Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez, Football stadium in Metapán, El Salvador.
The Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez is a football ground in Metapán whose pitch was widened between 2014 and 2015 to meet Concacaf requirements, which meant removing the north-side stand and lowering the capacity to roughly 4,000. It has four lighting towers, radio booths, new dressing rooms and bathrooms, interior and exterior paint, and a perimeter wall.
The municipal ground opened in the early 1940s as Los Sauces, named for the willow trees around the dusty pitch, and hosted Isidro Menéndez before Isidro Metapán. In 1995 an alderman proposed renaming it after Jorge "Calero" Suárez Landaverde, a Metapán-born national-team goalkeeper of the 1970s. Works finished in 1996 with the east-side stands and a roof, and the renamed stadium was inaugurated with a tribute to Suárez while he was still alive.
The stadium serves as a gathering place for football supporters from the region and shapes community life in Metapán. On match days, fans of CD Isidro Metapán gather here to cheer their team and participate in the intensity of local football rivalries.
The ground sits in Metapán, and its last remodel between 2014 and 2015 widened the pitch, which meant removing the north-side stand and cutting the previous capacity. The venue has four lighting towers, radio booths, new dressing rooms, new bathrooms and a perimeter wall. Concacaf rejected the ground under its new standards in 2012, so Isidro Metapán played Champions League home games at the Estadio Cuscatlán in the capital.
The north stand was removed during the 2014-2015 works that widened the pitch for Concacaf, cutting the ground's capacity. In 2012 Concacaf still ruled the new pitch too small, so Isidro Metapán played its Champions League home games at the Estadio Cuscatlán in San Salvador.
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