Also popularly known as “Caldeirão dos Barreiros”. The current Marítimo Stadium also used to be called the Professor Marcello Caetano Stadium, a politician who was the last President of the Estado Novo Council, but this 1969 attribution did not last beyond 1970. On that day, May 5th, 1957, there was a friendly match between a team from Madeira and Portugal B, ending with the result 5-2, to the delight of 12 thousand spectators.The history of this stadium dates back to 1925, when the Clube Desportivo Nacional acquired the land, where it established the Barreiros Camp, which was officially opened on June 26th, 1927, in a game where that club came face to face with Vitória Futebol Club (Setúbal) and ended in a goalless draw.

Due to unbearable financial complications for the club, the Funchal General Council acquired the camp in 1939 and, after a long process of reformulation and expropriation, proceeded to build the Barreiros Stadium in 1953. The stadium has already belonged to the three largest Madeiran football clubs, namely and in order of founding, Club Sport Marítimo (founded on September 20th, 1910), Clube Desportivo Nacional (founded on December 8th, 1910, at the time under the designation Nacional Sport Group) and Clube de Futebol União (founded on November 11th, 1913, then with the name União Futebol Clube), until the Regional Government donated it to Club Sport Marítimo in 2009. In that year, new renovation works began, with new benches, covers and features being added, which was completed in 2016. On December 2nd of that year, in the inaugural game of the renowned Estádio do Marítimo, the home team received and won 2-1, the then champion, Sport Lisboa e Benfica.

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Credits: Madeira Photography Museum - Atelier Vicente's.

PERESTRELLOS PHOTOGRAPHOS – Construction of the Barreiros Stadium, Parish of São Martinho, Municipality of Funchal | Between 1953 and 1957

17.8 x 23.9 cm | Simple glass negative | Gelatin-silver print

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