page_title: Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
section_title: Estádio Palestra Itália (1917–2010)
hierarchical_section_title: Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras / Stadium / Estádio Palestra Itália (1917–2010)
caption_attribution_description: Português: Vista de Fora do Estádio Palestra Itália e de Outras Acomodações da Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
context_page_description: Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is a Brazilian professional football club based in the district of Barra Funda, São Paulo. Palmeiras is a popular and successful Brazilian club, with around 18 million supporters and 126,000 affiliated fans, including many Brazilians of Italian ancestry. Despite being primarily an association football team, Palmeiras competes in a number of different sports. The football team plays in the Campeonato Paulista, the state of São Paulo's premier state league, as well as in the Brasileirão Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system.
  Palmeiras was founded by Italian immigrants on August 26th, 1914, as "Palestra Itália". However, the club changed its name on September 14th, 1942, as a result of Brazil joining the Allies in the Second World War against Italy and the Axis power. Since then, Palmeiras has won 14 national competitions, including a record 10 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 3 Copa do Brasil, and 1 Copa dos Campeões, making it the most successful club in domestic competitions inside Brazil.
context_section_description: Estádio Palestra Itália was home of Palmeiras from 1917 to 2010. The venue was also known as Parque Antártica because the area was a park built by the Antarctica Paulista Brewing Company in the beginning of the last century, before being acquired by Palmeiras in 1920. In the past its capacity was listed as 35,000 spectators. However, even though its grandstands were extended in the late 1990s, it held only seats 27,640 people due to regulations which enforce safety and comfort.
  It was one of the most important Brazilian grounds, considering the amount of decisive and important matches played there. Examples of matches played in Palestra Itália include 1999 Copa Libertadores final, the Copa Mercosur finals of 1998, 1999 and 2000, 1996 Copa do Brasil final and several Campeonato Paulista finals.
  The last official match played in the stadium was against Grêmio for the Série A on May 22, 2010, and the last match played was a friendly against Boca Juniors on July 9, 2010.
caption: Estádio Palestra Itália in 2010
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