Estádio de Pituaçu, Football stadium in Salvador, Brazil
Estádio Roberto Santos, known as Estádio de Pituaçu, is a football ground in the Pituaçu neighbourhood of Salvador, owned by the state of Bahia. Its stands hold 32,157 spectators, and the pitch was named the best in Brazil's 2010 Série B by the CBF.
The stadium opened on March 11, 1979, hosting a match between Bahia and Fluminense in front of the inaugural crowd. The home team secured a 2-0 victory in that opening contest.
The stadium honors Roberto Santos, a politician and governor of Bahia who also served as Minister of Health. His name remains connected to local civic memory through this sporting venue.
The stadium sits in the Pituaçu neighbourhood, west of Salvador's centre, and is owned by the state of Bahia. Its 2008–2009 requalification, run by the state agency Conder at an estimated cost of 55 million reais, replaced the pitch, floodlights, dressing rooms, irrigation and drainage and added an electronic scoreboard. A Pituaçu Solar visitor centre opened on site in September 2013.
The venue served as an official training center during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, meeting international standards for player and administration facilities. This role highlighted the stadium's capacity to host elite-level sporting operations.
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