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The National Stadium of Costa Rica (Spanish: Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica) is a multi-purpose stadium in La Sabana Metropolitan Park, San José, Costa Rica.It was the first modern sporting and events arena to be built in Central America. [3]
Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica: Costa Rica: 35,062 5 Independence Park: Jamaica: ... National Cricket Stadium: Grenada: 20,000 19 Queen's Park Oval: Trinidad and Tobago:
Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica (Costa Rica National Stadium) was a multi-use stadium in La Sabana, San José, Costa Rica. It was used mostly for football matches. The stadium held 25,000 and was built in 1924. It was replaced by the current National Stadium in 2011. [1] The stadium played host to Amnesty International's Human Rights Now!
La Sabana Metropolitan Park's most prominent buildings are the country's national stadium and the Costa Rican Museum of Art. Both are sited within the park's green space. The stadium is located above the old stadium's former location. [5] The art museum is housed in the former main building of 'old' La Sabana Airport. [6]
It is the second-largest football stadium in Costa Rica after Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica (the current national stadium). The local mountains and downtown San José overlook Estadio Saprissa. In 2005, the stadium became the world's first to host a World Cup qualifying match on FieldTurf. The team replaced the FieldTurf field with a new ...
Saprissa plays home games at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá named after Ricardo Saprissa. They originally played at the Costa Rica National Stadium, which they rented and shared. A new site for a stadium was bought in 1965 and on 27 August 1972 after six years of construction and upgrades, Estadio Ricardo Saprissa was officially opened.
The following is an incomplete list of sports stadiums in North America, including Central America and the Caribbean. They are ordered by their seating capacity, that is the maximum number of seated spectators the stadium can accommodate.
In 1914, Club Sport Cartaginés got into the Costa Rican football scene with a new name: The Americano. The name Americano lasted until 1921 when Costa Rica's Primera División started its national championship. At that time, Americano reverted to its original name of Club Sport Cartaginés and changed their uniform and colors to vertical white ...