Arena Fonte Nova

Casa de Apostas Arena Fonte Nova
Fonte Nova
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Full name	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
Location	Ladeira da Fonte das Pedras, Nazaré, Salvador, Brazil
Coordinates	12°58′43″S 38°30′15″W
Owner	State of Bahia
Operator	Fonte Nova Negócios e Participações S/A
Capacity	47,915
Field size	105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft)
Surface	Grass
Construction
Broke ground	2010
Opened	April 7, 2013
Construction cost	R$ 591 million; US$ 267 million
Architect	Marc Duwe and Claas Schulitz
Structural engineer	Mathias Kutterer, Yu Hui , Jorge Cheveney
Tenants
	Bahia; Vitória (some matches)

The Casa de Apostas Arena Fonte Nova,^[3] also known as Complexo Esportivo Cultural Professor Octávio Mangabeira, is a football-specific stadium located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and has a maximum capacity of 47,915 people.^[1] The stadium was built in place of the older Estádio Fonte Nova.

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The stadium was first used for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the subsequent 2014 FIFA World Cup, including the 5–1 win of The Netherlands over reigning World Champions Spain.^[4] It was used as one of the venues for the football competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[5]^[6]

A group of architects from Brunswick, Germany, which also redesigned the old Hanover stadium into a modern arena for the 2006 Cup, was selected after bidding.^[7] In 2013, brewery Itaipava from Grupo Petrópolis bought the naming rights, turning the stadium into "Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova" under a sponsorship agreement until the year 2023, amounting to $100m. This was the first naming rights agreement signed for the 2014 World Cup stadiums.^[8] After the contract ended, betting website Casa de Apostas bought the naming rights in 2024.^[9]

The stadium was inaugurated on April 7, 2013, with a Campeonato Baiano game in which Vitória defeated Bahia 5–1. The first player to score a goal in the stadium was Vitória's Renato Cajá. During this match, some supporters were unable to see the game completely due to some blind spots.^[10] The stadium had excessive dust and some puddles.^[10] The company responsible for the stadium, owned by Grupo OAS and Odebrecht, said it was aware of the problems.^[10]

On May 27, 2013, a section of the roof collapsed after heavy rain.^[11]

2013 FIFA Confederations Cup

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Date	Time (UTC-03)	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round	Attendance
June 20, 2013	19:00	Nigeria	1–2	Uruguay	Group B	26,769
June 22, 2013	16:00	Italy	2–4	Brazil	Group A	48,874
June 30, 2013	13:00	Uruguay	2–2 (a.e.t.) (2–3 pen.)	Italy	3rd place	43,382

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2014 FIFA World Cup

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Date	Time (UTC-03)	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round	Attendance
June 13, 2014	16:00	Spain	1–5	Netherlands	Group B	48,173^[12]
June 16, 2014	13:00	Germany	4–0	Portugal	Group G	51,081
June 20, 2014	16:00	Switzerland	2–5	France	Group E	51,003
June 25, 2014	13:00	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3–1	Iran	Group F	48,011
July 1, 2014	17:00	Belgium	2–1 (a.e.t.)	United States	Round of 16	51,227
July 5, 2014	17:00	Netherlands	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 pen.)	Costa Rica	Quarter-finals	51,179

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2016 Summer Olympics - Men's Football

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Date	Time (UTC-03)	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round	Attendance
August 4, 2016	17:00	Mexico	2–2	Germany	Group C	16,500
August 4, 2016	20:00	Fiji	0–8	South Korea	Group C	16,000
August 7, 2016	13:00	Fiji	1–5	Mexico	Group C	11,200
August 7, 2016	16:00	Germany	3–3	South Korea	Group C	17,121
August 10, 2016	19:00	Japan	1–0	Sweden	Group B	17,821
August 10, 2016	22:00	Denmark	0–4	Brazil	Group A	41,067
August 13, 2016	16:00	Nigeria	2–0	Denmark	Quarter-finals	30,307

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2016 Summer Olympics - Women's Football

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Date	Time (UTC-03)	Team #1	Res.	Team #2	Round	Attendance
August 9, 2016	16:00	Australia	6–1	Zimbabwe	Group F	5,115
August 9, 2016	19:00	New Zealand	0–3	France	Group G	7,350
August 12, 2016	16:00	China	0–1	Germany	Quarter-finals	9,642

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2019 Copa América

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Date	Time (UTC-03)	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round	Attendance
June 15, 2019	19:00	Argentina	0–2	Colombia	Group B	35,572
June 18, 2019	21:30	Brazil	0–0	Venezuela	Group A	42,587
June 21, 2019	20:00	Ecuador	1–2	Chile	Group C	14,727
June 23, 2019	16:00	Colombia	1–0	Paraguay	Group B	13,903
June 29, 2019	16:00	Uruguay	0–0 (4–5 pen.)	Peru	Quarter-finals	21,180

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Date	Time (UTC-03)	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round	Attendance
November 17, 2015	21:00	Brazil	3–0	Venezuela	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	45,000
November 19, 2024	21:45	Brazil	1–1	Uruguay	2026 FIFA World Cup qualification

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The Brazilian Bid for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2027 (PDF). FIFA. December 8, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
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Official Website Archived June 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
Bid inspection report

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The Brazilian Bid for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2027 (PDF). FIFA. December 8, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2024.

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"Comunicado - Notícias | Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova". Archived from the original on March 21, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017.

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"Arena Fonte Nova" (in Portuguese). Secopa. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved June 28, 2011.

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"Brasil apresenta proposta da Copa de 2014" (in Portuguese). Gazeta On Line. Archived from the original on June 10, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2007.

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"Brazil's Fonte Nova Stadium a Bright Light Ahead of Olympic Soccer at Rio 2016". June 29, 2016.

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"Rio 2016: this year's Olympic venues". The Telegraph. July 29, 2016. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved January 14, 2021.

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Cida Paiva. "Tetra Projetos e Schulitz: Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador". Arcoweb.

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"Fonte Nova é 1º estádio da Copa a acertar naming rights". Estadão.

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Acorda Cidade. "Casa de Apostas Arena Fonte Nova inicia mudança de comunicação visual". Archived from the original on February 4, 2024. Retrieved February 6, 2024.

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Neto, Nelson Barros (April 8, 2013). "Pontos cegos fazem com que torcedores não enxerguem o campo na Fonte Nova". Folha Esporte (in Portuguese). Salvador: Grupo Folha. Retrieved April 8, 2013.

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"BBC News - Brazil's Arena Fonte Nova stadium suffers roof collapse". Bbc.co.uk. May 27, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2013.

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"Match report – Spain–Netherlands" (PDF). FIFA.com (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). June 13, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 30, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.

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