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El Cilindro de Avellaneda, estadio de Racing Club, en diciembre de 2021.
El Cilindro de Avellaneda, estadio de Racing Club, en diciembre de 2021.. Photo: AlsinayColon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: AlsinayColon / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source

Current stadium · Racing ClubEstadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón

Popular name
El Cilindro
Location
Avellaneda
Opened
1950
The club plays here
Since 1950

It was built between 1948 and 1950 on the same site as the old Alsina y Colón ground, rotated 90 degrees relative to it, with loans from the government of Juan Domingo Perón, after whom it was named. It opened on 3 September 1950 with a 1-0 Racing win over Vélez Sarsfield, the goal scored by Llamil Simes, and in 1951 it hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the first Pan American Games. In 1967 it staged the second match of the Intercontinental final against Celtic, won 2-1, before a record crowd of some 120,000. Between 1995 and 1997 it was fitted with a translucent sky blue roof, which made it the first Argentine stadium with all of its seated stands covered.

Stadium photos

  • Las tribunas del Cilindro en 2012.
    Las tribunas del Cilindro en 2012.. Photo: The Stadium Guide / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

    Las tribunas del Cilindro en 2012.

    Photo: The Stadium Guide / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source

Racing Club stadiums

Sources

  1. Website. footballgroundguide.com View source
  2. Website. stadiumdb.com View source
  3. Website. racingclub.com.ar View source
  4. Website. Wikipedia (English) View source
  5. Website. elgrafico.com.ar View source
  6. Website. Wikipedia (Spanish) View source