Estadio El Gigante del Norte is a football stadium located in the city of Salta in the homonymous province of Argentina.

[7] The Argentina national team (with superstar Diego Maradona) played a friendly vs Morocco (won 3–1) at El Gigante in 1994, as part of their preparation for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

[8][4] At first, football was one of the multiple activities practised there, but its continuous growth caused the club decided to build a stadium, about 20 years after Gimnasia y Tiro's foundation.

When the club moved to José Amalfitani Stadium in 1943, one of the members of Vélez Sarsfield executive committee, Raùl D'Onofrio (father of then president of River Plate Rodolfo D'Onofrio),[9] came up with the idea of bring the lighting system used in baseball stadiums in the US that had impressed him.

That technological advance allowed the club to host several events at nights, not only football matches but music concerts (from Argentine folclore to rock), and even doma festivals at El Gigante.