Estadio Claudio Chiqui Tapia
football stadium in Argentina
Estadio Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia is a football stadium located in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The stadium has a capacity of 12,000 spectators and is the home ground of Barracas Central.
Having been opened in 1916, the stadium is one of the oldest in the city of Buenos Aires.
History
Inaugurated in 1916, the stadium was initially called "Estadio Olavarría y Luna", being renamed to "Estadio Claudio Fabián Tapia" in 2008, as an honour to "Chiqui" Tapia, who was the president of the club at that time. Tapia had been also player of the club.
The stadium its original structure of wooden grandstands until 1970, when the club replaced them by cement stands, also removing the roof in the official grandstand. In 2006, a new grandstand for visitors was inaugurated on one of the sides. Five years later, eight press boxes were inaugurated. The royal boxes were named "Julio Grondona" and "Hugo Moyano" (then president of Club Atlético Independiente and father-in-law of Tapia).
After Barracas Central promoted to Primera División in 2021 after beating Quilmes on penalties, the team had to play their home matches in other stadiums because the Barracas venue did not meet security requirements that the Argentine Football Association demanded.
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