Urbano Caldeira

The gates opened in January 2023 for a 24-hour public wake for Pelé , and the crowd filed past on the ground where he had played his farewell match on 2 October 1974.

Santos built it themselves. A commission of directors — Luiz Suplicy Júnior, Harold Cross, Sebastião Arantes Nogueira and Francisco Viriato Corrêa da Costa — bought the land from Companhia Santista de Habitações Econômicas, and the first official match followed on 22 October 1916, a 2–1 win over Clube Atlético Ypiranga with Adolpho Millon Jr. scoring the first goal. The ground was renamed Estádio Urbano Caldeira on 24 March 1933, in honour of a former player, coach and benefactor who had died earlier that month; the district's name stuck all the same.

The attendance record belongs to a match nobody finished. It ended goalless.

Floodlights arrived in 1931. The 1997 rebuild added a fourth stand and around 4,000 places, along with a Bermuda grass surface and computer-controlled irrigation and drainage; new seats and a scoreboard followed in 2009. The ground took the second leg of the 1962 Copa Libertadores final against Peñarol, marred by incidents, and the first leg of the 2010 Copa do Brasil final. Since 2003 it has housed the Memorial das Conquistas museum.