When the club broke ties with the
Central Argentine Railway, the British company took back the land where Rosario Central had its
Parada Castellanos field. As a result, the club had to search a place where to build a new stadium. Meanwhile, the team played their home venues at Club Bolsa de Comercio. By the end of 1925, the Municipality granted Rosario Central concession of a land in the
Arroyito neighborhood for a term of 20 years. The land was placed on Génova and Cordiviola streets, and the club built its new stadium there. The first match at the stadium in Arroyito was a
Copa Nicasio Vila (the main football competition in Rosario) match against arch-rival
Newell's Old Boys, on November 14, 1926. In December 1927, the Municipality of Rosario set a term of 20 years for the concession. During that year, the club built a concrete grandstand with capacity for 7,000, increasing its total capacity to 36,000. The refurbished and complete stadium was inaugurated in October 1927, when Rosario Central played a friendly vs Uruguayan club
Peñarol. The old official grandstand was refurbished in 1939 and definitely replaced in 1948. Nowadays, the lower seats are placed there. The EAM built the upper grandstands and lower seats of the
Gigante, but costs had to be incurred by the club. Subsequent depreciations of local currencies, resulted in much higher final costs than original estimations. In
1987, the stadium was one of the
Copa América venues, hosting all the group C (Paraguay, Bolivia and Colombia) matches. In September 2009, the
Gigante hosted one
2010 World Cup qualification match, when
Brazil beat Argentina 3–1. The Gigante stadium had been proposed as venue by request of then Argentina manager
Diego Maradona (and then approved by
FIFA). The stadium also hosted two
The Rugby Championship matches played by
Argentina, in
2012 and
2013. Rosario Central launched a renovation campaign after the 2023 season, and completely renewed the 1978-dated lighting system, lowered the pitch level, and added additional spaces for spectators, increasing it to 46,955. In 2024, their home matches drew an average attendance of 41,006. == Sporting events ==