Step Back in Time: Valencia and Elche Set to Light Up LaLiga's Glorious Retro Matchday

There are fixtures, and then there are occasions. This Saturday's clash between Elche CF and Valencia CF at the Martínez Valero is shaping up to be very much the latter. Matchday 31 of the 2025-26 LaLiga EA Sports season will be transformed into something truly special, as the entire division celebrates its much-anticipated "Retro Matchday", a glorious nod to football's past where clubs across both the First and Second Division will pull on vintage kits and play with a period-specific ball that belongs to another era entirely. For Valencia supporters, the nostalgia will hit particularly hard and wonderfully so. Los Che will take to the pitch in a kit whose design reaches all the way back to the early 1990s, a reimagining of the iconic alternative strip the club wore across the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons. It is the kind of detail that sends a shiver down the spine of any long-serving fan, transporting them back to a time when football felt raw, passionate and beautifully uncomplicated. Kick-off at the Martínez Valero is set for 16:15 on Saturday April 11, and with the retro atmosphere promising to wrap the stadium in a warm blanket of nostalgia, this is one matchday that deserves to be savoured well beyond the final whistle.