Estadio Municipal Sin Iluminacion, Football stadium in La Cisterna, Santiago, Chile
Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna is a football ground on Avenida El Parrón 0999, at the paradero 21 of Gran Avenida, in the La Cisterna district of Santiago. Built in the early 1980s, it has a grass pitch, uncovered stands and a capacity of 12,000, though Estadio Seguro authorises only 6,000 spectators. Palestino plays home matches here under a loan agreement with the municipality.
The stadium was built in the early 1980s under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, using labour from the Programa de Empleo Mínimo and the Programa de Ocupación para Jefes de Hogar, set up to counter unemployment during Chile's 1982 economic crisis. It was inaugurated on 22 September 1988 by mayor Iván Moreira with a friendly between Palestino and Puebla of Mexico, won 3:1 by the visitors before 12,000 spectators. The record official crowd, 11,680, came on 16 October 1988 for a 0-0 league match against Universidad de Chile.
The ground serves as home to CD Palestino, where neighbors gather to watch their team play throughout the season. Match days bring local supporters together in a shared ritual of following their club's performance.
The stadium sits at Avenida El Parrón 0999, at the junction with Avenida José Joaquín Prieto near the paradero 21 of Gran Avenida, with a side entrance on Avenida Fernández Albano and a gallery-only access on El Parrón opened in July 2018. Metro El Parrón (Line 2) is about 1,300 m from the entrance, Lo Espejo train station about 1,500 m, and feeder bus G12 plus trunk routes 302 and 329 stop nearby. Under the Estadio Seguro programme the permitted crowd is capped at 6,000.
The stadium's nickname, "Sin Iluminación", reflects a real constraint: it has no floodlights, so Palestino cannot host night matches there. In July 2018 a new electronic scoreboard was installed in the Galería Sur and accesses were reworked to separate the two supporters' sections before a match against Universidad Católica.
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