Arena da Baixada, Football stadium in Água Verde, Curitiba, Brazil
Arena da Baixada is a football stadium in the Água Verde neighborhood of Curitiba, offering seating for more than 42,000 spectators. The facility features a closing roof and modern amenities that meet international standards for large events.
The site has served football since the 1910s and received a full renewal in the late 1990s and again for the World Cup. These upgrades transformed the earlier simple pitch into a contemporary sports venue with expanded capacity.
The name Baixada refers to the low-lying land where the stadium was built. The club's supporters are called rubro-negros, and their red-and-black flags and banners hang along the stand fronts, as seen in the stadium photographs. The ground is in the Água Verde borough, near the centre of Curitiba.
The retractable roof, the first in South America, opens or closes in about 25 minutes, so check the weather before choosing a seat. The Brasílio Itiberê stand, finished in 2009, added 4,700 seats and completed the first ring. The pitch is synthetic, FIFA Pro certified with GEOFILL vegetable-fibre infill, installed in 2016.
This stadium was the first in the country to exchange its name for a commercial partnership, opening a new path for sports financing. That decision in 2005 created a model that other Brazilian clubs later adopted.
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