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Estadio Azteca

Estadio Azteca
Aztec Stadium
El Coloso de Santa Úrsula
Logotipo Estadio Azteca.png
Stadium's exterior
Location Calzada de Tlalpan, 3465,Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico
Public transit Estadio Azteca
Xochimilco Light Rail
Owner Grupo Televisa
Operator Club América
Executive suites 856
Capacity 87,000
Record attendance Football: 119,853 (Mexico vs Brazil, 7 July 1968)
Boxing: 132,247 (Julio César Chávez vs Greg Haugen, 20 February 1993)
Field size 105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
Surface Grass
Construction
Broke ground 1961
Opened 29 May 1966
Renovated 1986, 1999, 2013 and 2016
Construction cost MXN$260 million
Architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
Tenants
Mexico national football team (1966–present)
América (1966–present)
Necaxa (1966–1970, 1982–2003)
Atlante (1966–1982, 1996–2001, 2004–2007)
Universidad Nacional (1967–1969)
Atlético Español (1970–1982)
Cruz Azul (1971–1996)

The Estadio Azteca (Spanish pronunciation: [esˈtaðjo asˈteka]) is a football stadium located in the suburb of Santa Úrsula in Mexico City, Mexico. Since its opening in 1966, the stadium has been the official home stadium of the professional Mexican football team Club América and the official national stadium of the Mexico national football team. With an official capacity of 87,000 it is the largest stadium in Mexico.

Regarded as one of the most famous and iconic football stadiums in the world, it is the first to have hosted two FIFA World Cup Finals. In the 1970 World Cup Final, Brazil defeated Italy 4–1, and in the 1986 World Cup Final, Argentina defeated West Germany 3–2. It also hosted the 1986 quarter-final match between Argentina and England in which Diego Maradona scored both the "Hand of God goal" and the "Goal of the Century". The stadium also hosted the "Game of the Century", when Italy defeated West Germany 4–3 in extra time in one of the 1970 semifinal matches.


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