Ground
Estadio Parque El Teniente | |
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Opened | 1945 |
Capacity | 14,450 |
Field dimensions | 105 m × 68 m (344 ft × 223 ft) |
The home ground of club is the Estadio Parque El Teniente, built in September 1945 and located in Rancagua, being named Braden Copper Company Stadium, because that company was the stadium's owner. The first professional game was during the 1955 Primera División tournament, in a match that O'Higgins won 3–2 to Ferrobádminton.
In 1960, after the 9.5 Earthquake of Valdivia that destroyed the original venues of the 1962 FIFA World Cup, the Chilean delegation designed to the city of Rancagua as venue, after the refusal of Valparaíso and Antofagasta. The first international match was between Argentina and Bulgaria, in where with a goal of Héctor Facundo, the South Americans defeated to the Europeans on 30 May, being the home local stadium of all matches related to the Group D, and one quarterfinal game between West Germany and Yugoslavia.
The Government of Chile, acquired the 51% of shares to United States' Braden Copper Company in 1967, as part of the copper nationalization, that culminated four years later, becoming property of Codelco Chile, being re–named with the current name of Parque El Teniente, in reference to mine ubicated in locality of Machalí. On 6 May 2011, was reported that would be feature in the 2015 Copa América, with capacity for 16,000 persons, being confirmed that new by the club's owner Ricardo Abumohor, the next year.
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