The Rise and Fall of Valencia

In 2014 Peter Lim became the majority shareholder at 6 time La Liga champions Valencia. His arrival was initially celebrated, but after years of financial turbulence, the fans are demanding his exit to preserve the club’s future.

What happened to Valencia? Why did it turn so toxic so quickly? What happened to their best players? And what happened to their new stadium?

Reuben Pinder explains. Illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.

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[MrOfficialSongz]

I remember Valencia kits were selling more than some popular premier league clubs in early 2000’s they had an international fan base

[kingbokor]

You knew the owner was bad when he appointed untested Gary Neville 😂

[anarcho-boulangistllamaent]

Fun fact: Valencia is one of only three clubs (alongside Stade de Reims and Atletico Madrid) to have played in more than one European Cup/Champions League final without ever having won the trophy.

[THEADZBRADZ]

It's actually very sad as a Valencia fan. This club deserves a better owner.

[SergioRPerez]

I remembered Valencia playing so well the UCL final against Bayern. Hope this club can recover and comeback to the glory days.

[Mixcoatl]

I've always had a soft sport for Valencia. It once seemed like they might be able to challenge the dominance of the big 2.5 in Spain. I'm sad it never came to pass.

[anamitrasikdar]

Valencia were for a very long time the 3rd best team in Spain and is still the third most supported Spanish club in Spain. It's really sad to see their downfall. Hope they stay up this season and manage to stay in La Liga for the foreseeable future. It's never nice to see big clubs going down.

[usedsweatpants]

That early in 2000’s team was so enjoyable to watch kily Gonzalez, mendieta, zahovic aimar ayala angulo Angloma Cláudio Lopez Gerard. And the terra mítica kit. Playing PES2 on psx1 doing the master league … ah the memories

[joewi]

I'm a Valencia fan and this is such a good piece! Not easy for foreign media to have such a clear picture of what's going on locally, you love to see it!

[mhkpt]

When Peter Lim's daughter put on Instagram that they own the club and can do whatever they like with it, I was livid, and I'm not even a Valencia fan. Anyone who would say that about my own club would be thrown out the same day.

[sudiptab]

Goes to show how much a good owner is necessary for a club to thrive

[Mack.g]

They were in the last 16 of UCL just 3 years ago. I was so surprised when I saw them in the relegation zone this season. Sad, like Schalke and Leicester.

[MystClips]

Valencia before Simeone's arrival they had the 3rd highest point tally of all time in la Liga.
Since the 2000s, 2 LaLigas, 2 Champions League finals (1 lost in penalties to Bayern), won the Europa League, a few Copas del Rey and a regular in European competitions.
For a short while Valencia felt like a more attractive option for some players than Barcelona to sign to, having World Class players, but during Mourinho-Guardiola era it felt like they had cemented themself as a valid 3rd place team, as financial issues ramped up, creating a "stagnation" that led to title races being a thing of the past.

It kind of reminded me of the Dortmund or Schalke of the Bundesliga, I just hope it doesnt follow through with going down like Schalke did...

They had the stadium being built that would have 72k capacity to capitalise on their success and massive fanbase but, as mentioned, now paralised since 2009. Now there is talks of downgrading its design and capacity by like 10-15k and remove the plans for an underground parking lot (which makes the project feel kind of redundant) just to continue the build because obvious the city council has complained about the massive ruins of cement in middle of the beautiful city...


An interesting Story is that the Prince of Johor, who basically created the most successful football team in Malaysia and is close to Peter Lim, showed repeated serious intentions of BUYING the club off Lim, watching matches at the stadium and posting about the legacy, history of the club, how beautiful the city is and how he would like to contribute to its success on his Instagram. However, after talks with Lim, the posibility of the takeover seemed to have vanished out of nowhere, either because of the incredibly strict Financial regulations imposed in LaLiga on clubs, making spending very restrictive, specially if these clubs are managing a debt, such as Barcelona or Valencia; or because he was straight up rejected by Lim because he refused to let go of "his asset".


I guess thats what the Worst Owners possible for almost 10 years, bad owners prior to Lim, bad dealing with debt plus other financial issues and HORRIBLY intrusive punishing LaLiga financial restrictions by Tebas does to a club that could and should 100% be in Atletico Madrid's position competing alongside them :(

[parashit]

During the Genius Emery reign, Valencia got Villa, Mata, and Silva. I though, damn they would be better than Rafa Benitez era.

Then, all of sudden they blew the team up 😅
They also still have Vicente, Joaquin, Banega, Pablo Hernandez. One of the most exiting offensive team in the world.

[runrafarunthebestintheworld]

The Fall of Valencia quite sad. It's gonna end up being like the fall of Sunderland, Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest with all there history.. 😢

[monkeykong]

Thank you for this video, it’s terrible how Valencia has been run but it is also a huge shame that so few people outside Spain seem to care (and that those running Spanish football don’t care either)

[xxitactical_]

Valencia have always been my favourite Spanish club when I visited Valencia and were so kind to me

[OtakuVonBismarck]

The history-like series of rise & fall is my favourite from Tifo. Incredible content and massive respect for Valencia, they should be a regular top 4. Also would be nice to see a Fall & Fall of Preston(the only former English champions that never played Premier League football and not even top level football since 1961) or a Fall & Rise of Ipswich(who are almost league one champions and things look good since the partnership with Ed Sheeran) or a Fall & possible rise of Sheffield Wednesday(four time English champions, absent from Premier League since 2000) or to go somewhere else from England, a Fall & Fall of Pro Vercelli(the team that has more league titles than Napoli, Fiorentina and Lazio combined, absent from Serie A since before ww2).

[kole]

I pray to god they don't get relegated. That club played a major role in my childhood.

[itsmebenb]

I was at the Real Sociadad game where they had protests and the 19th min whistle blowing whilst visiting Valencia in February. Even though the club is in turmoil on and off the pitch, you could really feel how passionate the fans are, and it's horrible to witness what bad ownership can do to a once great club. Got my fingers crossed for them 🤞