Estadio Jalisco

Estadio Jalisco
View of the Estadio Jalisco (October 2006)
Data
place	Calle 7 Colinas 1772 Colonia Independencia, 44290 Guadalajara , Jalisco , Mexico
Coordinates	20 ° 42 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 103 ° 19 ′ 41.5 ″  W Coordinates: 20 ° 42 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 103 ° 19 ′ 41.5 ″  W.
owner	Clubes Unidos de Jalisco AC
start of building	1958
opening	January 31, 1960
First game	31 January 1960 Atlas Guadalajara - San Lorenzo 0: 2
Renovations	1970, 1986, 1999, 2017
surface	Natural grass
architect	Constructora Jalisco SA de CV Constructora ARVA SA de CV
capacity	56,713 seats
playing area	105 × 68 m
Societies)
Atlas Guadalajara (since 1960) Leones Negros de la UdeG (since 1970) Deportivo Guadalajara (1960-2010) Club Deportivo Oro (1960-1970) Nacional de Guadalajara (1961-1965) Club Jalisco (1970-1980) Deportivo CAFESSA Jalisco (since 2019)
Events
Second leg final in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1962 Football World Cup 1970 Junior World Cup 1983 Soccer World Cup 1986 Confederations Cup 1999 Final first leg in the 2007 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Exterior view of the stadium with the arms of the "Clubes Unidos de Jalisco, AC", flanked by the arms of the four clubs UdeG, Atlas, Chivas and Oro (from left to right)

The Estadio Jalisco is a football stadium in Guadalajara , the second largest city in Mexico , in the state of Jalisco . It was built between 1958 and 1960. The facility was modernized several times on the occasion of the three major domestic football tournaments, the 1970 and 1986 football World Cups and the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup . Since the last redesign, the Estadio Jalisco is a pure seating stadium with 56,713 seats including 5,011 VIP and 3,873 business seats as well as 168 press seats. It is the third largest stadium in the country after the Aztec Stadium (87,000) and the Estadio Olímpico Universitario (72,449) and the largest stadium in Mexico outside the capital, Mexico City . So far there have been 15 World Cup games at the Estadio Jalisco , ten of them with the Brazilian national soccer team . There were more World Cup games (19) only in the Aztec Stadium.

history

Until the establishment of the Estadio Jalisco, the Parque Felipe Martínez Sandoval (also called Parque Oblatos and Parque Oro because it was in the Oblatos district and owned by the Oro de Jalisco ) was the largest stadium in the city of Guadalajara. It served not only as the home ground for the team from Club Oro, which owned the stadium, but also for the city's two major clubs, Atlas Guadalajara and Deportivo Guadalajara . However, due to the rapid growth of the capital of the Mexican state Jalisco and the increasing popularity of soccer, this stadium should soon prove to be too small.

However, neither Atlas nor Chivas had the financial means to expand the stadium or even to be able to afford their own stadium with a correspondingly high audience capacity. This shouldn't prevent Alberto Alvo, then President of Atlas, from chasing after his dream of having his own stadium. He announced his intention at a meeting at the Hotel Morales on October 8, 1954. But because he was unable to find an investor for his ambitious project, the plan had to be postponed indefinitely.

Despite various setbacks, he never lost sight of his project. Finally he managed to convince the boards of the neighboring clubs Chivas and Oro of the need for a larger and more comfortable stadium. In this way, the non-profit association called "Clubes Unidos de Jalisco AC" (United Clubs of Jalisco), founded specifically to finance and maintain the stadium, was created in 1956 and was shared equally by the three football clubs.

The non-profit association acquired a correspondingly large area in the Independencia district on the northern outskirts of Guadalajara from the city. Construction work began on July 26, 1958 and lasted exactly one and a half years. The official completion took place on January 24, 1960 with the consecration by the then Cardinal of Guadalajara, José Garibi Rivera. The official inauguration took place exactly one week later, on January 31, 1960, when the match between Atlas and CA San Lorenzo de Almagro from Argentina (0: 2) took place. It was the opening match of the first tournament to be played in the new stadium: the Torneo Pentagonal de Occidente , the five-a-side tournament in the West , in which the three clubs Atlas, Chivas and Oro, indirectly involved in the construction of the stadium, as well as the teams from San Lorenzo de as guests Almagro and São Paulo FC from Brazil participated.

Compared to the older Parque Oro, the Estadio Jalisco offered modernity, comfort and progress. The stadium was modernized several times on the occasion of the soccer World Cups in Mexico in 1970 and 1986 and the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999. For the 1970 World Cup, the upper tier was built and thus a significantly higher audience capacity was achieved. A fundamental redesign and modernization of the technical equipment were carried out for the 1986 World Cup. On the occasion of the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999, VIP and press boxes were set up and the changing rooms were completely modernized.

The "Clubes Unidos de Jalisco AC" joined a fourth member in the 1970s with the university team of Guadalajara . The chairmanship of the non-profit association for the construction and maintenance of the stadium changes annually between the member clubs.

Chivas Guadalajara left the stadium in late July 2010. Their last game took place on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, as part of the semi-final first leg of the Copa Libertadores against CF Universidad de Chile (1-1). Chivas now resides in the newly built Estadio Omnilife in the neighboring city of Zapopan .

