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Estadio Daniel Alcides Carrión
Estadio Daniel Alcides Carrión is a multi-use stadium located in Cerro de Pasco, Peru. It is the home ground of football teams Ecosem Pasco of the Peruvian Tercera División and Unión Minas of the Copa Perú. The stadium holds 12,000 people and according to FIFA, it is the highest stadium in the world, with an altitude of 4,380 meters (13,973 ft) above sea level. This makes it very difficult for players who are not used to playing at this height and has caused some controversy. History The Estadio Daniel Alcides Carrión was constructed in the 1960s with an initial capacity of 8,000. The stadium has since been used by home team Unión Minas. The club has played in the Peruvian Primera División since 1986 up until 2001, where they were relegated to the Copa Perú where they currently still participate. In its time in top flight, the stadium has caused some controversy by visiting teams, who were not acclimated to the high altitude and cold climate of the city. Between 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro De Pasco
Cerro de Pasco is a city in central Peru, located at the top of the Andean Mountains. It is the capital of both the Pasco Province and the Department of Pasco, and an important mining center of silver, copper, zinc and lead. At an elevation of , it is one of the highest cities in the world, and with a population of 58,899, it is the highest or the second highest city with over 50,000 inhabitants. The elevation reaches up to in the Yanacancha area. The city has a very intense cold climate and it is connected by road and by rail (via Ferrocarril Central Andino) to the capital Lima, away. Its urban area is formed by the districts of Chaupimarca, Yanacancha and Simón Bolívar. Mining center Originally known as Villa de Pasco, the settlement's origins were as a mining town dating from 1578. Cerro de Pasco became one of the world's richest silver producing areas after silver was discovered there in 1630. It is still an active mining center. The Spanish mined the rich Cerro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice Media
Vice Media Group LLC is a Canadian-American digital media and broadcasting company. Vice Media encompasses four main business areas: Vice Studios Group (film and TV production); Vice TV (a joint venture with A&E Networks, also known as Viceland); Virtue (an agency offering creative services); and Vice (magazine)#Website, Vice Digital (digital content). It was cited as the largest independent youth media company in the world, with 35 offices. The original ''Vice (magazine), Vice'' magazine was founded and based in Montreal and co-founded by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith (journalist), Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes. Developed from the magazine, Vice Media expanded primarily into youth and young adult-focused digital media. This included online content Vertical marketing, verticals and related web series, a news division, a film production studio, and a record label, among other properties. Vice re-located to New York City in 2001. Vice News was known for broadcasting news programs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Stadiums
The following are lists of stadiums throughout the world. Note that horse racing and motorsport venues are not included at some pages, because those are not stadiums but sports venues. Combined lists * List of stadiums by capacity * List of closed stadiums by capacity * List of covered stadiums by capacity * List of future stadiums by capacity * List of indoor stadiums by capacity * List of indoor stadiums by country * List of national stadiums * List of Olympic stadiums By continent or region *Africa - List of African indoor stadiums *Africa - List of African stadiums *Africa - List of African stadiums by capacity *Asia - List of Asian stadiums *Asia - List of Asian stadiums by capacity *Asia - List of East Asian stadiums by capacity *Asia - List of Southeast Asian stadiums by capacity *Europe - List of European ice hockey indoor stadiums by capacity *Europe - List of European indoor stadiums by capacity *Europe - List of European stadiums *Europe - List of Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Football Stadiums In Peru
The following is a list of Association football, football stadiums in Peru, ordered by capacity. The stadiums with a capacity of at least 5,000 are ranked in order of Seating capacity, capacity. The 14,000-capacity Plaza de toros de Acho is the largest non-football stadium in Peru by capacity. Existing stadiums See also *Football in Peru *List of South American stadiums by capacity *List of association football stadiums by capacity *List of association football stadiums by country *List of sports venues by capacity *List of stadiums by capacity *Lists of stadiums {{South America topic, List of football stadiums in Football venues in Peru, Lists of association football stadiums, Peru Peru sport-related lists, Football stadiums Lists of buildings and structures in Peru, Football stadiums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Torneo Descentralizado
The 2000 season of the Torneo Descentralizado was the 85th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario. Competition modus The national championship was divided into two tournaments, the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura. Each was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each would play for the national title in a play-off, but since the same club had won both tournaments, it automatically won the national championship. Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the champion, as well as to each of the half-year tournament's runners-up, who held a play-off as a formality to decide the overall season runners-up. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place team held a promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division). Teams Before the start of the season, Deportivo Pesquero relocated from Chimbote t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universitario
