Estádio Serra Dourada
Goiás EC Atlético Goianiense Vila Nova FC
- Copa América 1989
The Estádio Serra Dourada is a football stadium in the Brazilian city of Goiânia. It can accommodate 41 574 spectators and is the clubs Goiás EC, Atlético Goianiense and Vila Nova FC as homestead. The name of the stadium refers to the mountains in the northwest of Goiás, the Serra Dourada.
The Estádio Serra Dourada in Goiânia, capital of the Brazilian state of Goiás in the interior of the country, was built in 1975 and opened on 9 March of the same year. For the first game in the new stadium is a selection of Goiás and the national soccer team of Portugal met for a friendly match, the Goiás won 2-1. In this game, 79 610 spectators came to the Estádio Serra Dourada, which to this day is the attendance record.
Since 1975, the stadium is used by the three major clubs from Goiânia as the venue for home games. However, Goiás EC, Atlético Goianiense and Vila Nova FC have their own, smaller stages, so that they only resort to games where a larger number of spectators is expected to Estádio Serra Dourada. A title could these three clubs still not win, but at least Estádio Serra Dourada housed the in 2010 the Final first leg of the Copa Sudamericana. The first leg was won by Goiás EC in Goiânia 2-0 against the Argentine representative CA Independiente Avellaneda out, they lost in the second leg at the Estadio Libertadores de América, however, first with 1:3 and then 3:5 on penalties. The greatest successes of teams from Goiânia are some titles in the state championship of Goiás, who won each of the three clubs at least 11 times. Currently playing Atlético Goianiense in the Série A, Goiás EC in the Série B and Villanova also FC in the second division.
The Estádio Serra Dourada in Goiânia was a venue for the Copa America of 1989. Here, the stadium was that with a spectator capacity of 22,000 seats, the smallest of the four stages, but there were ten games in the stadium. The further stages in this tournament were the 145,000 -seat Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, the 60,000 -seat Estádio do Arruda Recife and approved for Estádio Fonte Nova 30,000 spectators in Salvador da Bahia. The low capacity of 22,000 seats at the time of the Copa América is because to international competitions only seats are approved and at the time there were a lot of standing room at the Estádio Serra Dourada.