Estadio Santa Laura-Universidad SEK

Unión Española

• Games of Unión Española

The Estadio Santa Laura is a football stadium in the Chilean capital Santiago. It can accommodate 22,000 spectators and serves the club Unión Española as a home ground.

The Estadio Santa Laura was built in 1922 to 1923. After over a year of construction, it was opened against Audax Italiano on 12 November 1923, the game Unión Española. The first league game at the new stadium rose in 1933, ten years after the completion of the arena, between Audax Italiano and Morningstar. Since the opening of the Estadio Santa Laura the club Unión Española aligns Santiago de Chile here its home games, the stadium also hosted the home matches of other Chilean teams was in the meantime, such as Audax Italiano in the 1930s.

The old Estadio Santa Laura was demolished in 2005 and replaced by a new one, because at the place where there was the old stadium, a shopping chain wanted to build a hall. The new stadium was modernized in 2009 and currently has a capacity of 22,000 spectators on ranks.

The Estadio Santa Laura was even some musicians as a venue for concerts. So already played here, for example, Deep Purple. In concert by American rock band a tower toppled. In this case, 35 people were injured. Since then, athletic events take place only in the stadium.

• Football stadium in Chile
• Built in the 1920s
• Sports (Santiago de Chile)
• Football stadium in South America