Arena Corinthians
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Arena Corinthians during the 2014 World Cup
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| Full name | Arena Corinthians |
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| Location | Miguel Inácio Curi Avenue, 111 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Coordinates | 23°32′44″S 46°28′24″W / 23.545531°S 46.473373°WCoordinates: 23°32′44″S 46°28′24″W / 23.545531°S 46.473373°W |
| Public transit | Corinthians-Itaquera |
| Owner | Corinthians |
| Operator | Corinthians |
| Type | Stadium |
| Genre(s) | Sporting Events |
| Executive suites | 89 |
| Capacity | 49,205 68,727 (FIFA World Cup 2014) |
| Record attendance | 63,267 (Netherlands – Argentina, 9 July 2014) |
| Field size | 105 by 68 metres (115 by 74 yd) |
| Field shape | rectangular |
| Surface | Perennial Ryegrass with Artificial Fibres (Desso GrassMaster) |
| Scoreboard | Four high-resolution 30 by 7.5 metres (32.8 by 8.2 yd) LED screens |
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| Broke ground | 30 May 2011 |
| Built | 30 May 2011 – 15 April 2014 |
| Opened | 10 May 2014 |
| Construction cost |
R$ 965 Million US$ 435 million EU€ 319 million |
| Architect | Aníbal Coutinho |
| Project manager | Andrés Sánchez |
| Structural engineer | Werner Sobek |
| Services engineer | Frederico Barbosa |
| Main contractors | Odebrecht |
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The Arena Corinthians is a sports stadium located in São Paulo, Brazil and owned, operated, and used by Sport Club Corinthians Paulista. It has a seating capacity of 49,205, making it the fifth-largest stadium used by teams in the top tier of the Brazilian League and the eleventh-largest in Brazil.
It hosted six matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, including the opening match on 12 June 2014. Because of a requirement for it to have at least 65,000 seats for the World Cup opening match, temporary seats were added to the stadium for the tournament. The temporary seats started to be removed shortly after the last World Cup match.
In 1980, Corinthians was planning to build a new 201,304-capacity stadium, as their own Alfredo Shürig Stadium held fewer than 14,000 people and city's Pacaembu Stadium had to be shared with other teams. Plans to build a new stadium required a large area. The club's president Vicente Matheus asked for a concession from São Paulo's mayor Olavo Setúbal in the Itaquera region, east of the city centre. The mayor accepted the request 10 November 1978 and a concession for 90 years was granted on 26 December 1978 for a 197,095.14 square metres (2,121,514.4 sq ft) property. The area was owned at the time by COHAB, an agency for public housing controlled by the São Paulo City government. The original plan was to build the stadium in three to five years. The concession was renewed in 1988 for 90 years, with the condition that any construction made in the area would revert to the city at no cost. However, funding was not obtained and other alternatives were considered, such as a concession for the Pacaembu Stadium and demolishing the Alfredo Schürig Stadium making room for another.
On 31 August 2010, Corinthians announced the construction of the stadium with an estimated cost of R$335 million and an expected gross revenue of R$100 million per year. The original plans allow for an expansion to 70,000 seats. The club expected to get financing from BNDES and sell the naming rights for the stadium to pay for the construction costs. The main architect of the project was Aníbal Coutinho; he was assisted by Antônio Paulo Cordeiro from Coutinho, Diegues, Cordeiro (DDG), partnering with Werner Sobek, who rendered structural engineering services. The stadium was planned to be completed by March 2013.
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