Estádio Olímpico do Pará

The Estádio Olímpico do Pará is a football stadium in the Brazilian city of Belém. It can accommodate 45,007 spectators and serves the clubs Paysandu SC, Clube do Remo and Sports Club Belém as the venue of many home games.

History

The Estádio Olímpico do Pará was commissioned by the government of the state of Pará in order in 1969. The architect Alcyr Meira should a stadium plan, which seats 120,000 spectators. These plans, however, were discarded, and the seating capacity has been reduced to 70,000 seats. In 1970 started the construction of the stadium, eight years later in 1978 took place on 4 March, the opening of the new sports complex. For the first match at the Estádio Olímpico do Pará met a selection of the state of Pará and the junior national team of Uruguay. The game ended 4-0 for Pará, the first goal in the new stadium scored Mesquita. Since then, the Estádio Olímpico do Pará is used for the staging of home games of local clubs again and again, each of these clubs, which are best known Paysandu SC, who played a long time in the Série A, the top division in Brazil, and Clube do Remo, has its own stadium and most of its home games discharges there. Only to play with greater expected crowd is evaded in the great stadium of Belém. The most important match at the Estádio Olímpico do Pará was the final of the Copa dos Champ, a Brazilian cup competition, which took place from 2000 to 2002, in 2002. Those days Paysandu SC defeated in Belém Cruzeiro 3-0 on penalties.

The Estádio Olímpico do Pará, also known as Estádio Estadual Mangueirão or Jornalista Edgar Augusto Proença nowadays can accommodate 45,007 spectators. This capacity has been reached anno 2002 as part of renovations, which modernized the stadium and the capacity was reduced from 70,000 to 45,007 spectators valid today. The record crowd in the stadium was reached when, on July 11, 1999 took place the local derby between the Clube do Remo and Paysandu SC and 65,000 spectators came to the stadium. The attendance record after the conversion is dated 15 May 2003 as Paysandu played against Boca Juniors from Argentina and 57 248 spectators came to the crowded venue. For some time the stadium as the venue for the FIFA World Cup in 2014 was in conversation, the Brazilian Association then decided to but a new building called Arena Amazônia in Manaus.