Stadium
The stadium El Campín located in Bogotá, is the venue where Independiente Santa Fe plays their home games. Its capacity is 40,343. Santa fe's supporters traditionally tend to sit in the southernmost half of the stadium. The Nemesio Camacho, also known as "El Campin" was inaugurated on August 10, 1938 at 57th Street with 30, having started its construction in 1935 on the initiative of the mayor of Bogotá, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. The structure was handled by Engineer Frederick Leder Müller. The stadium was designed to hold 10,000 spectators. The opening match was carried out by the national football team of Colombia and Ecuador national football team, with a 2:1 victory for Ecuadorians. In 1951, the year that Santa Fe begins to use it to its home games, the first change is made to expand the seating capacity to 39,000 spectators, before the team played its home games at Estadio Alfonso Lopez, University national.
The second extension of Campin occurred in 1952 with a dramatic transformation. The total capacity stood at 62.500 spectators, but is limited to 48,000 for security. The last major modification, take shape for the qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. After the reform so that the stadium can host the World Cup U-20 2011, the stadium that seats 36,343 was espectadores.2 The site is owned by the Capital District and named after Nemesio Camacho, owner of then territory where the stadium is located.
Other scenarios used by Santa Fe for their commitments at home by Copa Colombia, have been the Roof Metropolitan Stadium, Municipal Stadium in Los Zipas Zipaquirá and Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento Stadium in Soacha.
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