Taking place on 11 January, the 2026 Spanish Super Cup Final saw Barcelona claim a record 16th title over their bitter rivals, Real Madrid. Meanwhile off the pitch, the crowd at Jeddah’s King Abdullah Sports City Stadium became part of the spectacle, with 25,000 ENJOYGALAXY Apollo wireless pixel lights from ENJOY TECHNOLOGY installed seat-by-seat across an entire stand.
“The client wanted the stands to function as a large-scale visual canvas that could support the Opening Ceremony, enhance the live football broadcast, and elevate key emotional moments such as goals and the trophy presentation,” recalled ENJOY TECHNOLOGY’s General Manager and co-owner, Ada Chen. “The solution needed to work seamlessly across different phases of the event – from ceremony to live match play – while remaining reliable, fast to deploy, and clearly visible under full stadium lighting and broadcast conditions.”
Having been deployed at numerous landmark sporting occasions in the past, from the 2023 Asian Games to the 2025 UAE President’s Cup, the Apollo system is designed specifically for stadium environments. “Apollo combines high brightness, long battery life, and precise wireless control, ensuring reliable performance in the toughest of conditions,” Chen stated.
Each unit functions as an individually controllable pixel, which allowed an entire stand of 25,000 seats to operate as a single, large-scale visual display. “The system is fully wireless and centrally controlled, enabling both pre-programmed content and live-triggered effects during the match,” Chen noted.
On this project, the Apollo system was used throughout the event not only for the Opening Ceremony visuals, synchronising with floor projection, drones, and pyrotechnics, but also during play for goal celebrations. “We also utilised the system for a large-scale trophy animation during the award ceremony, reaching approximately 60m in height across the stand,” Chen revealed.
Despite the typically compressed schedule, with installation, system configuration, testing, and rehearsals all taking place within a very limited window while coordinating with multiple other show departments, the team utilised detailed pre-planning and close coordination with ceremony, broadcast, and venue teams to ensure that the entire system was installed, configured, and fully tested ahead of the final.
“We were particularly pleased with how seamlessly the system integrated into both the ceremonial and sporting aspects of the event,” Chen commented. “The fact that the same audience lighting system could support artistic opening visuals, enhance live goal moments, and deliver a powerful trophy presentation highlighted the flexibility of the solution. Equally important was the reliability of the system throughout the event, allowing the production team to focus on creative execution rather than technical limitations.”
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