Estádio Alfredo Jaconi, Estádio de Futebol Brasileiro
Estádio Alfredo Jaconi is a football stadium in Caxias do Sul with a capacity exceeding 18,000 seats and modern stands arranged in different sections. The facility includes locker rooms, media areas, and administrative spaces designed to accommodate players, staff, and spectators comfortably.
Construction of the stadium was announced on 29 June 1972, the club's founding anniversary, and began that September on the site of the old Quinta dos Pinheiros ground. It opened on 23 March 1975 during the centenary of Italian colonization in Rio Grande do Sul, with a 0–0 friendly against Flamengo. Palmeiras player Ronaldo scored the first goal there on 2 April 1975.
The name honors Alfredo Jaconi, who served Juventude as player, coach, technical adviser, occasional masseur, field director and president; the Quinta dos Pinheiros was renamed for him in 1954, and the new stadium kept the name in 1975. The first Ca-Ju derby here was played on 28 March 1976, and Juventude's first win over Grêmio at the ground came on 1 July 1977.
The pitch measures 100 by 70 metres, and the ground holds four dressing rooms for players plus one for referees, a gym, physiotherapy and medical rooms, a canteen and dormitories. The press area has two rooms for press conferences. Capacity figures differ: the club states 23,726, while the CBF lists 19,924.
The stadium's record attendance of 27,740 was set on 27 November 2002, when Grêmio beat Juventude 1-0 in the Brazilian Championship quarter-finals. The ground's first goal came from Palmeiras player Ronaldo in April 1975. On 16 February 2000 it hosted its first Copa Libertadores match, a 1-0 Juventude win over El Nacional of Ecuador.
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