Estadio Alfonso López
Atlético Bucaramanga
- Games of Atlético Bucaramanga
The Estadio Alfonso López is a stadium in the Colombian city of Bucaramanga. It can accommodate 28,000 spectators and serves the Atlético Bucaramanga as homestead.
The Estadio Alfonso López in Bucaramanga, a city of just over 500,000 inhabitants in the province of Santander in northeastern Colombia, was built in 1941 and opened on 12 December of the same year. As in 1949, the club Atlético Bucaramanga was founded, he chose the stadium as its home ground. Atlético Bucaramanga is one of the smaller clubs in Colombian professional football and could never win the Colombian football championship. The greatest success of the association is probably taking part in the Copa Libertadores 1998, where it survived in a group with América de Cali and the Ecuadorian representatives Barcelona SC Guayaquil and Deportivo Quito, the group stage and only in the second round at the Club Bolívar with a 1:2 failed in domestic Estadio Alfonso López and a 0-1 in the return match in La Paz. Currently playing Atlético Bucaramanga in Colombia's second league.
The Estadio Alfonso López Alfonso López Pumarejo is named after (1886-1959), a Colombian liberal politician and twice president of the country. It now has a capacity of 28,000 spectators. This capacity was after renovations in preparation taking place in Bucaramanga 1996 Juegos Nacionales Deportivo which is taking annual national multi sporting event in Colombia. Previously, 12,000 respectively after first finishing work early seventies 20,000 people in the stadium area. In addition, the U-20 South American Championship Women 2010 took place in Colombia and the Estadio Alfonso López served as a venue, among other things for the game for third place and the final, which Brazil won 2-0 against Colombia. The men national of Colombia already played in the stadium of Atlético Bucaramanga. It will also find competitions in other sports, such as freestyle motocross, and also concerts, instead.