Inter and Milan: Key dates behind their new stadium and San Siro’s future | OneFootball

The issue around the San Siro has once again dominated headlines in Serie A.

The City Council of Milan is now expected to approve the resolution to sell the historic stadium to the clubs. Once that is done, some key questions will arise and La Gazzetta dello Sport take a deeper look.

Luca Bianchin reports that the sale to Inter and Milan must be finalized by November 10th, the date by which the deed of sale must be completed. The next 40 days, in short, will be needed to obtain the green light from the banks and complete the deed of sale.

If the San Siro is publicly owned by that date, it can no longer be demolished.

Inter and Milan will anyway play their games at the venue next season, as it will also host the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in February 2026. Elsewhere, two developments will need to be monitored. Manica and Foster+Partners, the two world-renowned architectural firms chosen by Inter Milan and AC Milan, will develop the design for the new stadium.

These are the months in which the shape, features, and specifications of the new 71,500-seat facility will be decided. The project will then need to be approved by a conference of experts, involving the City, the Region, the Regional Environmental Protection Agency, and other entities. This will not be a trivial process.

Parties who want to continue to have San Siro as Milan’s home of football, will file appeals in the same period. Numerous appeals are expected, and they are set to begin immediately and things will then move to court.

Work on the new stadium, to be built in the parking lot of the current Meazza, is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2027. The original San Siro will continue to host games when the new stadium alongside it will be built.

When can Inter and Milan play at the new stadium?

A reasonable scenario, according to Inter and Milan’s calculations calls for the new stadium to open in 2031, after four years of construction. For a few months, the city Milan would have two stadiums, one ancient and one modern, staring at each other day and night.

Will the San Siro be demolished?

San Siro will have to be dismantled, and therefore largely demolished, reasonably quickly and within the first 12 months of the new stadium’s construction.

Kaustubh Pandey I GIFN