Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid, Football stadium in Bragança Paulista, Brazil.
Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid, known as Nabizão, was a football ground in Bragança Paulista holding 15,010 people. A covered grandstand with a white roof and dark seats stepped down to the pitch behind a low yellow wall, with a metal floodlight pylon beside it and a smaller open stand marked "SCHAMPS". It was demolished after April 2025.
The stadium was built in 32 days in 1949 after a popular movement led by club president Nabi Abi Chedid, and Bragantino beat Mogiana of Campinas 2-1 in the inaugural match, with Sacadura scoring the first goal. It was first called Estádio Parque das Pedras, then Estádio das Pedras, and was renamed Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid on 6 January 2009, a change poorly received in Bragança Paulista. Its last match was a 1-0 win over Cruzeiro on 20 April 2025, Jhon Jhon scoring the final goal before demolition.
The name, adopted on 6 January 2009, honours Nabi Abi Chedid, father of club president Marquinho Chedid and a former Bragantino president; the change was rejected by much of the city, and the sports area took the old name Marcelo Stéfani. The ground was nicknamed Nabizão, and the club's fans are called Massa Bruta.
The stadium was demolished after Bragantino's 1-0 win over Cruzeiro on 20 April 2025, so there is no ground to visit; the club plays temporarily at Estádio Municipal Cícero de Souza Marques in Bragança Paulista while a new arena is built on the site.
The stadium was first called Estádio Parque das Pedras, then Estádio das Pedras, and only later Estádio Marcelo Stéfani, after a former player and club president. The 2009 renaming to Nabi Abi Chedid, father of president Marquinho Chedid, was rejected by much of Bragança Paulista's population; the club then gave the name Marcelo Stéfani to the surrounding sports area.
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