Estádio Castor Cifuentes, Municipal football stadium in Nova Lima, Brazil.
Estádio Castor Cifuentes is a football stadium in Nova Lima, about 20 km south-east of Belo Horizonte. Its grass pitch is enclosed by concrete stands, and since 2011 about 8,000 seats removed from Mineirão during its renovation have been installed. The current capacity is 5,160 spectators.
Villa Nova played on this site from its founding; the cramped ground was called Alçapão do Bonfim and was renamed Castor Cifuentes after the president's death in 1936. The club won four straight Minas Gerais state titles here from 1932 to 1935. In 1978 Mineração Morro Velho donated the land to Villa Nova, and floodlights were inaugurated on 17 April 1982 in a 2–1 win over Palmeiras before 10,000 spectators.
Fans call the ground Alçapão do Bonfim, the "Trap of Bonfim", after the neighbourhood east of Nova Lima's centre, and also Penidão, after mayor Vitor Penido, who reformed it in 1989. Villa Nova won the Minas Gerais state championship five times between 1932 and 1951 while playing here.
The stadium is located southeast of Belo Horizonte and can be reached by public transportation. Visitors should check the match schedule in advance to plan a trip around game days.
In 2011 the stadium received about 8,000 seats removed from Belo Horizonte's Mineirão during its renovation for the 2014 World Cup. The ground's record attendance of 15,000 dates from the 1989 reopening match, when Guarani EC of Divinópolis beat Villa Nova 1–0, with Formiga scoring.
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