Roma get green light for new stadium, could host Euro 2032 matches | OneFootball

The project for the new stadium that Roma plans to build starting in 2027 was approved this Friday by the City Council of the Italian capital.

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Of the 44 councilors who voted, 39 were in favor of the “technical and economic feasibility project” presented by the club.

“We are all very pleased, as there is a strong majority in favor of the stadium,” declared the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri.

“Construction could begin in the first half of 2027. Thus, it would be ready to host matches for Euro 2032,” which will be jointly organized by Italy and Turkey, Gualtieri continued.

The project still needs to be approved by several administrative bodies, particularly at the regional level, a bureaucracy often criticized by Serie A clubs and considered an obstacle to the modernization of the country’s stadiums.

Roma shares the Olympic Stadium with its archrival, Lazio, but for several years both clubs have wanted to have their own home.

The ‘giallorosso’ club, controlled by the American Friedkin family, has been working for several months on a stadium project with a capacity for just over 60,000 people in the Pietralata neighborhood, in the northeast of the Italian capital, with a total estimated cost of 1 billion euros (R$ 6 billion at the current exchange rate).

Lazio, in turn, wants to renovate the Flaminio Stadium, abandoned since the Italian rugby team stopped playing its Six Nations Tournament matches there.

“We are working with the same diligence on this project,” said the mayor of Rome.

Infrastructure is a topic that generates tension ahead of Euro 2032. In May last year, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin described the state of Italian stadiums as “shameful.”

*With content from AFP

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