Arena Cidade da Copa, Football stadium in São Lourenço da Mata, Brazil

Arena Cidade da Copa, officially Estádio Governador Carlos Wilson Campos, is a stadium in São Lourenço da Mata with a rectangular footprint and rounded corners. Its lower exterior is pale grey concrete with angular projecting stair towers, above which a band of square panels alternates white and light grey-blue. A flat white ring-shaped canopy edged with upward-pointing finials covers the tiered red seating around a rectangular green field.

Built by Odebrecht for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the stadium opened in 2013 at a cost of R$532 million. Náutico began playing home games there in July 2013, and Grupo Petrópolis held the naming rights from 2013 to 2016. In June 2016 Pernambuco ended the Odebrecht contract and took over management, paying R$246.8 million over 15 years.

Clube Náutico Capibaribe signed an agreement in 2012 to become part owner and began playing all home games here in July 2013. From 2013 to 2016 the ground carried the name Itaipava Arena Pernambuco under a sponsorship deal with brewing company Grupo Petrópolis, which held exclusive rights to sell its drinks in the bars.

The venue is easy to reach by car or public transit thanks to an integrated bus terminal on-site. Parking is plentiful with both covered and open options, so you can choose based on the weather.

A solar plant built with Neoenergia, backed by about $13 million, gives the arena 1 MW of installed capacity; when the stadium is empty, that output covers the average consumption of 6,000 people. The venue also appears in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil video game and in a Simpsons episode where Homer referees a match there.