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| Full name | Arena Coliseu Mateus Aquino |
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| Location | Alto Santo, Ceará, Brazil |
| Coordinates | 5°30′51″S 38°15′57″W / 5.51417°S 38.26583°W |
| Owner | Municipality of Alto Santo |
| Operator | Municipality of Alto Santo |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Field size | 105 x 68 m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 2009 |
| Built | 2009–2015 |
| Opened | August 9, 2015 |
| Construction cost | BRL 1.3 million |
| Tenants | |
| Alto Santo Esporte Clube | |
Arena Coliseu Mateus Aquino (Mateus Aquino Colosseum Arena), also known as Coliseu do Sertão, is a Brazilian football stadium located at the entrance to the urban area of Alto Santo, a municipality in Ceará located in the Baixo Jaguaribe micro-region, 243 kilometers from Fortaleza. It gained national and even international fame[1] for its peculiar structure and the controversy about the construction.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ "O Sertão vai virar Roma?". Diário do Nordeste (in Portuguese). 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ "Após seis anos de obras, 'Coliseu do Sertão' é inaugurado no Ceará". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ "Antes para 20 mil, Coliseu cearense estreia, após 6 anos, para 900 pessoas". Globo Esporte (in Portuguese). 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ "Obra do Coliseu cearense se arrasta há cinco anos em cidade sem futebol". Globo Esporte (in Portuguese). 24 July 2014. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ "Estádio de R$ 1,3 milhão, 'Coliseu do Sertão' é inaugurado no interior do CE". G1: Bom Dia Brasil (in Portuguese). 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 6 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2022.