Estádio Proletário Guilherme da Silveira, Football stadium in Bangu, Brazil
The Estádio Proletário Guilherme da Silveira is a football stadium in Bangu, a western neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, with a grass pitch and capacity for about 9,500 spectators. It serves primarily as the home ground for Bangu Atlético Clube.
Bangu left its Rua Ferrer ground after the factory that founded the club sold the land, and the new stadium was built on the old Fazenda da Viúva, a spot called Moça Bonita. Works funded by Fábrica Bangu were designed by João Correia Lima, with Antônio Gomes da Fonseca Ferreira as engineer, and the ground was inaugurated on 17 November 1947. The first match came only on 12 December 1948, when Bangu beat Flamengo 4–2.
The nickname Moça Bonita comes from the old Fazenda da Viúva, the estate where the ground was built; the name passed from the land to the stadium. The club is Bangu Atlético Clube, founded from the Bangu textile factory, which paid for the works. Fans still call the ground Moça Bonita rather than by its official name.
The ground sits in Bangu, in Rio's west zone. Night matches were suspended from 2017 to 2022, and renovation work began in May 2023, so check whether the ground is open before travelling. The covered grandstand on the left of the pitch holds a small group of spectators.
The name Moça Bonita came from the old Fazenda da Viúva, the estate where the ground was built, and only later passed to the stadium. The original project, by João Correia Lima, foresaw room for 60,000 people, far more than was ever built.
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