Estadio Obras Sanitarias

Obras Sanitarias Arena
Estadio Obras Sanitarias
	The stadium during a basketball game in 2007
Location	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Coordinates	34°32′44.12″S 58°27′29.18″W / 34.5455889°S 58.4581056°W
Owner	Club Obras Sanitarias
Capacity	4,700 (concerts) ; 3,100 (sports)
Surface	Parquet
Opened	June 1978; 46 years ago
Tenants
	Obras Sanitarias
Website
	estadioobras.com.ar

Estadio Obras Sanitarias is an indoor arena that is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The arena, home venue of club Obras Sanitarias, is mainly used to host basketball games and concerts. It has a capacity of 3,100 people for basketball games, and 4,700 people for concerts.^[1]

Since its inauguration in 1978 the arena has held mostly rock music concerts so it was nicknamed the temple of rock.^[2]

History

Estadio Obras Sanitarias was opened in June 1978.^[3] Over the years, the arena has been one of two home venues often used by the sports club Obras Sanitarias, with the other being the Polideportivo Municipal de San Rafael.

The arena has hosted the FIBA Intercontinental Cup tournament four times. It hosted the FIBA Intercontinental Cup's 1978 edition,^[4] the 1983 edition,^[3]^[5] in which the local club Obras Sanitarias won the title,^[5] the 1986 edition, in which Žalgiris Kaunas won the title,^[6] and also the 2021 edition.

During its history, the arena has also hosted numerous musical concerts, particularly rock concerts, which has led to the arena being given the nickname of "Templo del Rock" ("Temple of Rock"). The first band to perform there was "Banda Spinetta", leaded by Luis Alberto Spinetta, in September 1978. From 2006 to 2012, the arena had the name sponsorship of Estadio Pepsi Music (Pepsi Music Stadium), as part of a multinational marketing campaign of the Pepsi company, which sponsored rock festivals and concerts at the arena.

Concerts held

Live albums

Some of the live albums and DVDs recorded at the stadium include (in brackets, the year when the album was recorded):

Serú Girán - No llores por mí, Argentina (1982)
Megadeth - That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (2005)
KISS - Live...Buenos Aires '94 (1994)
Hermética - Lo último (1994)
La Renga - Bailando en una pata (1995)
Attaque 77 - Trapos (2001)
Bersuit Vergarabat - De la Cabeza (2001)
Almafuerte - En Vivo Obras 2001 (2001)

References

^ "Nuestra Casa". Archived from the original on 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
^ Historias de los estadios del rock en la Argentina, parte I: Obras Sanitarias by Gastón Calvo on Teleshow, 27 Jun 2020
^ ^a ^b "Bienvenido a la Página Oficial del CLUB ATLETICO OBRAS SANITARIAS DE LA NACION". Archived from the original on 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
^ X Intercontinental Cup (Buenos Aires 1978)
^ ^a ^b XV Intercontinental Cup (Buenos Aires 1983)
^ XVIII Intercontinental Cup (Buenos Aires 1986)

External links

Official website

Preceded by Pabellón de la Ciudad Deportiva Madrid	FIBA Intercontinental Cup Final Venue 1978	Succeeded by Ginásio do Ibirapuera São Paulo
Preceded by Maaspoort Sports and Events Den Bosch	FIBA Intercontinental Cup Final Venue 1983	Succeeded by Ginásio do Ibirapuera São Paulo
Preceded by Palau Blaugrana Barcelona	FIBA Intercontinental Cup Final Venue 1986	Succeeded by PalaTrussardi Milan
Preceded by Santiago Martín San Cristóbal de La Laguna	FIBA Intercontinental Cup Final Venue 2021	Succeeded by Hassan Moustafa Sports Hall Cairo