Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo is a stadium in São Paulo, Brazil. It is popularly known as Morumbi because of its location in the city's Morumbi district. It is the home ground of São Paulo FC, and has 80,000 seats.
Morumbi used to have 120,000 seats available, but now its maximum capacity is only 80,000 seats, and only 75,000 tickets are sold each game for safety reasons.
Only eight years later, in 1960, the construction was partially concluded, and the stadium was inaugurated with a maximum capacity of 70,000 people.
In 1970, the stadium construction was finally concluded, and the stadium maximum capacity was increased to 140,000 people.
In 1952 the construction of the Morumbistadium began, it was a very slow process, because the club didn't have a lot of budget, otherwise, the São Paulo FC began the 50's with a financial crisis, until that in 1960 the Morumbi was partially inaugurated.
The stadium only took its current form in 1971, when it became " the largest private stadium of the world ", the project of Morumbi belonged to the architect Vilanova Artigas.
The contruction period of the Morumbistadium brought a great time without titles to the Tricolor, that would last 13 years.
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