Estadio Metropolitano de Techo, multi-use stadium in Techo, Bogotá, Colombia
The Estadio Metropolitano de Techo is a football stadium in the Techo sector of Bogotá, built on the site of the old Hipódromo de Techo. A grass pitch ringed by a pale running track is enclosed by a low black mesh fence, with tiered light-grey concrete stands divided by stairways and a continuous band of advertising boards above them. Its western tribune, designed by engineer Guillermo González Zuleta, is a declared national monument.
The stadium opened in 1954 as the Hipódromo de Techo, a horse racing track in the Techo sector, part of the urban complex later renamed Ciudad Kennedy. Its western grandstand, designed by engineer Guillermo González Zuleta, was declared a national monument. Racing moved to the Hipódromo de Los Andes in 1978, and the site was later converted to football. In 1994 it hosted the Copa de las Américas Sub-23, which Colombia won by beating Uruguay in the final.
The ground sits where the Hipódromo de Techo once stood, in the sector named after the Muisca chief Techotivá, colonised from 1608. Its western tribune, designed by engineer Guillermo González Zuleta, was declared a national monument. Today Internacional de Bogotá, Fortaleza, Tigres and Bogotá F.C. play their home matches here.
The stadium sits southwest of the centre, next to Mundo Aventura park and Plaza de Las Américas mall, reachable from the Américas–Avenida Boyacá TransMilenio station via Avenida Primero de Mayo, Avenida Boyacá and Avenida de las Américas. All 10,000 places are individual seats, so arrive before kickoff on match days. A future south-stand expansion depends on an IDRD–Bogotá Chamber of Commerce land agreement.
In 2015 the stadium hosted 93 official matches, an average of one every two days, as eight professional clubs used it as their home ground, including La Equidad, América de Cali and Deportes Tolima. The western stand was designed by engineer Guillermo González Zuleta and declared a national monument.
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