The stadium has a maximum capacity of 4,984 people[5] and was built in 1990. The name (and the fame) came from the circumstance that the stadium lies on the Equator, zero latitude. The midfield line is aligned with the nearby Marco Zero Monument, though it is about two seconds north in the World Geodetic System 84.
Zerão is owned by the Amapá State Government. The stadium is named after Milton de Souza Corrêa, who was a former president of the Amapá State Football Federation. The stadium is nicknamed after the neighborhood where it is located, Marco Zero (the neighborhood is named Marco Zero—"mark 0" in English—as it is located on the Equator). Zerão means Big Zero, denoting the zeroth latitude, the Equator.
History
Estádio Milton Corrêa in 2014
In 1990, the work on Zerão was completed. It was named Estádio Ayrton Senna, after the Formula 1 driver. The inaugural match was played on 17 October of that year, when Independente beat Trem 1–0. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Independente's Mirandinha. The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 10,000, set on that match.
In 1994, after Milton de Souza Corrêa's death, the stadium was renamed to its current name, Estádio Milton Corrêa.
The Zerão closed in 2007, and after seven years of remodeling, the stadium reopened in 2014.[6]
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