| Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira | ||
| Couto Pereira | ||
 Couto Pereira | ||
| Full name | Major Antônio Couto Pereira | |
| Owners | Coritiba | |
| Location | R. Ubaldino do Amaral, 37 - Alto da Glória Curitiba - PR | |
| Built | 1932 | |
| Opened | 1932 | |
| Renovated | 2006 | |
| Expanded | 2006 | |
| Capacity | 37,182 (current) 42.005 (in 2014) | |
| Field dimensions | 109m X 72m | |
| Highest attendance | 65.493 (in 1983) | |
Major Antônio Couto Pereira is a stadium in Curitiba. It is where the football club Coritiba play their home matches. It is the first-largest stadium in Paraná.
The stadium has hosted a number of events, incluindo Pope in Curitiba, 2011 and 2012 Brazil Cup final.
History[]
The first stadium of Coritiba was Jóquei Clube Paranaense, in days who don't happens any horse race. In 1916, with support of associates, the club moved to Graciosa Park (Parque Graciosa) in the neighborhood of Juvevê and stayed there to have the contract rescinded. With this termination, Coritiba has paid a good compensation and went to look for land to build a new stadium.
The club was led at the time by Major Antonio Couto Pereira, who dedicated her entire life to Coritiba. It was he who found the site of the current stadium, paid for with a loan of 120 contos de réis (the coin of the time) made in Caixa with interest from 12% per year.
The new stadium, called Belfort Duarte, was ready in 1932, and was opened in same year, with the match Coritiba 4x2 America-RJ. Coxa sent his games until 1956, when the presidente Arion Cornelsen announced that the stadium would be renovated.
Arion claimed that the crowd had grown from Coritiba in the last decade and that this was the right time to expand the Belfort Duarte, given the money that the club had raised with the Sports Lottery, a bill approved at the time (PL 4387/1958) that allowed the sports federations and confederations to extract money from the union through the desportive lottery considered for projects of public interest.
In 1977, with the work already completed, the stadium name was changed from Belfort Duarte to Major Antonio Couto Pereira, named after the man who gave the kickoff for this monument could exist.
Ticket prices[]
- Bleachers (Arquibancadas) = R$95,00 = U$42 = £32
- Mauá Sector = R$120,00 = U$54 = £41
- Higher Social = R$190,00 = U$85 = £65