Estadio Monumental is a football stadium in Santiago, Chile

Santiago, Chile

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. Completed in 1989, the stadium has a current spectator capacity of 45,000. Originally, the stadium could hold up to 65,000 spectators but that was dramatically reduced for security reasons. The highest ever recorded attendance was 69,305 spectators which occurred in 1992 in a match featuring Chilean rivals Colo-Colo and Universidad de Chile which ended in a 0-2 victory for the latter team. The stadium was also home to the 1991 Copa Libertadores final match won by Colo-Colo, so far the only chilean team to win the trophy. Its principal tenant and owner is the corporate entity Blanco y Negro that runs Colo-Colo and for which Chilean billionaire

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 and President

Chilean presidential election, 2009

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 Sebastián Piñera

Sebastián Piñera

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 is a major shareholder. The stadium is also rented out to club Santiago Morning and other Chilean teams that require holding games on the international tournament scale. It has also been used by the Chile national football team

Chile national football team

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 when the Estadio Nacional

Estadio Nacional de Chile

The Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos is the national stadium of Chile, and is located in the Ñuñoa district of Santiago). It is the largest stadium in Chile with an official capacity of 47,000, and is part of a 62 ha sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics center, a...

, the main football stadium of the country, is unavailable. The American rock band Pearl Jam

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 are scheduled to play at the stadium on November 16, 2011, as part of their 20th anniversary tour

Pearl Jam Twenty Tour

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External links

• Estadio Monumental David Arellano, Santiago Stadium pictures on Fussballtempel.net