Club Universitario de Deportes is a Peruvian sports club based in Lima, which has soccer as its main activity. It also has women's football, volleyball and basketball sections. The football team, popularly known as Universitario, has competed in the top tier of Peruvian football, the Peruvian Primera División (Liga 1), since 1928. They are the most successful team in Peruvian football with 28 titles and have never been relegated. The club was founded in August 1924 under the name Federación Universitaria by students of the National University of San Marcos but was forced to rename it in 1931. The club won its first Peruvian title in 1929, one year after its debut in the first division. The club won its first double in the 1945 and 1946 seasons and won its only treble after conquering the 2000 season. Since then, Universitario has won twenty-seven first-division titles and was the first Peruvian club, and the Pacific, to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores in 1972. Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peruvian Primera División
The Peru First Division (; known simply as ''First Division'', and Liga 1 Te Apuesto for sponsorship reasons), officially known as Liga 1, is the top flight of association football in Peru. It has been referred to as Torneo Descentralizado since 1966 until 2019, when the first teams residing outside the Lima Province, Lima and Callao provinces were invited to compete in the 1912 Liga Peruana de Football, inaugural league national competition. The main sponsor is the sports betting company Te Apuesto. As of the 2025 Liga 1 (Peru), 2025 season, there are 19 teams in the division of a league that operates on a system of promotion and relegation determined at the end of the season with the Peruvian Segunda División, Segunda División (Liga 2). Seasons run from February to December, with each team playing 38 matches, 18 in the Apertura and 18 in the Clausura. The league is organized by Professional Football Sports Association, Asociación Deportiva de Fútbol Profesional () (ADFP). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Altitude Football Controversy
The high-altitude football controversy was a dispute that arose in May 2007 when the FIFA imposed a temporary ban on international football matches held at altitudes exceeding above sea level. The ban was justified by concerns over player health and the competitive imbalance for teams unaccustomed to high-altitude conditions. The ruling particularly affected Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, restricting their ability to host World Cup qualification matches in high-altitude cities like La Paz and Quito. After significant protest and negotiations, the ban was revoked in May 2008. Background The controversy originated from complaints lodged by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), which argued that playing at high altitudes posed significant health risks to players not acclimatized to such conditions. The issue gained prominence following an incident involving the Brazilian club Flamengo, whose players required bottled oxygen during a Copa Libertadores match against Real Poto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain (represented by Real Madrid CF), Swedish Football Association, Sweden, and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), Asian Football Confederat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west, to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country, to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River. Peru has Demographics of Peru, a population of over 32 million, and its capital and largest city is Lima. At , Peru is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 19th largest country in the world, and the List of South American countries by area, third largest in South America. Pre-Columbian Peru, Peruvian territory was home to Andean civilizations, several cultures during the ancient and medieval periods, and has one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Perú
The Copa Perú is a association football, football tournament in Peru and the fourth-highest division of the Peruvian football league system. Despite its name, it is not entirely an elimination-cup competition involving all Peruvian clubs, but rather a series of league tournaments leading to an elimination tournament, with regional league clubs as participants. It guarantees its 4 teams promotion to the Peruvian Tercera División. Background In 1965, with football activity practically paralyzed among the Lima teams because the Peru national football team was playing in the 1966 FIFA World Cup qualification, four provincial teams agreed under the auspices of Orlando Balarezo, president of Atlético Grau, to organize the 1965 Cuadrangular de Campeones Provincianos, Cuadrangular de Campeones Provincianos, a football tournament in Lima between the provincial champions. History In 1966, the First Division was named ''Primera División Peruana, Descentralizado''; teams from outside th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peruvian Tercera División
The Peruvian Third Division, officially known as Liga 3, is the third-highest division in the Peruvian football league system. It is a semi-professional and promotional division organized by the Peruvian Football Federation since 2025. The Liga 3 is contested by 36 teams, with promotion to the Liga 2 and relegation to the Copa Perú. History The idea of a third division was discussed by the Peruvian Football Federation in 2019. The president of the National Amateur Football Commission, Luis Duarte Plata, had planned to replace Copa Perú with the Liga 3 and hold the last edition in 2020; the 25 departamental champions would participate in the first edition of Liga 3 in 2021. However, the FPF decided to cancel the 2020 edition of the Copa Perú during the District Stage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the FPF, through the National Subcommission of Amateur Football, decided to reconsider the idea of a new league that would be the first step towards professionalization for c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
