Description • Architects: Raphael Galvão, Pedro Paulo Bernardes Bastos, Waldir Ramos, Miguel Feldman, Oscar Valdetaro, Orlando Azevedo & Antônio Dias Carneiro.
• Renovations: 1999 to 2000 & 2005 to 2007.
• One of the largest football stadiums in the world, owned by the Rio de Janeiro State Government, named after the Maracanã neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.
• On July 16, 1950 had the highest record of 199.854 spectators which only 173.850 paid really the entrance.
• The first stone was laid at the site of the stadium on August 2, 1948. It is finished on June 16, 1950 for the FIFA World Cup game. Since then, it has mainly been used for football matches between the major football clubs in Rio de Janeiro, likeFlamengo, Fluminense, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama. It has also hosted a number of concerts and other sporting events. Although the paid attendance at the final game of the 1950 FIFA World Cup was 199,500, the stadium currently seats 95,000 spectators.
• On July 19, 1992, an upper stand in the stadium collapsed, leading to the death of three supporters and 50 more being injured. Following the disaster, the stadium's capacity was greatly reduced as it was converted to an all-seater stadium in the late 1990s. Despite this, the ground was classified as real estate in 1998, meaning that it could not be demolished. The stadium hosted the first ever FIFA Club World Cup final match between Vasco da Gama and Corinthians, which Corinthians won on penalties.
• Following its 50th anniversary in 2000, the stadium underwent renovations in 1999 which would increase its full capacity to around 103,000. After years of planning and nine months of closure between 2005 and 2006, the stadium was reopened in January 2007 with its all-seated capacity to 92,000.
• It would host the World Cup Final in 2014, becoming the second stadium to host football's most important match twice after the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.
• One of Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics
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