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| Estadio Arquitecto Ricardo Etcheverri | |
Estadio Ferro Carril Oeste | |
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 The stadium pictured in 2010 | |
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| Full name | Estadio Arquitecto Ricardo Etcheverri |
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| Former names | Estadio Ferro Carril Oeste |
| Address | Avellaneda 1240 |
| Location | Caballito, Buenos Aires Argentina |
| Public transit | Sarmiento Line at Caballito railway station  at Puan (0.9 km away) |
| Genre(s) | Sporting events Concerts |
| Capacity | 24,442 |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 2 January 1905 |
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| ferrocarriloeste.org.ar/estadio | |
Estadio Arquitecto Ricardo Etcheverri, formerly known as Estadio Ferro Carril Oeste, is a football stadium located in the Caballito district of Buenos Aires. It is owned and operated by club Ferro Carril Oeste. The stadium, opened in 1905 and located close to Caballito station of Sarmiento Line,[4] has a current capacity of 24,442.[5]
Inaugurated on 2 January 1905,[6] Ferro Carril Oeste is the oldest football stadium of Argentina (referring to clubs affiliated to AFA)[7][8] and the second in South America after Estadio Gran Parque Central (home venue of Uruguayan Club Nacional de Football, built in 1900).
Because of being located near the geographic centre of Buenos Aires, several former clubs used it as their home venues. Some of them were Alumni, Barracas A.C., San Lorenzo, Argentinos Juniors, among others.
The stadium also hosted test matches played by the Argentina national rugby union team (Los Pumas) first in 1932[1] and then during the 1970s to early 2000s, where Argentina played Ireland, New Zealand, France and Australia, among others. In Ferro Carril Oeste, Argentina achieved notable wins over Australia (1979) and France (1985), and a celebrated 21–21 tie vs the All Blacks in 1985.[9][10] Other local teams such as the URBA team or San Isidro Club played matches at Ferro Carril Oeste in the 1980s.[2]
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- ^ a b Historia on UAR
- ^ a b Memoria y Balance 1972 at UAR
- ^ Memoria y Balance 1994 at UAR
- ^ "El Estadio". Infraestructura (in Spanish). Club Ferro Carril Oeste. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ^ "ESTADIO ARQUITECTO RICARDO ETCHEVERRI". Soccerway: Club Ferro Carril Oeste. Perform. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ Estadio on Ferro C. Oeste website
- ^ Chau tablón, Clarín, 23 July 2005
- ^ Estadios argentinos by Carlos Aira on Xenen, 19 June 2016
- ^ "El historial de los Pumas contra los grandes: los All Blacks, el único al que no le pudieron ganar" Archived 6 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Cancha Llena, 8 August 2015
- ^ "El historial de Los Pumas ante Australia, la tercera potencia", Infobae, 18 October 2015