Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo is a
football stadium, in
Las Condes in the metropolitan region of
Santiago de Chile. It is used mostly for home matches stadium of the Chilean top club
Universidad Católica which also owns the stadium. The stadium was built in 1988 and currently holds 20,000 people.
Universidad Católica has owned four stadiums: Estadio Universidad Católica, located in the Maestranza and Marcoleta sector;
Campos de Sports de Ñuñoa, which already had an extensive history in Chilean sports; Independencia, located in the homonymous commune of
Santiago and inaugurated on October 12, 1945; and San Carlos de Apoquindo, which opened its doors on September 4, 1988. The football stadium was not the whole complex, the stadium had also
rugby,
athletics and some other sport fields.
On the grass of San Carlos de Apoquindo, Universidad Católica has won various trophies. For example, in the
Chilean Primera División in the seasons 2002 (Apertura tournament), 2010, 2016 (Clausura tournament), 2019 (Season where the team received the trophy at home without playing the last games due to the
social outbreak of that year) y 2020.[5][6]
San Carlos de Apoquindo also knew about international competitions. In 1994, Católica faced Saprissa of Costa Rica in the final of the
1993 Copa Interamericana, winning with an aggregate score of 6-4 (3-1 in favor of each team in the round-trip matches, and 2-0 in the extension of the revenge game). In that final game,
Juvenal Olmos' goal was essential to force overtime when the final minutes of regulation time were played.[7]
The highest attendance for a football match at San Carlos de Apoquindo to date is 20,936, for a 0–0 tie between
Universidad Católica and
Cobreloa on November 1, 1992.
Concerts
The stadium has hosted concerts by famous artists, spanning many different genres. The number of recitals performed that same year in San Carlos is recorded in parentheses.