Arena Sicredi

Arena Sicredi sits in the Matosinhos district of São João del-Rei, and its numbers move depending on who is counting: club figures put capacity at 6,000 after renovation work, though older records list closer to 4,600, and a 2024 refurbishment cut access to around 4,000 while crews were on site.

The ground has carried three names in its lifetime, opening as Estádio Joaquim Portugal before a spell as Arena Unimed and now its current sponsor tag. That trail of names tracks a stadium that has changed hands and backers more than once without ever leaving the same patch of ground in Matosinhos.

Athletic Club, known locally as Athletic-MG, calls it home, and the natural turf is laid in Batatais grass, a variety favoured across several Minas Gerais grounds for how it holds up under heavy fixture schedules.