The City of Lanús â Néstor DÃÂaz Pérez Stadium (, ) is an association football stadium in Lanús, Argentina. Located in Lanús Este district, it is the home of Lanús.
Built in 1929, the stadium holds 45,319 people. It is named after Néstor DÃÂaz Pérez, former president of the club under whose mandate the stadium was built. Popularly, it is known as La Fortaleza (The Fortress).
Club Lanús' first stadium was located on Wield and Deheza streets, north side from the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway tracks. The team was promoted to Primera División in 1919, debuting in 1920 v Sportivo Almagro in the old venue. In 1929, the club built a new stadium on Inocencio Arias (nowadays, Héctor Guidi) and General Acha streets, 650 mts from the former venue.
The stadium was inaugurated on February 24, 1929. One year after, the club expanded the capacity of the venue, building new grandstands, to 30,000 spectators. Lanús' international games at its own stadium also included matches of Copa Sudamericana.
In September 2010, the club started construction on a roof for the local stand, which has since been completed. Several other works were completed in 2014, these additions consisting in a new changing rooms, a press conference room, an official club shop, a highly competitive gym, a café for club members and a secondary school behind the stadium.