The Estadio Tomás Beggan Correa is a football stadium in the neighborhood of
Ricardo Brugada, a.k.a. La Chacarita, in the city of
Asunción
Asunción (, ) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the north ...
, Paraguay. It has a capacity of 3,500 seats.
It is the home venue of
Primera División club
Resistencia.
The name of the stadium is in honor of a former president of the club, under whose mandate the club's first official title was achieved in 1966.
During the flooding of the
Paraguay River
The Paraguay River (''Ysyry Paraguái'' in Guarani language, Guarani, ''Rio Paraguai'' in Portuguese language, Portuguese, ''Río Paraguay'' in Spanish language, Spanish) is a major river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Bol ...
at the end of 2015, the field was reached by the waters and the facilities were severely affected.
In December 2016, on the
club's 99th anniversary, the project to expand the stadium's capacity to around 6,500 people was launched.
References
Football venues in Paraguay
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