Estadio Alejandro Villanueva
- Games of Alianza Lima
The Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, also often called Matute, is a football stadium in the Peruvian capital Lima. It can accommodate 35,000 spectators and is the home stadium of the club Alianza Lima.
The construction of the Estadio Alejandro Villanueva began in 1969. After more than five years of construction, the arena was completed in 1974 and inaugurated on December 27 of that year. The first discharged in the new stadium match took place between Alianza Lima and the Uruguayan club Nacional Montevideo. The final score was 1:1. Here, the stadium was slightly crowded in the very first game, because instead of the approved 35,000 spectators filled the ranks of the 37,000 Estadio Alejandro Villanueva. In 1951 the construction of a stadium for Alianza Lima on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the club was decided. Due to economic problems of the stadium, however, was initially postponed. It was only in 1969 began construction of a new stadium for Alianza Lima. After completion, the venue was renamed Estadio Alianza Lima. In the year 2000, about a quarter of a century after the inauguration of the stadium, renaming one of the most important players followed in Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, based on Alejandro Villanueva ( 1908-1944 ), in the club's Alianza Lima.
The stadium has four floodlight towers that were installed in 1980. On the area of Estadio Alejandro Villanueva also include a gymnasium, stations for radio and television, a medical unit, ample parking and a room for press conferences, some administrative offices, and a shopping center which serves for better marketing and ensure economic growth in this district should.