Stade Antônio Inácio de Souza, Football stadium in Caruaru, Brazil
The Antônio Inácio de Souza Stadium is a sports venue in Caruaru with a natural grass pitch and covered seating areas for thousands of spectators. The facility was upgraded to handle larger regional championship matches and improve visitor comfort.
Built by Vera Cruz Futebol Clube, a now-defunct Caruaru club, the stadium belongs to the Liga Desportiva Caruaruense. After six years without official matches it was renovated and its pitch enlarged in 2015 for the state first division; following relegation in 2016, official FPF games returned only in 2017, when Porto de Caruaru settled here.
The nickname Vera Cruz comes from the club that built the ground, Vera Cruz Futebol Clube, now extinct; the stadium belongs to the Liga Desportiva Caruaruense. Its current tenant is Porto de Caruaru. In 2021 it hosted Sport against Náutico in the second round of the 2020 Pernambuco Women's Championship, a match resuming the competition after its suspension during the COVID-19 pandemic; Sport won 3-2.
The stadium stands in Caruaru, in the state of Pernambuco, and has a capacity of 6,000 seats. It is owned by the Liga Desportiva Caruaruense, and since 2017 it has served as the home ground of Clube Atlético do Porto. Look for the Vera Cruz name, still used for the ground built for the defunct Vera Cruz FC.
The ground is owned by the Liga Desportiva Caruaruense, not by the club that plays there, and it carries the name of Antônio Inácio de Souza while everyone in Caruaru calls it Vera Cruz, after the extinct Vera Cruz Futebol Clube that built it. In 2021 it hosted Sport against Náutico in the second round of the 2020 Pernambuco Women's Championship, a match that marked the competition's resumption after the COVID-19 suspension; Sport won 3-2.
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