Estádio José Pinheiro Borda, better known as Estádio Beira-Rio, or Gigante da Beira-Rio or simply Beira-Rio, due to its location beside the Guaíba River, is a football stadium in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It serves as the home stadium for Sport Club Internacional, replacing their previous stadium, the Estádio dos Eucaliptos. It is named after José Pinheiro Borda (1897–1965), an elderly Portuguese engineer who supervised the building of the stadium but died before seeing its completion.
Estádio Beira-Rio
Land fill for the Beira-Rio construction
Construction of Beira-Rio in the Guaíba Lake in the 1960s
Aerial view of the Beira-Rio stadium in the 1960s.
Sport Club Internacional, commonly known as Internacional, Inter de Porto Alegre or simply Inter, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre. They play in the Série A, the first division of the Brazilian league, as well as in Campeonato Gaúcho Série A, the first level of the Rio Grande do Sul state football league. The team's home stadium, known as Estádio Beira-Rio ("Riverside"), was one of the twelve 2014 FIFA World Cup venues and has a capacity of 50,128.
Henrique Poppe, founder of the club.
1919 squad
1942 state champions.
Construction of Beira-Rio in the Guaíba Lake in the 1960s