Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón
Racing Club Avellaneda
- Games from Racing Club Avellaneda
- Pan American Games 1951
- Final Copa Libertadores 1967
- Final World Cup 1967
- Final Supercopa Sudamericana 1988
- Final Copa Sudamericana 2007
- Recopa Sudamericana Finals 2008
The Estadio Presidente Perón is the club's football stadium of Argentine football club from Avellaneda Racing Club, the capital of the administrative area of Avellaneda in the Buenos Aires Province. In addition to the official name of the sports venue because of the shape and El Cilindro ( Cylinder ) or El Coliseo ( The Coliseum ) is called.
The stadium was opened on 3rd September 1950 with the match against Racing Club Avellaneda CA Velez Sarsfield (1-0 ). At this time the arena took 100,000 viewers. A year later, the first Pan American Games were opened in 1951 by Argentine President Juan Perón and namesake and his wife Eva Perón.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the floodlights hit 1966, the Racing Club and FC Bayern Munich ( 3-2 ) toward a friendly match. 1967 defeated Racing Club Avellaneda in the final of the Copa Libertadores Nacional Montevideo of Uruguay. So they played in the same year in the World Cup final against Celtic Glasgow in Scotland and won in three games. In the last game should have been in the stadium 115,000 spectators. The Racing Club reached the first final of the 1988 Supercopa Sudamericana against the Brazilian team Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte and won the Cup after return game.
In 1995 we started with the roof of the stadium. The transparent roof spanning the entire spectator stands. For this, the floodlights was renewed. The Estadio Presidente Perón is the first fully covered stadium in Argentina. This work was completed in 1997. The playing field is 105 x 78 meters one of the largest play areas in Argentina. 2002 the facility inside and out got a video surveillance system. By some renovations and safety regulations by the Argentine Association Asociación del Fútbol Argentino capacity fell to 64 161 places. As the first stadium in Argentina, the fence was removed before the grandstands in 2004.
The Arsenal de Sarandi in 2007 reached the final of the Copa Sudamericana against Club América of Mexico. The return match was held at the Estadio Presidente Perón larger, as Arsenal's stadium only holds around 16,000 spectators. A year later, Arsenal moved again to return to the city neighbors because they played the final of the Recopa Sudamericana against the CA Boca Juniors. Today, the venue for 51 389 spectators is permitted.