Estadio Municipal Eliécer Pérez Conejo

Estadio Municipal Eliécer Pérez Conejo stands in the Sarchí Norte area of Costa Rica. The ground is small. Its capacity of two thousand five hundred seats means visitors and locals share the same space. The playing surface is natural grass, which owns the site. AD Sarchí calls it home, and the club has spent seasons in the Costa Rican Liga de Ascenso and the Segunda División.

What distinguishes it is the atmosphere of a town that uses the stadium for everything at once. On match days the stands fill with families and friends who know each other from outside the gate. In the 2022 Torneo de Copa de Costa Rica, the ground hosted a 0-0 draw between Sarchí and Grecia in the round of 16, a match that passed without incident but did not score either. Derbies with AD Grecia carry extra weight here, not because of trophies but because of proximity and pride. One such fixture against Palmares was suspended for over an hour after player aggressions and altercations spilled onto the touchline, leaving the players and supporters waiting as officials worked to restore order.

The stadium is named after Eliécer Pérez Conejo, though no formal ceremony is recorded. The structure itself has not changed shape dramatically over the years, but the light has shifted, and the people watching have changed too. It is a place where nothing is hidden. The grass grows under the same sun that warms the street outside, and the sound of the ball hitting the net travels to the nearest house.