Estadio Alfredo Beranger is a

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located in Turdera, a city in

Lomas de Zamora Partido Lomas de Zamora is a '' partido'' (district) of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration. It has an area of and a population of 613,192 (), the second-most populous partido in the Greater Buenos ...

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. It is owned by

Club Atlético Temperley Club Atlético Temperley is an Argentine sports club from the city of Temperley in Greater Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football ...

, which host their home games there. The stadium, inaugurated on 13 April 1924, holds 26,000 people. Its facilities include 24 press booths and a

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system that consists of four 25m-height towersEl estadio
on C.A. Temperley

Overview

left, 150px, The stadium is named after former president of the club Alfredo Beranger (1891–1923) The stadium was named after Alfredo Martín Beranger, president of C.A. Temperley since 1919 until his assassination in March 923. Beranger is also regarded as the most prominent president in the history of the club.Vida, obra y muerte de Alfredo Beranger, el hombre más importante en la historia del Club A. Temperley
by Carlos Aira, 31 May 2023 Temperley had started playing on a field in Turdera, then moving to "Campo Huergo" (near current Hospital Español),Historia
on Temperley website where they remained until 1924 when the team played their first match in the current location. That land was obtained through the management of Alfredo Beranger, who at the end of 1922 began to negotiate with the

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(''Ferrocarril del Sud'') for its sale. It was he who provided his financial and verbal guarantee. Once the club took over the land, it was necessary to evict some families who had settled there. A member of one of those families, feeling humiliated after the eviction, murdered Beranger.El increíble crimen de Alfredo Beranger que marcó al Club Temperley
on La Unión de Lomas, The stadium was officially inaugurated on April 13, 1924, in a match where Temperley (then named "Centenario Football Club") played vs

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, winning 2–1. The club built the first grandstand on Av. 9 de Julio in the 1930s. In 1947 that stand was replaced by a concrete grandstand while ten years after a new grandstand (on the opposite direction) and the stalls were built. In 2005 the stadium inaugurated its

system in a friendly match vs the River Plate reserve team. Temperley won 2–1, with goals of Pablo Caballero and Lucas Hure.A 15 años de la inauguración de las luces en el Beranger
on Solo Ascenso, 30 Jul 2020 The club renovated the stadium stalls in 2012 (commemorating their 100th. anniversary) replacing the old wooden stalls for new ones made in plastic.

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