Estadio Deportivo Cali, Football stadium in Palmira, Colombia.
Estadio Deportivo Cali is a football stadium in Palmira with a curved cantilevered roof and stacked tiers of grey concrete seating. A red-brick wall at the base of the stands carries advertising boards, and the pitch is natural grass. Its capacity is 42,000 after 12,000 seats were installed in 2018.
The first stone was laid on 24 August 2001, blessed by Palmira's bishop Orlando Corrales, and construction works started on 4 July 2002. On 20 February 2007 anthropologists from the National University of Colombia found an indigenous cemetery on the grounds, and the project was shifted 250 metres. The stadium opened in 2010.
The ground is known as Palmaseca, after the rural Palmira district where it stands, and it sits at kilometre 8 of the straight road between Palmira and Cali. On 12 September 2021, for the second leg of the Liga Femenina final against Santa Fe, it was temporarily renamed Myriam Guerrero, after the first captain and only female manager of Colombia's women's national team.
Current access is limited to 25,000 people due to evacuation protocols and entry road constraints established for safety purposes. Visitors should keep this reduced capacity in mind when planning to attend.
In 2021, the venue was temporarily renamed Estadio Deportivo Cali - Myriam Guerrero to recognize contributions to women's football. This honor acknowledged a key figure in the sport's development.
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