Estádio Urbano Caldeira

Santos

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The Estádio Urbano Caldeira is a football stadium in the Brazilian city of Santos. It can accommodate 21,256 spectators and serves the FC Santos as homestead.

The Estádio Urbano Caldeira in Santos, a port city in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, was built in 1916. On 12 October of the year was followed by the opening of the new stadium. Four years earlier, Santos was founded, which uses the stadium since its construction as the venue for their home games. Santos was three times Brazilian football champions today and once won the Cup in the country. In addition, the club twice each succeeded in winning the Copa Libertadores, the continental competition from South America, and the World Cup, both in 1962 and 1963. Those days played at FC Santos of vielleich best football players of all time, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele. The three-time world champions played almost his entire career at Santos. In a championship game in 1964 against Botafogo in this stadium alone Pelé scored eight goals in a 11-0 victory. On 2 October 1974, he played his last game as an active soccer player also in this stadium in a 2-0 against AA Ponte Preta.

The Estádio Urbano Caldeira's capacity is 21,256 spectators today. A record crowd was reached when on September 20, 1964 Corinthians guest appearances from São Paulo, Santos. The 0:0 between these two teams saw nearly 33,000 spectators. In the same year a total of 181 people died in the Estádio Urbano Caldeira, when a stampede broke out. Then some security precautions have been taken and there was hardly any overcrowding admitted. In 1997 a renovation was carried out in the stadium, in which, among other modern electronics were installed and a new turf was used. Since then, the stadium is one of the best equipped in Brazil. Opened in 2003, Santos is a museum in the interior of the stadium, where the visitor can gain an overview of the history of the club.