Estadio Cuauhtémoc

Estadio Cuauhtémoc
Coloso de la Colonia Maravillas
The stadium when it reopened on November 18, 2015.
Data
place	Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza , Puebla , Mexico
Coordinates	19 ° 4 ′ 41 ″  N , 98 ° 9 ′ 52 ″  W Coordinates: 19 ° 4 ′ 41 ″  N , 98 ° 9 ′ 52 ″  W
owner	State of Puebla
start of building	June 30, 1967
opening	October 6, 1968 November 18, 2015
Renovations	1985–1986, 2014–2015
surface	Natural grass
costs	733 million MXN (2014-2015)
architect	Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
capacity	51,726 seats
playing area	105 × 68 m
Societies)
Puebla FC
Events
Puebla FC matches (since 1968) Olympic football tournament 1968 Football World Cup 1970 Junior World Cup 1983 Soccer World Cup 1986 Final first leg of the 1991 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Copa Interamericana 1992 CONCACAF U-20 Championship 2013

The Estadio Cuauhtémoc is a football stadium in the Mexican metropolis of Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza , around 128 kilometers southeast of the capital Mexico City , which is characterized by its construction. Until 2014 it consisted of a completely closed lower tier and two attached, roofed upper tiers on the main and opposite stands. Since 2015, the two back-gate stands have also had a covered upper tier. The main user is the football club Puebla FC , currently in the Liga MX , the highest football league in the country.

history

Construction of the Estadio Cuauhtémoc began on June 30, 1967 and lasted until September 1968. It was inaugurated on October 6, 1968 and at that time offered 35,563 seats. It was a venue for the 1968 Olympic soccer tournament, as well as three preliminary round games of the 1970 soccer world championship and a total of five games of the 1986 soccer world championship , including the game for third place. The only national teams that played games here at both of the World Cups held in Mexico were Uruguay and Italy .

The stadium did not get its name as a reminiscence of the last Aztec ruler , but because the Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma brewery had assumed a high share of the financing costs and in return secured the naming rights to the stadium.

1968 Summer Olympics

The Estadio Cuauhtémoc was next to the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City , the Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara and the Estadio Nou Camp in León the venue for the 1968 Olympic football tournament . Three group A and B group matches were played. There was also the quarter-finals with hosts Mexico against Spain (2-0).

World Championship 1970

The Estadio Cuauhtémoc was one of five stadiums in which the games of the 1970 World Cup were played. However, the fewest games took place here with only three. All the encounters were group B preliminary round matches with the participation of the Uruguayan national soccer team, which had to deal with Israel (2: 0), Italy (0: 0) and Sweden (0: 1). Due to the defeat against Sweden on the last day of the match, Uruguay lost the group victory to Italy, but was in second place due to the better goal difference (2: 1) against Sweden (2: 2), with whom they had tied on points, and were therefore able to win also qualify for the quarter-finals. There they prevailed 1-0 after extra time against the Soviet Union team and ended the 1970 World Cup in fourth place after losing to Brazil (1: 3) and Germany (0: 1).

1986 World Championship

Also at the 1986 World Cup, the Estadio Cuauhtémoc was one of 12 stadiums in which a total of 52 games were played. Five games took place in Puebla: two group A preliminary round matches (Italy against Argentina 1: 1 and against South Korea 3: 2), a round of 16 encounter (Argentina against Uruguay 1: 0), a quarter-finals (in which Belgium 5: 4 in Penalty shoot-out against Spain) as well as the game for third place, in which Belgium this time lost 4-2 to France after extra time.

Renovation 2014–2015

Extensive renovation work on the stadium began at the end of 2014. They included the modernization of the venue, the assembly of a new facade and an increase in the space available. The Estadio Cuauhtémoc received around 9,000 additional seats and now offers a total of 51,726 seats. As with the main and opposite stands, an upper tier was placed on each of the two rear stands. The venue was wrapped in a facade made of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) in the club colors white and blue . The ETFE was also used at the Munich Allianz Arena . It is the first stadium in Mexico with this material. On November 18, 2015, the modernized stadium was reopened with a game between Puebla FC and Boca Juniors (1-0) from Buenos Aires . 733 million was MXN (around 37 million € invested) in the renovation.

gallery

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  The stadium before the renovation (2008).

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  The interior of the stadium about an hour before Puebla FC's game against Atlas Guadalajara on March 1, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Estadio Cuauhtémoc  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• clubpuebla.com: History of the Estadio Cuauhtémoc on the Puebla FC website (Spanish)
• europlan-online.de: Picture gallery from 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ library.la84.org: Official report on the 1968 Summer Olympics - page 75/76 (English, French)
2. ↑ estadios.de: Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ stadionwelt.de: Pictures of the Estadio Multiva after the renovation work, article from January 24, 2016
4. ↑ angulo7.com.mx: Con remodelación, Estadio Cuauhtémoc es cuarto con mayor capacidad ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article of November 13, 2015 (Spanish) 
5. ↑ diariocambio.com.mx: Puebla FC tiene un regreso triunfal al Cuauhtémoc y derrota 1-0 a Boca article from November 18, 2015 (Spanish)