Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez

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• Dominican national football team
• Club Barcelona Atlético
• Bauger FC

• Central American and Caribbean Games in 1974
• XIV Pan American Games in 2003

The Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez is a football stadium with track and field facility in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. It was built at the 12th Central American and Caribbean Games in 1974. The stadium is part of a built 1966-1974 sports complex named Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte.

The stadium is mainly used for the games of the national football team of the Dominican Republic, and the local football clubs Club Atlético Barcelona and FC Bauger. It's also used for athletic events and concerts. The capacity is 27,000 spectators at sporting events, up to 35,000 but were sometimes far in the stadium. At concerts, 60,000 spectators are possible.

Here athletics competitions and football matches were played in the XIV Pan American Games in 2003.

The former Estadio Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte was renamed in 2004. It assumed its present name after Félix Sánchez, the 400 -meter hurdles Olympic champion in 2004 and 2012.

Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte

The complex has 18 major sporting venues. With 20 million DOP construction costs (1974 ), it now includes the stadium, among other things an athletics track, a multi-purpose sports hall, a swimming stadium, a velodrome, soft and baseball fields, two volleyball halls, a judo hall and a tennis complex on an area of ​​over 722,000 square meters.

For the Pan American Games in 2003, the system for 449 700 000 DOP ( approximately 9 million euro ) was renovated and expanded.