Periódico de Catalunya reported that Power8 was an investment fraud, a pyramid scheme that had duped hundreds of Chinese and Taiwanese investors and had been organised by Bryan Cook and Thomas Yi of London Capital. The contract was resolved, and on 1 January 2016 the ground took the name RCDE Stadium.

In April 2016 Chen Yansheng, Espanyol's largest shareholder, paid off the club's outstanding debt to the joint venture of firms that had built the stadium, a charge of €23 million that had been a drag on the club's accounts.

On 12 June 2023 Espanyol reached a naming agreement with the American ticketing and technology company Stage Front, worth close to €1 million a season with the club in the Segunda División and considerably more should it go up. On 1 July 2024 the club announced legal action against the company for non-payment, broke the contract, and the ground reverted to RCDE Stadium.

The stadium is owned by RCD Espanyol. It seats 40,500, which makes it the tenth-largest in Spain and the third-largest in Catalonia, and it holds UEFA's elite four-star classification. It was among the first grounds in Europe to use clean energy: photovoltaic panels on the roof are rated at 1,113,000 watts, and the club calculated an annual income of close to €600,000 from working them. On 18 June 2010, at a ceremony in Dublin, the ground was named Venue of the Year at the Stadium Business Awards.

It has been used beyond Espanyol's own fixtures. The Black Eyed Peas played there on 3 July 2010 in front of 30,000, Rammstein on 1 June 2019 in front of 33,825, and Robbie Williams on 5 July 2025. On 7 June 2025 Andorra hosted England at the ground in qualifying for the 2026 World Cup. It is one of the stadiums that could host matches at the 2030 World Cup.