Estadio Gran Parque Central
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Football stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay
Key facts
- Location
- Montevideo , Uruguay
- Owner
- Club Nacional de Football
- Capacity
- 34,361 (domestic) , 28,251 (international)
- Surface
- Grass
- Field size
- 105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
- Built
- 1898-99
- Opened
- 25 May 1900
- Renovated
- 1911, 1944, 1974, 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football venue
- Country
- Uruguay
- Located in
- Montevideo
- Sport
- association football
- Official website
- nacional.uy/es/club/instalaciones/gran-parque-central
- Image
- Eliminatorias Uruguay-Colombia 2021.jpg
- Significant event
- 1930 FIFA World Cup
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- maximum capacity
- 34000
- Commons category
- Estadio Gran Parque Central
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- Estadio Gran Parque Central
- native label
- Gran Parque Central
- date of official opening
- 1947-05-25
- inception
- 1900-05-25
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Encyclopedic overview
The Estadio Gran Parque Central is the stadium of Club Nacional de Football located in Montevideo, Uruguay, near Nacional headquarters (between the streets Carlos Anaya, Jaime Cibils, General Urquiza and Comandante Braga), in the La Blanqueada neighbourhood.
Due to various factors, it is considered a historical stadium. Built in 1900, it is the oldest current stadium in America and the fifteenth in the world. But it mainly stands out for having hosted the 1930 FIFA World Cup opening match, one of the first two matches in the history of the competition, when on 13 July 1930 United States defeated Belgium 3–0 in Group D. FIFA remembered this fact when in 2005 a delegation headed by its president, Joseph Blatter, came to visit the reforms and placed a commemorative plaque at the stadium. This historical fact was remembered by FIFA on two occasions: 1987 and 2005.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Estadio Gran Parque Central” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.