There won't be a single day of rest in the Riyadh Air Metropolitano stadium in Madrid during the summer of 2025. The Atlético de Madrid stadium will host a full schedule of concerts between May 25, the last day of the League, and the end of July, when the field needs to be replanted. For those two months, eight concerts have already been announced, and three other major performances have been confirmed but not yet communicated. Additionally, the club sources confirm that negotiations are ongoing with several promoters for the few remaining free dates in that tight summer schedule.
With nine weeks, the occupancy of the Riyadh Air Metropolitano is already close to 100%. The success of the venue is so significant that negotiations for several concerts for the summer of 2026 are already advanced, coinciding with the rumored European stadium tour of Oasis. The Gallagher brothers have announced concerts in the UK, the US, Latin America, and Asia between July and November 2025, but have clarified that this is only part of their world tour, which is expected to continue in 2026.
So far, the concerts announced at the Madrid venue for next summer are:
Ed Sheeran: May 30 (sold out) and 31.
Dellafuente: June 20 (sold out) and 21.
This schedule leaves a gap in mid-July, when Shakira could extend her world tour to Spain, starting in February in Latin America and continuing in the US until the end of June.
Last summer, there were eight concerts at the Madrid stadium: Bruce Springsteen's three nights, as well as Estopa, Metallica, The Weekend, Morat, and Feid.
The boom of live music in Madrid, with a continuous increase in ticket sales for a decade, and the Bernabéu crisis as a concert venue have benefited the Riyadh Air Metropolitano, which has become Spain's most desired venue for national and international major tours.
The trendy spot in Spain during the summer of 2024 was the Bernabéu, with historic full houses like Taylor Swift's two nights and, especially, Karol G's four nights. However, the unexpected cancellation by Real Madrid of the concerts by Aitana, Dellafuente, Lola Índigo, and the k-pop festival Music Bank, and the ¤800,000 in municipal fines for noise violations that the promoters who rented the Paseo de la Castellana stadium this year have faced, have left the field open to the Metropolitano. Quoting the not-so-subtle words of Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid, the situation will continue in the future until "the City Council and the Community of Madrid decide if they want the Bernabéu to continue being one of the main global venues for major international tours."
In Barcelona, on the other hand, the Olympic stadium Lluís Companys has only one concert announced so far, Imagine Dragons on July 1, while Espanyol expressed in September its intention to use the RCDE Stadium as a concert venue, but has not yet confirmed any shows for next summer.
It's important to note that a stadium concert occupies the space for almost a week, including stage setup and teardown. Therefore, even though there is a potential concert schedule of over two months, the actual available dates can only increase if multiple consecutive performances are scheduled, as will happen next summer at the Metropolitano with the tours of Ed Sheeran and Dellafuente.
Apart from live music, the Madrid stadium has intensified its activities with symposiums, congresses, and all kinds of events, the most striking of which is Madrid On Ice, a giant 4,700 m2 ice rink that will be set up around the field during Christmas with a capacity for 1,500 simultaneous skaters.