Tucked away in Vigo’s hilly, green suburb of Lavadores is the Campo Municipal de Barreiro, home to Real Club Celta Fortuna. Football has been played at this location since the second decade of the 20th century, and the ground also plays host to Gran Peña Fútbol Club, one of the city’s older clubs and one that has in the past been affiliated with Celta Vigo.
Celta Vigo’s relationship with affiliated and reserve teams is complicated, full of official and unofficial allied clubs. The official record links the reserve side to Sport Club Turista, one of the first affiliated clubs formed in 1927. SC Turista plied much of its trade as an independent team in the Tercera, allowing Celta Vigo first pick of its promising players. In 1989, Celta Vigo looked to formalise the arrangement and entered into talks with SC Turista & Gran Peña FC, with the view to merging the clubs into an official reserve team. Gran Peña FC pulled out of the talks, a move that would see them exiled from Barreiro for two seasons, but SC Turista went ahead with the union, and Club Celta Turista was formed, taking the place in the Tercera that SC Turista had just earned after winning the Regional Preferente title. The club won promotion to Segunda B in 1992, and whilst it returned to the Tercera for much of the 1990s, when it changed name to Real Club Celta Vigo B, it gained promotion back to Segunda B in 2001, and it has remained in the third tier for all but the 2012-13 season.
The Campo Municipal de Barriero is essentially a single stand stadium. The current structure was built in 1988 when the municipality redeveloped the site. It sits on the southern side of the ground and features a single tier of concrete steps that is 80 metres in length. Sky blue seats were added to the stand in the summer of 2016. Above the central players’ entrance is a section of 20 seats for club officials. The structure’s distinguishing feature is a barrel-vaulted, propped, cantilevered roof. This high steel & perspex cover looks impressive but offers a limited amount of protection to those seated below. Certainly open to the elements is a bust of Pepe Castro Gonzalez that stands pitchside in front of the players’ entrance. The summer of 2016 also saw a small open-seated area added. This sits opposite the main stand on the halfway line. Barriero has an official capacity of 4,500, but where attendances are expected to exceed the 1,024 seats, matches are usually switched to the Estadio Balaidos. Celta Fortuna has also played fixtures at the club’s academy, the Instalaciones Deportivas de A Madroa.
The club adopted the Real Club Celta Fortuna title in 2023 and has regularly featured in the mix for promotion to La Segunda. Since 2017, the club has reached the playoffs on five occasions, winning the Grupo I Segunda B title in 2021, which earned a place in the Primera Federación. All of this pays testament to Celta’s youth academy, which has consistently produced players who go on to play for the first team and other top-flight clubs across Europe.
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