Flamengo stadium: latest on building the Rubro-Negro home | OneFootball

Flamengo president Bap assured that the stadium project has not been abandoned

A target of political disputes at Flamengo in recent times, the construction of the stadium on the Gasômetro site remains on the radar. This week, the Rubro-Negro president, Luiz Eduardo Baptista, gave updates on the situation of Mengão’s future home. The club chief guaranteed that the project has not been abandoned.

— It’s possible that at some point in time we’ll be in a better position to move this dream forward. Right now, I feel absolutely comfortable at the Maracanã. Flamengo plays at home in every stadium it goes to. Aside from two or three places where we go to play, against Corinthians in São Paulo, or maybe another big club, Flamengo feels at home everywhere. So this is not an abandoned project, as you said —, Bap said in an interview with ‘Barbacast’.

— There are, yes, problems, as we said at the time of the election, while the other side said there were no problems at all, and there are. There were some issues that we said existed. We work on this constantly and consistently here. Now, we have challenges there, for example, Naturgy’s, that gas station there, which supplies 400,000 residents of Rio. As long as they don’t leave, and that is a city government issue, we can’t touch that. There are active gas pipelines underneath. And after they remove it, specialists say there still have to be another two years of decontamination —, he added.

HOW MUCH WILL FLAMENGO SPEND ON THE STADIUM?

The Rodolfo Landim administration, responsible for purchasing the Gasômetro site, expected to invest less than R$ 2 billion in building the stadium. However, Bap’s team took over the club in 2025, carried out new studies, and believes it will take nearly R$ 3 billion for the Rubro-Negro home to be completed.

In addition, Landim had promised the stadium would be delivered by 2029. However, Bap considers that timeline unfeasible and, if he is able to move forward with talks about the arena, believes the venue will be ready in 2036, with the possibility of that period being extended.

— So, even if I had the R$ 3 billion to build the stadium today, I couldn’t do it, because there would be this concrete and real obstacle. Is that why we’re not doing it now? That’s not true. But there are a series of variables over which Flamengo does not necessarily have control. But has it been abandoned at Flamengo? No, it has not been abandoned in any way —, he concluded.

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