Coluna do Fla
·18 May 2026
Cash cow! Arena da Baixada sets record for Flamengo v Athletico-PR

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·18 May 2026

“When Flamengo plays, the house is full,” says the lyric by Sandra de Sá, which describes Sunday’s match (17). That is because the Arena da Baixada set its financial record for this year. The stadium brought in R$ 2,625,020.00 in the 16th round of the Brasileirão.
Of the 34,197 in attendance, 33,549 were paying fans. Therefore, the match came close to the maximum capacity, which is 42,372 people. Fla, however, drew 1-1 with the home side in Curitiba.
The match involving the Rio club had nearly three thousand more people in attendance than the previous mark. That is because Athletico’s 2-0 win over Coritiba, in the Brasileirão, had 31,376 paying fans and 31,885 people in attendance.
In front of more than 30 thousand fans, Mendoza opened the scoring in the first half with a low cross-shot that got past Rossi. In the second half, however, Fla equalized through the pace of Bruno Henrique, who set up Pedro to find the net.
Back in Rio de Janeiro, Flamengo host Estudiantes (ARG) at the Maracanã on Wednesday (20). The ball starts rolling at 9:30 p.m. (Brasília time) in the fifth round of Group A of the Libertadores.
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