Estádio José Antônio Abílio de Lima

The name over the gate carries a story most fans in the crowd never hear in full. Locally, none of that matters much: everyone still calls it Abilhão.

The ground opened on 27 October 1965, the same date Quixadá Futebol Clube itself was founded. It belongs to the municipality, run out of the Prefeitura, but the club has always played there as home.

The place has had its rough patches. In January 2016, the mayor of Quixadá tore up his knee stepping out for a friendly meant to mark the switch-on of new floodlights. Two months later, the state's public prosecutors recommended the ground be shut to professional football altogether, citing cracked structures, faulty wiring and no proper access for disabled fans.

None of that has stopped Abilhão from staying in use for the football that matters most locally. It hosted the Série B semi-finals of the 2025 Campeonato Cearense, with Quixadá FC grinding out the results it needed at home. Concerts and civic events go to the city's squares instead — the stadium keeps to football.