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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: San Lorenzo de Almagro | Opening: 1993 | Capacity: 47,964<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Estadio Pedro Bidegain, often referred to as El Nuevo Gasometro, got built in 1993 to provide San Lorenzo once again with a home of their own.<\/p>\n

Fourteen years earlier, San Lorenzo had been forced to leave the Old Gasometro when their land got taken by the dictatorial regime and sold to a supermarket chain. They subsequently went on to play at various ground throughout the city while trying to build their own new stadium.<\/p>\n

Their exile ended when Estadio Pedro Bidegain opened 2 kilometres south-west of their old home. It\u00a0officially opened on 16 December 1993 with a match between San Lorenzo and Universidad Catolica (2-1).<\/p>\n

However, San Lorenzo’s\u00a0fans never entirely warmed up to the Nuevo Gasometro and have long longed\u00a0to return to the site of their former home in nearby Boedo. Therefore, when the Argentine government in 2006 approved\u00a0legislation that allowed for the return of illegally taken land during the dictatorial regime, San Lorenzo started planning a return to their former home.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0legal and administrative procedures have been long and slow, San Lorenzo hope to be able to start construction of a new stadium, which will be named after San Lorenzo fan Pope Francis and have a capacity of 38,000 seats, in 2018 and move into their new home in 2020.<\/p>\n

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