* Address: Cabudare
* Country: Venezuela
* Capacity: 47,000
* Opened: 2007
* Main use: Football
* Tenants: Deportivo Lara (football)
Extra stadium info – Estadio Metropolitano de fútbol de Lara
The stadium hosted three football matches for the 2007 Copa América. The national football team of Colombia won the first match against the United States. The Argentine Republic won the second match against Paraguay 1-0 and third match against Peru 4-0. The national football team of the Argentine Republic played in the inaugural FIFA World Cup final in 1930. Uruguay won the game, which took place in Uruguay. In 1978, the national football team of the Argentine Republic were crowned world champions for the first time in their history after beating the Netherlands.
Deportivo Lara use the Estadio Metropolitano de fútbol de Lara for home games. The football club was founded in 2009. They were crowned Venezuelan football champions in 2012 for the first time in their history. Deportivo Lara, one of the first Venezuelan sports clubs with 100,000 followers on its main social media page, drew an average home attendance of 12,000 in that domestic league season. In 2013, they finished below the Paraguayan side Club Olimpia, the Argentine side Newell’s Old Boys and the Chilean side Club Universidad de Chile in the group stage of their inaugural Copa Libertadores season.
