Maracanã Stadium, officially named Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, is an association football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The stadium is part of a complex that includes an arena known by the name of Maracanãzinho, which means "The Little Maracanã" in Portuguese.
It is located in the Maracanã neighborhood, named after the Rio Maracanã, a now canalized river in Rio de Janeiro.
The stadium was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup, in which Brazil was beaten 2–1 by Uruguay in the deciding game, in front of a still standing record attendance of 173,850 spectators, on 16 July 1950.
The venue has seen attendances of 150,000 or more at 26 occasions and has seen crowds of more than 100,000 284 times.
Fluminense and Flamengo still own the all-time club record attendance, with 194,603 spectators supporting its clubs in the world famous Fla–Flu derby.
Fluminense Football Club, known as Fluminense or more commonly as Flu, is a Brazilian sports club best known for its professional football team that competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, the first tier of Brazilian football, and the Carioca Championship, the state league of Rio de Janeiro.
The club is based in the neighbourhood of Laranjeiras since its foundation in 1902.
Fluminense is the oldest football club in Rio de Janeiro.
Fluminense have been crowned national champions four times, most recently in the 2012 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A the team have also won the 2007 Copa do Brasil and the 1952 Copa Rio.
Its best international performances are finishing champions of the 2023 Copa Libertadores, and reaching the 2008 Copa Libertadores finals.
Fluminense is the gentilic given to people born in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.
Fluminense's traditional home kit consists of an iconic combination of three colors burgundy, white, and green, disposed in vertical stripes, since its adoption in 1904.
White shorts and white socks, an outfit which has been in use since 1920, complement the home kit for O Tricolor.
The club holds several long-standing rivalries with other clubs, most notably with Flamengo (Clássico Fla-Flu), Botafogo (Clássico Vovô) and Vasco da Gama (Clássico dos Gigantes).
The Clássico Fla-Flu in particular is widely considered one of the greatest football derbies in Brazil and South America, having eventually set the world record for the highest attendance in a match between football clubs (over 200.000 spectators in the stadium of Maracanã).
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