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The Estádio Municipal Epaminondas Mendes Brito is a football stadium in the Brazilian city of Ipatinga. It can accommodate 27,500 spectators and serves the club Ipatinga FC as homestead.

The Estádio Municipal Epaminondas Mendes Brito in Ipatinga, a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was built in 1982 and on 23 November the same year. For the first game in the new stadium, a city team Ipatinga and the Brazilian top club Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte met a friendly match, which ended with a 3-0 for the guest from the largest city of Minas Gerais. Here, the Cruzeirospieler Eudes scored the first goal in this stadium. Since 1982 it is used by the local club FC Ipatinga as the venue for home games. The greatest success of the club is to win the state championship of Minas Gerais. This competition could win in 2005, 2002 and 2006 was reached in each case the final. In league play you will find Ipatinga FC currently in the third-class Série C, after they finished the relegation zone in the Série B in the past season. The club was founded in 1998 also played one season (2008) in the Série A, but immediately rose again. The Estádio Municipal Epaminondas Mendes Brito is currently being used by the two clubs Cruzeiro Belo Horinzonte - Atletico Mineiro and as a venue for home games because their stadium is located just under construction. The Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto is being renovated from 2011 to 2013, since the 2014 World Cup to be held, among other things, the stadium of Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro. Also some home games of the smaller social club FC from the neighboring village of Coronel Fabriciano the Estádio Municipal Epaminondas Mendes Brito take place, as the stadium of the club is very small and in some games, such as local derbies a higher number of spectators is expected.

The Estádio Municipal Epaminondas Mendes Brito in Ipatinga today can accommodate 27,500 spectators. The record crowd was reached when on 7 April 1996 had started a game, the state championship of Minas Gerais in Ipatinga and 25,000 spectators came to Ipatingão to see the 2-1 victory by Atletico Mineiro Cruzeiro Belo on Horinzonte. The stadium is named after Epaminondas Mendes Brito, who planned the stadium, but died before the completion of the stadium.