Estadio Hugo Bogado Vaceque, Football stadium in Zeballos Cué, Asunción, Paraguay
Estadio Hugo Bogado Vaceque is a football stadium in Zeballos Cué with a natural grass playing surface and capacity for around 5000 spectators. The facility includes modern floodlighting systems with multiple towers for night matches.
The ground is named after José Hugo Bogado Vaceque, a club president under whose mandate General Caballero won promotion to the Primera División in 2005 and 2011. In mid-July 2016 work began on four floodlight towers with 18 projectors each; they were first switched on 4 August 2016 and officially enabled on 12 August, when Capiatá won 2-1 in the first night match. An international friendly against Argentina's Crucero del Norte followed on 18 August 2016, also lost 1-2.
The stadium is named after José Hugo Bogado Vaceque, a club president under whose mandate General Caballero won promotion to the Primera División twice, in 2005 and 2011. His name on the ground links those two promotions to the Zeballos Cué club.
The ground sits in the Zeballos Cué barrio of Asunción and hosts Club General Caballero, which plays in the fourth-tier Primera División C. Four lighting towers, each with 18 floodlights, were switched on for the first time on 4 August 2016, so evening matches are possible.
On 12 August 2016 the new floodlights were officially switched on and the ground staged its first night match, a 1-2 home defeat to Capiatá in the seventh round of the Torneo Clausura. Four towers carrying 18 floodlights each had been tested on 4 August, and on 18 August 2016 Crucero del Norte of Argentina won a friendly 2-1.
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