Arena da Amazônia

Arena da Amazônia
The Arena da Amazônia in March 2014
Data
place	Manaus , Brazil
Coordinates	3 ° 4 '59 "  S , 60 ° 1' 41"  W Coordinates: 3 ° 4 '59 "  S , 60 ° 1' 41"  W
start of building	2010
opening	March 9, 2014
surface	Natural grass
costs	669.5 million R $ (approx. 206 million euros)
architect	gmp
capacity	44,310 seats
Societies)
Nacional FC (AM)
Events
Football World Cup 2014 2016 Summer Olympics Copa Libertadores Femenina : 2018

The Arena da Amazônia is a football stadium in the Brazilian city ​​of Manaus , Amazonas state . The stadium offers 44,310 seats and was the venue for four matches of the 2014 World Cup .

history

The arena was designed in 2009 by the German architecture firm gmp in a joint venture with the engineering firm Schlaich Bergermann und Partner . The Estádio Vivaldo Lima (known as Vivaldão ), which was completed in 1970 and was demolished for the new construction, was located at its location until 2011 .

The stadium is still criticized for its questionable sustainability. There were initially no plans for using it after the 2014 World Cup , as the World Cup venue in Manaus does not have a top-class soccer team. There was only minimal investment in the city's other infrastructure (such as in a new airport ) up to the 2014 World Cup , and many projects had to be postponed due to lack of time. Protests during the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup resulted in demonstrations against the stadium in Manaus. The venue was also criticized by the coaches of the participating World Cup teams, such as Ottmar Hitzfeld , as the tropical climate required extreme physical exertion from the players.

Up until the beginning of February 2014, four workers died during construction work on the arena, which is why workers stopped working. As a result, the completion could not be kept by mid-February.

After almost four years of construction, the opening was celebrated on March 9, 2014. A cup game between two regional teams was watched by around 20,000 visitors, as only the lower grandstand ring was open to spectators. The construction costs totaled R $ 669.5 million (around EUR 206 million).

2014 World Cup matches

Interior view of the stadium in January 2014

The following games took place in the stadium during the World Cup:

Sat., June 14, 2014, 6:00 p.m. (Sun., June 15, 2014, 00:00 a.m. CEST) Group D
England	-	Italy	1: 2 (1: 1)
Wed., June 18, 2014, 6:00 p.m. (Thu., June 19, 2014, 00:00 a.m. CEST) Group A
Cameroon	-	Croatia	0: 4 (0: 1)
Sun., June 22, 2014, 6:00 p.m. (Mon., June 23, 2014, 00:00 a.m. CEST) Group G
United States	-	Portugal	2: 2 (0: 1)
Wed., June 25, 2014, 4:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) Group E.
Honduras	-	Switzerland	0: 3 (0: 2)

Web links

Commons : Arena Amazônia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Arena da Amazônia. In: Structurae

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Arena Amazônia - Manaus , fifa.com
2. ↑ Arena da Amazônia
3. ↑ Criticism of the stadium
4. ^ The death stadium in the jungle: Where the Swiss national team meets Honduras. bz Basel , December 22, 2013, accessed on February 13, 2014 . 
5. ↑ International: News , kicker-Sportmagazin # 14/2014, Olympia-Verlag Nürnberg, February 10, 2014, p. 54
6. ↑ rp-online.de: After four years of construction: World Cup stadium "Arena da Amazonia" in Manaus opened. Article dated March 10, 2014
7. ↑ g1.globo.com: Arena da Amazônia, estádio de Manaus para Copa, é inaugurada article of March 10, 2014 (Portuguese)