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Club: Foot Ball Club Unione Venezia | Opening: 1913 | Capacity: 7,450 seats<\/p>\n
Stadio Pierluigi Penzo opened in 1913, which makes it the second oldest stadium with a professional club in Italy.<\/p>\n
The stadium was initially a simple wooden structure, but got further expanded in the 1920s. Works included the construction of a new concrete main stand. With the promotion of Venezia to the Seria A in 1939, the stadium got further modernised and enlarged.<\/p>\n
Stadio Pierluigi Penzo set its record attendance in 1966 when 26,000 spectators witnessed a match between Venezia and Milan.<\/p>\n
The stadium got heavily damaged when a tornado hit the island in 1971. Few repairs were made and capacity therefore dropped to a mere 5,000 places.<\/p>\n
When Venezia started to climb up the leagues again in the 1990s, the stadium got slowly expanded, and new makeshift stands were added when they promoted to Serie A in 1998. It could hold just under 15,000 spectators then.<\/p>\n
In the last decade, capacity has declined again due to safety measures. The stadium has slowly fallen into disrepair and plans have been made for the construction of a new stadium, but progress has been slow and realisation remains unclear.<\/p>\n
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