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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Deportivo Cali | Opening: 2008 | Capacity: 42,000<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Estadio Deportivo Cali, often nicknamed Estadio Palmaseca due to its location near the town\u00a0of Palmaseca, was the first large club-owned stadium to be built in Colombia.<\/p>\n

Deportivo Cali started making plans for\u00a0a new club-owned stadium in the late 1990s, inspired by several stadiums in Ecuador including Estadio Monumental<\/a> and Estadio Capwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First concrete plans were presented in 1998, and the nearby city of Palmira lured the club to their municipality with a 10-year tax-exempt deal.<\/p>\n

Construction of the new stadium began in 2002, but progress moved slowly and was even temporarily halted when ceramics and human remains of ancient indigenous people were found at the construction site. Scarcity of iron and water supply\u00a0issues further added to the delays.<\/p>\n

The first match at Estadio Deportivo Cali was played on the 29 October 2008, a friendly between Deportivo Cali and Liga de Quito (1-0). However, the stadium was still plagued by multiple issues, only half-finished, and it took until February 2010 for it to be officially inaugurated and even longer before becoming the permanent home of Deportivo Cali.<\/p>\n

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