Estadio George Capwell

Estadio Banco del Pacífico Capwell is a multi-purpose stadium in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Emelec. It was announced right after Emelec won the 2013 Ecuador Serie A title that Stadium George Capwell would be completely remodeled to hold a capacity of 40,000 fans. The remodeling is supposed to begin in June 2014 and ended in December 2016.In their first league season (Primera Etapa 2017) season at the expanded stadium, Emelec drew an average home attendance of 22,407. It became the highest in the league, followed by Barcelona SC with 10,572.OverviewFounder George Lewis Capwell was born in the United States, he traveled to Ecuador to supervise his electric company “Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador” which can be translated into English as the Ecuadorian Electric Company. While supervising the company Capwell saw that his workers were interested in soccer, therefore he decided to create a soccer team that bear the company’s name, hence the name C.S. EMELEC. The colleagues funded the soccer club in April 28, 1929, Emelec was registered to the Serie C or C league in Ecuador in 1929. In 1940 a stadium was built to honor him.The Stadium and its BeginningsGeorge Capwell Stadium is located to the north of San Martin street, to the south of General Gomez, to the west of Quito street and to the east of Juan Pío Montufar street. It was baptized with the name George Capwell in honor if the soccer club’s president and because he also motorized the construction of the stadium and because he was the founder of the soccer club. George’s idea was for the site not to be a soccer field but a baseball diamond. When popularity grew with soccer in the company and in Guayaquil, in little time the baseball field was converted into a soccer stadium, which it is to this day.