The Estádio Fonte Nova, also known as Estádio Octávio Mangabeira, was a
football
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stadium inaugurated on January 28, 1951 in
Salvador
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Bahia
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,
with a maximum capacity of 66,080 people.
The stadium was owned by the Bahia government, and was the home stadium of
Esporte Clube Bahia
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and
Esporte Clube Vitória
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.
Its formal name honors Octávio Cavalcanti Mangabeira, a civil engineer, journalist, and former Bahia state governor from 1947 to 1954.
After part of the upper terraces collapsed in 2007, killing 7 people and injuring several others, the government of Bahia announced the demolition of Fonte Nova and the construction of a new stadium, the
Arena Fonte Nova
The Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, also known as Complexo Esportivo Cultural Professor Octávio Mangabeira, is a football-specific stadium located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and has a maximum capacity of 48,000 people. The stadium was built in plac ...
, in the same place.
The stadium was nicknamed Fonte Nova because it was located at Ladeira das Fontes das Pedras.
History
The stadium construction ended in 1951. On March 4, 1971, the stadium was reinaugurated, after a great reformation involving the addition of a second tier, which expanded the maximum stadium capacity from 35,000 to 110,000. In the reinauguration day, two matches were played: Bahia against
Flamengo
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, and
Vitória against
Grêmio. On that day happened a big tumult, where two people died.
The inaugural match was played on January 28, 1951, when Guarany and Botafogo, both local Bahia state teams, drew 2-1. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Guarany's Nélson.
The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 110,438, set on February 12, 1989 when Bahia beat
Fluminense
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2-1.
On November 25, 2007, when the
Brazilian Championship Third Division match between Bahia and
Vila Nova was nearly over with more than 60,000 supporters in attendance,
a section of the stadium's highest terraces collapsed when Bahia's supporters were celebrating the club's promotion to the
Brazilian Championship Second Division, killing seven people
[ ] and injuring forty others.
Jacques Wagner, who is the governor of Bahia state, ordered the stadium to be closed as the causes of the accident are under investigation by the authorities,
and he also said on November 26, 2007 that the stadium may be demolished if its structure is compromised.
On November 27, 2007, the governor of Bahia announced that Estádio Fonte Nova would be demolished, and that a new stadium would be built in its place.
On September 28, 2008, Bahia's governor
Jaques Wagner
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Wagner, whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. In his youth, ...
announced that instead of being demolished, the stadium would be reformed into a multiuse arena with a maximum capacity of 60,000 people seated.
Demolition of the Octavio Mangabeira Stadium began in June 2010 and is expected to be finished by August - the upper tier was demolished using explosives on August 29, 2010. After the implosion, a portion of the upper tier was left standing, which was dismantled manually until October. The
Bahia Arena
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was constructed as a venue for the
2016 Summer Olympics
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for football tournaments.
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Volume 2. p. 23. During its construction, Bahia played in Estádio de Pituaçu
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.
References
External links
Estádio Fonte Nova at World Stadiums
History and pictures of Estádio Fonte Nova
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Sports venues in Salvador, Bahia
Fonte Nova
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Fonte Nova
Fonte means ''fountain'', ''source'' and/or ''spring'' in several languages, and is thus present in many toponyms and titles. It may also refer to:
People
* Allison Fonte (born 1964), American actress and pianist
* Artur Fonte (born 1959), Portugu ...
Copa América stadiums
Sports venues completed in 1951
Sports venues demolished in 2010
Buildings and structures demolished by controlled implosion