Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos (Santiago)

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The Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos is the national stadium of Chile, and is located in the Ñuñoa district of Greater Santiago. It is the largest stadium in Chile with an all-seated capacity of 48,000, and is part of a sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics centre, a gymnasium, a velodrome, a BMX circuit, and an assistant ground/warmup athletics track. Club Universidad de Chile and the Chilean national football team play their home games in the stadium.

The stadium was constructed from February 1937 to December 1938 at a cost of $18,000,000. Its original capacity was 48,000. Before the 1962 FIFA World Cup, its capacity was expanded to 74,000 by replacing the cycling track with bench seating. In 2000, individual seating was installed on the stadium's east and west stands, reducing capacity to 66,000. In 2008, the stadium was renamed in honour of Julio Martínez Prádanos, a sports journalist. The stadium underwent a US$42,500,000 renovation from 2009 to 2010, and its capacity was reduced to 48,000.

The stadium hosted the 1941 South American Championship, the finals of the 1959 World Basketball Championship, 10 matches, including the final, of the 1962 FIFA World Cup, the 1976 Davis Cup Final, the 1991 Copa America, and the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was also the main venue of the South American Games in 1986 and 2014. After the Chilean coup d'état of 1973, the stadium and the surrounding complex was used by the military regime as a prison camp from September to November of that year.

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