Estádio Palestra Itália

Palmeiras São Paulo (1917-2010)

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The Estádio Palestra Itália was a football stadium in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It provided space for 27,650 spectators last and serve the club Palmeiras Sao Paulo as homestead.

History

The Estádio Palestra Itália in São Paulo, located in the south of the country 's largest city of Brazil, was built in the years 1900 to 1901, opened on 3 May 1902. This made it one of the oldest stadiums in all of Brazil. From 1917 to 2010, the local club Palmeiras Sao Paulo contributed its home games at the Estádio Palestra Itália. Palmeiras was until today eight Brazilian football champions, their last title win succeeded in 1994. Moreover, three times, the Brazilian Cup could be won. At international level, Palmeiras was successful. Team reached four times the final of the Copa Libertadores, the most important football tournament for club teams in South America, once you won the final, and although in 1999 against Deportivo Cali of Colombia. For the Copa Libertadores games however Palmeiras more usually the larger Estádio do Morumbi out of the city rivals FC São Paulo, since the local stadium was too small for a final. Since the Estádio Palestra Itália of demolition in 2010 Palmeiras plays its home games at the Estádio do Pacaembu, which seats 38,000 spectators, from. Currently the club plays in the Brazilian league, the Série A.

The Estádio Palestra Itália in São Paulo took 27,650 spectators from demolition. Once the capacity of the stadium was 35,000 spectators. The record crowd in the stadium was reached when, on August 18, 1976 Palmeiras had a home game against XV de Piracicaba and 40 283 people came to the Estádio Palestra Itália. It has its name stadium after club Palmeiras. The user association of the stadium was formerly known as Palestra Itália Football Clube, yielding the stadium named after.

New

In 2010, the nearly century-old Estádio Palestra Itália was closed and demolished shortly afterwards. Currently, a new stadium is built on the territory of the old. The Arena Palestra Itália is to be completed in 2012 and inaugurated in April 2013. The arena will be according to the plans can accommodate 45,000 spectators. The Arena Palestra Itália was originally planned as a stadium for the World Cup 2014. After due consideration, however, another stadium in São Paulo was chosen, namely the Itaquera Arena, which is under construction, the future stadium of Corinthians.