Estádio Onésio Brasileiro Alvarenga
Goiânia, Brazil
Formerly: Estádio Vila Nova, Estádio OBA
Vila Nova play behind a name rather than a stadium tag: Estádio Onésio Brasileiro Alvarenga carries the man's name in full on paperwork, but in Goiânia everyone still calls it OBA, or simply Vila Nova, after the club it was built for and never left. Onésio Brasileiro Alvarenga himself came up through the club as a player before serving as a director, and the ground has kept his name ever since as a settled fact rather than a tribute anyone argues about.
The pitch is natural grass, kept to a standard the club has pointed to when hosting fixtures that demand more than a bare municipal ground. Vila Nova's own supporters know the sightlines from the Setor Universitário side, on Rua 256 near the centre of the city, close enough to downtown that away fans arrive on foot from the bus station rather than needing transport laid on.
Capacity sits under twelve thousand, which keeps OBA in the bracket of grounds built for a single tenant rather than for the city's football at large — there is no shared arrangement here, no second club splitting the calendar. That has meant steady, incremental upkeep over expansion: floodlighting brought up to a more modern standard in recent years, the surface relaid rather than replaced with something artificial, the kind of maintenance that doesn't change a stadium's character so much as keep it standing the way it always has.
Who plays here
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Vila Nova
188 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Sep | Vila Nova — Goiás | 2:0 |
| 30 Aug | Vila Nova — Ceará | 2:0 |
| 20 Aug | Vila Nova — Ponte Preta | 6:0 |
| 8 Aug | Vila Nova — Sport Recife | 0:1 |
| 22 Jul | Vila Nova — Fortaleza | 2:1 |
| 6 Jul | Vila Nova — São Bernardo | 2:1 |
| 20 Jun | Vila Nova — Nautico Recife | 4:3 |
| 9 Jun | Vila Nova — Botafogo SP | 1:0 |