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2014 World Cup Stadiums
1. New Corinthians Stadium (City Sao Paulo)
The New Corinthians Stadium is a proposed football stadium which would be built in Itaquera area of São Paulo, Brazil, and will replace the City owned Pacaembu Stadium as the home stadium of Corinthians. The project was first announced on August 27, 2010, by president of CBF Ricardo Teixeira, the governor of São Paulo, Alberto Goldman and the mayor of São Paulo Gilberto Kassab, with a planned opening date of 2013. The stadium is intended to have a capacity of 65,281 spectators, and swill be holding the opening ceremony for 2014 FIFA World Cup.
2. Maracana Stadium (City Rio de Janeiro)
The Estádio do Maracanã, officially Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, is an open-air stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Owned by the Rio de Janeiro State Government, it is named after the Maracanã neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. It was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup. It has mainly been used for football matches between the major football clubs in Rio de Janeiro, including Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama. It has also hosted a number of concerts and other sporting events. The Maracanã is currently closed for renovations and upgrades, and will reach a total capacity of around 85,000 spectators in preparations for the 2014 World Cup, the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The stadium will reopen for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.
3. Mineirão Stadium (City Belo Horizonte)
Mineirão, official name is Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (Governor Magalhães Pinto Stadium) established in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, is the largest football stadium in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the second largest in the country, after Maracanã. It will be a host stadium in the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be held in the country. The Mineirão is currently closed for renovations and upgrades, and will reach a total capacity of around 70,000 spectators in preparations for the 2014 World Cup. It is also a football venue of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
4. Nacional de Brasilia (City Brasilia)
Nacional de Brasília (formerly known as Estádio Mané Garrincha) is a multi-purpose stadium in Brasilia, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 45,200. The stadium was built in 1974. Estádio Mané Garrincha is owned by the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation of Distrito Federal. There are plans on reconstructing the stadium to increase its capacity to 71,000 as well as to reach the requirements for the 2014 World Cup, which will be held in Brazil. The reconstruction involves dismantling the lower tier and retaining the upper tier into the new rectangular bowl, and reducing the size of the playing field so that the stadium can be a football-specific stadium.
5. Arena Pantanal (City Cuiaba)
Arena Pantanal is a new multi-use stadium in Cuiabá, Brazil, that is currently in the planning stages. Once completed in 2012, it will be used mostly for football matches and will be used to host matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The stadium will have a capacity of 42,500 people. It will replace the Verdão. Stadium is planned for reopening in December 2012.
6. Beira-Rio (City Porto Alegre)
Estádio Beira-Rio, officially Estádio José Pinheiro Borda, is a football stadium located on the Rio Guaíba shoreline in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It serves as the home stadium of Sport Club International. It is named after José Pinheiro Borda – an ageing Portuguese engineer who supervised the building of the stadium for many years, thus becoming the biggest accomplisher of his own dream. Unfortunately, he died before seeing its completion. The stadium is nicknamed Beira-Rio (literally:river bank) because it is located along the margins of Rio Guaíba. The stadium is about to undergo restoration and developments that would make it fit to host matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
7. Castelao (City Fortaleza)
The Estádio Plácido Aderaldo Castelo, also known as the Castelão or Gigante da Boa Vista, is a football stadium that was inaugurated on November 11, 1973 in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, with a maximum capacity of 60,326 people. The stadium is owned by the Ceará state Government, and is the home ground of Ceará Sporting Club and Fortaleza Sported Club. Its formal name honours Plácido Aderaldo Castelo, who served as the Governor of Ceará from September 12, 1966 to March 15, 1971, and was the stadium construction idealizer.
8. Arena Amazonia (City Manaus)
Arena Amazonia is the name of a football stadium in Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil to be located on the current site of the Vivaldão stadium. The stadium will have all-setter capacity of 46,000 and will be constructed from 2010 to 2012. It will host matches of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
9. Bahia Arena (City Salvador)
The Bahia Arena is a project for a new football-only stadium for the 2014 World Cup. The stadium is located Salvador, Bahia with a maximum capacity of 50,000 people. The stadium will be built in place of the older Stadium 'Fonte Nova'. An architects group of Brunswick, Germany, which also redesigned the old Hanover stadium into a modern arena for the 2006 World Cup has been selected after bidding. It will also be one of the venues used for the football preliminaries of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
10. Arena Cidade da Copa (City Recife)
Arena Cidade da Copa is a new multi-use stadium in Recife, Brazil, that is currently in the planning stages. Once completed, it will be used mostly for football matches and will be used to host matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The stadium will have a capacity of 46,160 people.
11. Arena da Baixada (City Curitiba)
The Arena da Baixada , formerly known as Estádio Joaquim Américo Guimarães, and named Kyocera Arena for a short period of time , is a football stadium and an indoor arena inaugurated on June 6, 1914 in Água Verde neighborhood, Curitiba, Paraná, with a maximum capacity of 25,180 people. The stadium is owned by Club Atlético Paranaense. Its formal name honors Joaquim Américo Guimarães, a former chairman of International-PR, which was a football club that merged with América-PR, thus forming Atlético Paranaense. Joaquim Américo Guimarães started the stadium's construction in 1912. Despite being called an arena, it is technically an outdoor stadium. On May 31 2009, the stadium was designated by FIFA as one of the match sites in the Brazil 2014 World Cup Brazil 2014 venues unveiled. The Stadium is thus undergoing expansion in order to host over 40,000 people during the event.
12. Arena das Dunas (City Natal)
The Arena das Dunas or Dunas Arena is a football stadium designed by Populous and that its construction start in January 2011 to host football matches for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which will be held in Brazil, is being built in the city of Natal in the capital of Rio Grande do Norte Brazilian state. The stadium is due to be built in place of the Machadão stadium the Machadinho gym, whose buildings will be demolished in 2011. This project replaces the old project called "Estádio Estrela dos Reis Magos" that would be located in the neighboring municipality of Parnamirim. In the new project, the stadium will have capacity for 45 thousand people.
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