Stadium
When Cobresal postulated for play in the Second division, one of the requirements was an appropriate stadium with a grass field. That was a great problem for the club, because it would cost much to have grass in that area because El Salvador is located in the middle of the Atacama Desert. But the directive and the population's people achieved the construction of a new stadium that would have grass in the zone of the Sausalito field. Finally, after of nearly one year of construction, the stadium was opened on 1 June 1980, with the name of El Cobre Stadium.
Years later, the capacity increased to 20,752 persons because the participation of Cobresal in the 1986 Copa Libertadores, according the Conmebol rules, despite the village's population that is three times lower. In 1999, the artificial lights were installed with the reason of transmissions of television.
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