Estadio Garcilaso

SC Cienciano

• Copa America 2004
• Games of SC Cienciano

The Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega is a football stadium in the Peruvian city of Cusco. It can accommodate 42,000 spectators and serves the club Club Sportivo Cienciano as homestead.

The Estadio Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was built in 1950. It is named after the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), a Peruvian writer and chronicler of the history of the Incas and the conquest of Peru by the Spaniards. At that time the capacity was still 30,000 places. Since 1950 the club Club Sportivo Cienciano which, although it never could be Peruvian champion, but winning the Copa Sudamericana secured in the final against Boca Juniors from Argentina in 2003 bears. In addition, the Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega is the home of Deportivo Garcilaso, which plays in a lower league.

At the Copa América in 2004, the host was able to secure Peru, Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega was rebuilt and expanded its capacity to 42 056 spectators. The Government of Peru presented for the renovation of large amounts of money available to renovate the outdated stadium. In this Copa America took the third place match between Colombia and Uruguay, which won the Urus 2-1, held in Cusco.