Stadium
Racing Club plays its home games at "Estadio Presidente Perón" (named in honor of former President of Argentina Juan Domingo Perón), popularly known as El Cilindro de Avellaneda" due to its cylindrical shape. It was opened in 1950 and restructured in 1997.
The measures of the field are 105 x 70 mts. The Racing stadium is the 2nd. largest after River Plate stadium. At the beginning the venue could host a capacity of 120,000 but subsequent restructurings reduced its capacity to 64.161.
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