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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Tauro FC | Opening: 1970 | Capacity: 29,000 seats<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Estadio Rommel Fernandez was built to serve as the venue for the XI Central American and Caribbean Games. The stadium, initially called Estadio Revolucion, officially opened on 6 February 1970.<\/p>\n

In 1993, Estadio Revolucion got renamed Estadio Rommel Fernandez after the at that time best footballer of the country who lost his life in a traffic accident in Spain.<\/p>\n

The stadium got extensively redeveloped between 2006 and 2010, which included the construction of an extra tier that raised capacity from 22,000 to 29,000, though capacity numbers\u00a0vary and in reality no more than 26,500 tickets get sold for a match.<\/p>\n

Besides being the home of Tauro FC, Estadio Rommel Fernandez is also the standard playing venue of the Panama national team.<\/p>\n

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