Estádio Décio Vitta , nicknamed Riobrancão , is a multi-use stadium located in Americana, São Paulo , Brazil . It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Rio Branco Esporte Clube and Americana Futebol . The stadium has a maximum capacity of 16,000 people and was built in 1977. It is owned by Rio Branco Esporte Clube, and is named after Décio Vitta, who was a Rio Branco counselor and director, and co-ordinated the stadium construction.
6-536: In 1954, Rio Branco ceded its football field to the São Paulo state government, which built a state school there, and in exchange, the government ceded a new groundplot to the club. In 1971, the stadium construction started, after Rio Branco and the Americana city hall came to an agreement. The construction finished in 1977, and the stadium was inaugurated on May 1 of that year, with the name Riobrancão. The inaugural match
12-530: A fierce rivalry with São José . 1979 Campeonato Paulista second division final match was an epic match between them. Another rival of Taubaté is Guaratinguetá . The club's mascot is a donkey, known as Burro da Central ( burro means donkey in Portuguese ). In 1954, the club played the Campeonato Paulista second division final against Comercial of Ribeirão Preto and fielded an ineligible player in
18-593: A sports venue in Brazil is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Esporte Clube Taubat%C3%A9 Esporte Clube Taubaté , commonly referred to as Taubaté , is a professional association football club based in Taubaté , São Paulo , Brazil. The team competes in Campeonato Paulista Série A2 , the second tier of the São Paulo state football league . The club's home colours are blue and white and
24-561: The colors of the club were chosen: blue and white. On November 1, 1914, the club was founded as Sport Club Taubaté. The first match of the club was on December 25, 1914, against AA Palmeiras at Estádio da Praça Monsenhor Silva Barros (known also as Campo do Bosque) in Taubaté. The match ended with a defeat by 1–6. The players of Taubaté were Paulinho, Luiz Simi, Paiva; Synésio, Sérgio Areão, Hugo; Paulo Silva, Waldemiro, Renato Granadeiro (captain), Abreu and Jacinto. Irito also played. Taubaté has
30-399: The team mascot is a donkey . The idea of founding a football club in Taubaté appeared when the football fans José Pedro de Oliveira, Jayme Tindal and Frederico Livrero had a meeting at Associação Comercial, and they decided to study the viability of founding a football club in the city. At that meeting they decided that the name of the club would be Sport Club Taubaté. On October 25, 1914,
36-551: Was played on that day, when Americana beat Taubaté 2–1. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Americana's Niltinho. In 1981, Rio Branco's president at the time, Délcio Dollo, proposed the stadium to be renamed Décio Vitta, however, this happened only in 1986. The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 19,173, set on March 9, 1993, when Rio Branco beat São Paulo 1–0. 22°44′03.94″S 47°20′52.83″W / 22.7344278°S 47.3480083°W / -22.7344278; -47.3480083 This article about
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