| Full name | Estadio Guillermo Vargas Roldán |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 10°5′30.16″N84°28′34.58″W / 10.0917111°N 84.4762722°W Coordinates: 10°5′30.16″N84°28′34.58″W / 10.0917111°N 84.4762722°W |
| Owner | City of San Ramón |
| Capacity | 4,000 |
| Field size | 100 x 72 m |
| Surface | grass |
| Opened | 1961 |
| Tenants | |
| Asociación Deportiva Ramonense | |
Estadio Guillermo Vargas Roldán is a multi-use stadium in Alajuela, Costa Rica. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Asociación Deportiva Ramonense. The stadium holds up to 4,000 people. [1]
A stadium is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
Alajuela is the second largest city in Costa Rica. It is also the capital of Alajuela Province.
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around 5 million in a land area of 51,060 square kilometers. An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José with around 2 million people in the surrounding metropolitan area.
The stadium was named in December 1978 after former Ramonense club president Guillermo Vargas Roldán, who died in April 2014, aged 82. [2] He had been president of the club for a record 22 years.
