Estadio Campeón del Siglo
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| Full name | Estadio Campeón del Siglo |
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| Location | Route 102, Bañados de Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Coordinates | 34°47′48.9″S 56°04′01.8″W / 34.796917°S 56.067167°WCoordinates: 34°47′48.9″S 56°04′01.8″W / 34.796917°S 56.067167°W |
| Owner | C.A. Peñarol |
| Capacity | 40,000 |
| Field size | 105 × 68 m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Scoreboard | LED TV |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | February 10, 2014 |
| Built | 2014–2016 |
| Opened | March 28, 2016 |
| Construction cost | US$40m |
| Architect | Luis Rodríguez Tellado & associates |
| General contractor | Saceem |
| Tenants | |
 C.A. Peñarol
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Estadio Campeón del Siglo is a football stadium located in Bañados de Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay, and the home ground of Peñarol, current First Division champions. It has a maximum capacity of 40,000.
The stadium is built with all FIFA standards taken into account, plus the possibility of a reform and an expansion in mind; thought of as possible host for a proposed 2030 FIFA World Cup by Uruguay.
Projects to own a stadium date back to the 20th century, but never managed to materialize. Although the club already owned the Estadio Contador Damiani (former Las Acacias) since 1916, it is currently not approved for Uruguayan Primera División matches by authorities, due to lack of security, and it is used by the club's youth divisions instead.
The first project dates back to 1933, when the team presented a project to build a stadium near Montevideo's promenade, same place in which now the popular Teatro de Verano is found. Half a century later, in 1998, the club announced plans, presenting a real life model, of a stadium to be built in the Franklin D. Roosevelt park near Avenida Gianattassio, in Canelones. On the successive years, under the command of club president José Pedro Damiani, continuous projects were presented, which all planned for a 40 thousand seat stadium.
Considered the first project held by Peñarol for a club-owned stadium, it is registered in the club's 1933 Annual Report & Financial Statements, in which '(...)it is proposed and less than solved the practical execution of Parque Rodó Stadium'. In this document, a 30 thousand capacity multi-purpose stadium is planned. It was thought to hold basketball, cycling, boxing and volleyball events, apart from the club's most successful and popular sport, football.
Presented in 2005. It would be located in Canelones, with an approximate capacity of 32.500 people. It was shaped similarly to Peñarol's then local stadium, Estadio Centenario, and its stands were to be named in honour of the club's greatest glories, such as, for example Obdulio Varela, Juan Schiaffino, Fernando Morena, Pablo Bengoechea, Diego Aguirre, Alberto Spencer and Ladislao Mazurkiewicz.
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