Football World Cup 1970

Of the total of 32 games in the 1970 World Cup , eight were played at the Estadio Jalisco. This corresponds to a share of exactly 25%. Only in the Aztec Stadium were there more games (10 in total) at this World Cup.

The Estadio Jalisco was the venue for all six games of the preliminary round group 3 with Brazil, England , Romania and Czechoslovakia . The group winners and future world champions Brazil also played their quarter-finals and semi-finals here and had to leave Guadalajara for the final scheduled for the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City. The Brazilian national team's stay in Guadalajara for more than two weeks resulted in a warm bond between tapatios (as the people of Guadalajara are called) and Brazilians.

Soccer World Cup 1986

The cordial contacts between the people of Guadalajara and the Brazilians who had traveled here were pleasantly refreshed at the 1986 World Cup . Because Brazil was again allowed to play all three group games of the preliminary round at the Estadio Jalisco and was retained as group winners (Group D) of the city for the qualifying games. The 4-0 victory of Seleção in the round of 16 against Poland meant not only the highest victory of a Brazilian national team to date in Guadalajara, but also their ninth victory in the ninth World Cup game at this point. In addition, the team had still not conceded a goal at the 1986 World Cup.

Nevertheless, she was not considered a favorite by all experts in the quarter-final match against the French national team, led by Michel Platini . Rightly, as you soon saw. Because France turned out to be an equal opponent, so that a varied and extremely exciting game developed right up to the end. By the way, for many viewers this game was considered the best encounter of the whole 1986 World Cup. Although Careca managed the 1-0 lead of the majority named favorite after 18 minutes, Platini was able to equalize before the break (42nd minute). In the 75th minute, the record world champion had the renewed leadership of the Seleção on the slip. But France's goalkeeper Joël Bats was able to parry the penalty shot by the newly substituted Zico . Because there were no more goals on either side, despite numerous chances, the decision had to be postponed to the subsequent penalty shoot- out. It started with Socrates for Brazil - and Bats distinguished itself again. It was 3: 3 after goals (with one penalty for Brazil and two more attempts for France) when France's captain Platini put the ball on the spot, took a run-up and hammered the ball hard and placed towards the corner of the goal. Carlos in the Brazilian goal would have been without a chance. But the ball sailed just past the goal. Everything was open again. But then Júlio César also missed , while Luis Fernández converted. Brazil lost a World Cup game in Guadalajara for the first time. The subsequent semi-final between Germany and France was the last World Cup match (so far) that Estadio Jalisco was allowed to experience. In that game, the French fell short of their expectations and the Germans won with an early goal by Andreas Brehme (9th minute) and a late goal by Rudi Völler (90th minute) all in all relatively sovereign 2-0. It was the first and only World Cup game of a German national soccer team in Guadalajara.

FIFA Confederations Cup 1999

On the occasion of the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup , hosted by Mexico, the German national football team was to return to Guadalajara 13 years later. But this time she left a downright desolate impression, even defeated against Mexico's intimate enemy USA (0: 2), which meant a disappointing third place in the preliminary group and sealed the early end. The German team had surprisingly lost the opening game 4-0 against Brazil; So, of all people, the national team that seems to have a subscription to the Estadio Jalisco at tournaments in Mexico. If you add up the two World Championships in 1970 and 1986 and the Confederations Cup in 1999, the Brazilian selection (Seleção) played a total of 16 games in Mexico, 14 of which were played at the Estadio Jalisco. The record world champion only had to contest the two finals in 1970 and 1999 in the Aztec Stadium.

All six games of preliminary group B took place at the Estadio Jalisco, as well as the semi-finals of the group winners against the second in group A (in which Brazil beat Saudi Arabia 8-2 ) and the game for third place (which the USA with Won 2-0 against Saudi Arabia). The Estadio Jalisco was next to the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City the only football temple in which the 16 games of this tournament took place in equal parts. As with all international tournaments in Mexico, the host played almost exclusively in the Aztec Stadium and not even in Guadalajara. In contrast to the two world championships, when the hosts fell by the wayside in the quarter-finals (1970 against Italy in Toluca and 1986 against Germany in Monterrey ), Mexico was able to secure the title in this tournament with an intoxicating 4-3 final victory over Brazil .

Role model function

The Estadio Jalisco, built in the late 1950s, served as a model for the Aztec stadium, which was only completed in 1966. This can also be easily seen from a photo comparison of the two stages, which at first glance look quite similar, at least externally. Of course, the Aztec stadium has almost twice as much capacity and is divided into a total of nine different-sized sections (tiers) in the grandstand area.

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Interior panorama (November 2008)

See also

• List of the largest football stadiums in the world

Web links

Commons : Estadio Jalisco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• atlasfc.com.mx: Stadium on the Atlas Guadalajara website (Spanish)
• stadiumdb.com: Estadio Jalisco (English)
• europlan-online.de: Estadio Jalisco - Guadalajara
• stadionwelt.de: Jalisco

Individual evidence

1. ^ Estadio Jalisco. In: stadiumdb.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Sergio Luis Rosas: Recuerdos del Ayer. In: elsiglodetorreon.com.mx. El Siglo de Torreón, April 11, 2012, accessed April 1, 2020 (Spanish).