Estádio Mário Pessoa, Football stadium in Ilhéus, Brazil

Estádio Mário Pessoa is a football stadium in Ilhéus built on reclaimed marshland with modern floodlights and covered spectator stands. The facility features numbered seating in protected sections, spacious locker rooms, and press facilities for media coverage.

The stadium opened on 28 June 1940 as Estádio Municipal de Ilhéus, in the final year of mayor Mário Pessoa's administration, with EC Bahia beating EC Ypiranga 4-2. It was then considered the largest stadium in northern and northeastern Brazil. It only took the name Mário Pessoa in 1952, honouring the mayor who built it.

This facility serves as the home ground for Colo Colo de Futebol e Regatas, bringing together supporters from across Ilhéus for local football matches. The venue remains central to how residents engage with their community through sport.

Estádio Mário Pessoa holds 7,000 spectators, with numbered seats in the covered stand and standing room in the Geral section. The pitch is served by new floodlights, so evening matches are well lit. The ground lies in the Cidade Nova neighbourhood of Ilhéus.

The stadium stands on land split off from Fazenda Boa Vista, belonging to the heirs of José Gomes do Amaral Pacheco, and the marsh there had to be filled before construction began. The first match, on 28 June 1940, was between two clubs from the capital: EC Bahia beat EC Ypiranga 4-2.