Estadio Ciudad de La Plata
- Estudiantes de La Plata
- Games of Estudiantes de La Plata
- Final of the Copa Libertadores in 2009
- Copa America 2011
The Estadio Ciudad de La Plata (also known as Estadio Único ) is a football stadium in Toulouse, near the Argentine city of La Plata in La Plata Partido same name. It can accommodate 53,000 spectators and is used to Estudiantes de La Plata as homestead.
History
The Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province, was built in 2003. Since the club Estudiantes de La Plata more and more viewers could lure into Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi and only 20,000 capacity stadium was almost always sold out already it was decided late nineties to build a new stadium in La Plata. After the end of the construction phase, which lasted from 1997 to 2003, the stadium was opened in 2003. The first game in the new stadium, the two top clubs of La Plata, Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, and the future users of the arena, Estudiantes de La Plata arrived to a friendly match.
When it became known that Argentina would align the Copa América in 2011, the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata as one of eight stadiums selected for the tournament. For this reason it was closed temporarily in 2009, so that small renovations could be carried out. Among other things, a new roof for the stocked exclusively with seating arena was mounted. On 17 February 2011, the stadium was re-opened and six days after the first football match between Estudiantes and Deportes Tolima was part of a group game of the Copa Libertadores place in it.
In 2011, the Irish rock band U2 came (March 30, April 2 and 3; U2 360 ° Tour ), the American rock band Pearl Jam (November 13, Pearl Jam 20th anniversary tour) and singer Britney Spears ( November 20, femme fatale tour) in the new stadium on