Estadio Deportivo Cali
- Games of Deportivo Cali
- Concerts
The Estadio Deportivo Cali is a stadium in the Colombian city of Palmira. It can accommodate 53,347 spectators and is used to Deportivo Cali as homestead.
History
The Estadio Deportivo Cali was built in 2008. Since then its home games, the club Deportivo Cali carries out here in the Estadio Olimpico Pascual Guerrero was at home before, and there played in the same stadium as the local rival América de Cali. As the first club in Colombia Deportivo built its own stadium. The club is the most famous in Colombia. He was until today eight times Colombian soccer champions and came twice to the finals of the Copa Libertadores, the continental competition for club teams in South America, however, where one failed both times. With the success of Deportivo Cali it was natural, therefore, to build their own stadium, which opened in 2008 with the play of the national team of Colombia against Nigeria. Colombia won it 1-0.
The Estadio Deportivo Cali is just one of many planned stadium projects for large clubs, but the only one that was actually built. There were also still own stadiums for CD Los Millonarios, Atlético Nacional and Independiente Medellín planned, however, were not realized, as the Colombian football, which had benefited in its heyday in the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, from drug trafficking, is in an economic crisis and sporting and thereby the construction of separate stages and the money associated expenditure were impossible. In Cali but the stadium was actually built. In addition to football competitions and concerts are held here.