Estadio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre Capacity: 48,849 Will host: Five games, among them a Round-of-16 tie Located on the picturesque banks of the River Guaiba, it is the largest football ground in the south of Brazil and nicknamed the ‘Gigante do Beira-Rio’ (The Giant of Beira-Rio). Opened in 1969, it took nearly a decade to build, with fans donating bricks, cement and iron.