Estádio Décio Vitta, nicknamed Riobrancão, is a multi-use

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located in

Americana, São Paulo Americana () is a municipality (''município'') located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. The population is 229,322 (2015 est.) in an area of . The original settlement developed around the lo ...

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. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of

Rio Branco Esporte Clube Rio Branco Esporte Clube, more commonly referred to as Rio Branco de Americana or simply Rio Branco, is a Brazilian football club based in Americana, São Paulo. The team compete in Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão, the fourth tier of th ...

and Americana Futebol. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 16,000 people and was built in 1977. It is owned by Rio Branco Esporte Clube, and is named after Décio Vitta, who was a Rio Branco counselor and director, and co-ordinated the stadium construction.

History

In 1954, Rio Branco ceded its football field to the

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government, which built a state school there, and in exchange, the government ceded a new groundplot to the club. In 1971, the stadium construction started, after Rio Branco and the Americana city hall came to an agreement. The construction finished in 1977, and the stadium was inaugurated on May 1 of that year, with the name Riobrancão. The inaugural match was played on that day, when Americana beat

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2–1. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Americana's Niltinho. In 1981, Rio Branco's president at the time, Délcio Dollo, proposed the stadium to be renamed Décio Vitta, however, this happened only in 1986. The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 19,173, set on March 9, 1993, when Rio Branco beat

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1–0.

References

Templos do Futebol
*''Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro'', Volume 2 - Lance, Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A, 2001.

External links

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