Estádio Santa Cruz
Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Formerly: Arena Eurobike, Arena Nicnet Eurobike
Botafogo-SP built its home here as Estádio Santa Cruz. Between 2018 and 2019 the stadium underwent a transformation into a multi-purpose venue, rebranded Arena Eurobike and later Arena Nicnet Eurobike, with a fixed stage complex for 15,000 people, a retail boulevard housing a Hard Rock Cafe and the Walfänger brewery, a roughly 70-square-metre LED screen, and VIP additions including two lounges, thirteen boxes and thirty-four suites. Capacity came down from the historic 60,000-plus to today's roughly 29,000.
The ground opened on 21 January 1968 with a friendly between Botafogo and the Romania national team, which the hosts won 6-2. Its record attendance dates to 17 March 1993, when Brazil drew 2-2 with Poland in front of a crowd sources put at either 62,000 or 49,358 — the gap wide enough that neither figure can be stated as settled. Brazil had already visited in competitive form on 14 March 1981, beating Chile 2-1. In 2014, the France national team used the site as a training base during its World Cup preparations.
Since the rebuild, the concert bill has run alongside the football fixtures: Xuxa played in 1995, Roberto Carlos in 2010, David Guetta returned twice, in 2014 and 2015, and Helloween performed in 2022.
Who plays here
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Botafogo SP
149 matches
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Botafogo SP U20 78 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep | Botafogo SP — Novorizontino | 1:3 |
| 29 Aug | Botafogo SP — Cuiabá | 1:2 |
| 20 Aug | Botafogo SP — Criciúma | 1:1 |
| 14 Aug | Botafogo SP U20 — Novorizontino U20 | 2:1 |
| 8 Aug | Botafogo SP — América Mineiro | 2:1 |
| 7 Aug | Botafogo SP U20 — Santo André U20 | 4:1 |
| 26 Jul | Botafogo SP U20 — Desportivo Brasil U20 | 1:1 |
| 24 Jul | Botafogo SP — Juventude | 4:2 |