Estádio dos Aflitos

Náutico Capibaribe

The Estádio de Barros Carvalho Eládio is a football stadium in the Brazilian city of Recife. It can accommodate 19,800 spectators and serves the club Náutico Capibaribe as homestead.

History

The Estádio de Barros Carvalho Eládio in the Brazilian city of Recife, with just over a million inhabitants, the capital and largest city of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, was built in 1939 and still opened in the same year. On 25 June 1939, the future users of the club sports venue, the Club Náutico Capibaribe and local rivals Sport Recife met for a friendly match, which ended with a 5-2 for Náutico. During this opening game of Náutico player Wilson scored the first goal in the new stadium. Since 1939 Náutico Capibaribe uses the Estádio de Barros Carvalho Eládio as the venue for home games in football. The club may have as biggest success of his history the promotion for the Copa Libertadores 1968. In the first round here came from the third in a group of four behind Palmeiras São Paulo and the Venezuelan representative Deportivo Deportivo Galicia before and Portuguese. Furthermore, they won up to today 21 times the state championship of Pernambuco, the last track in this competition succeeded in 2004. In league play Náutico Capibaribe is currently to be found in the first Brazilian soccer league, the Série A, after last season (2011) from Série B had risen.

The Estádio de Barros Carvalho Eládio is named after Eládio de Barros Carvalho, a former long-time president of Náutico Capibaribe. In the vernacular, it is also known as Estádio dos Aflitos. Nowadays the Estádio de Barros Carvalho Eládio can accommodate 19,800 spectators. The record crowd in the stadium was erected, as at July 21, 1968 Náutico Capibaribe and Sport Recife clashed and 31,065 people wanted to watch the 1-0 victory of Náutico. In general, the capacity of the sports facility was greater in earlier years. For a long time summed up the stadium around 25,000 spectators. In the 1970s Náutico Capibaribe considered, at that time was at the peak of his sporting successes to build a new stadium for 80,000 spectators and demolish the Estádio de Barros Carvalho Eládio. These plans were never implemented. In 1996, then found renovations are taking place at the stadium, as a result, the capacity was reduced to the still valid today almost 20,000 spectators.

1968 Copa Libertadores
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