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Friday 18th December 2020
France have confirmed the 7 venues which will be used for football at the 2024 summer Olympic Games.
The stadiums have been confirmed as:
Toulouse had also bid for the right to hold matches, but was rejected due to cost-cutting measures from the organisers. Lille's Stade Pierre-Mauroy also misses out, hosting handball matches instead of football.
The final will be held at PSG's Parc des Princes with no matches played at the Stade de France due to the various athletics events.
Sunday 6th December 2020
Boston United have opened their new stadium. The Boston Community Stadium is only half finished, but has been allowed to host the club's home games in the National League North.
The new ground opened without fans in attendance with a 2-0 defeat to Chorley.
Once complete, the stadium will hold 5,000 fans and form the centrepiece of the region's Quadrant Project which will also see new homes and leashes facilities built.
The Boston Community Stadium replaces York Street as the club's home, after their lease there expired at the end of last season. The club had played their first home matches of the season at Gainsborough Trinity's Northolme.
Saturday 5th December 2020
Swiss side Lausanne-Sport have officially opened their new stadium, known as Stade de la Tuiliere.
The new stadium has taken 3 years to build and has cost around £65m. The ground features a safe standing section giving it a capacity of 12,544, which reduces to 12,000 in all-seater mode.
The first game saw Lausanne-Sport go down to a 3-0 defeat to BSC Young Boys.
A short video of the new stadium can be seen on Twitter:
Yesterday @lausanne_sport played their first competitive match at their new home, le Stade de la Tuiliere.
— INEOS (@INEOS) November 30, 2020
A modern, welcoming stadium for everyone to enjoy and a new home to support the club's ambitions in the Swiss Super League.#AllezLausanne pic.twitter.com/wpEwzDcyUA
Friday 4th December 2020
St Louis City SC have revealed new designs of its forthcoming "open air" stadium. The new artwork reveals the lack of a back wall on any of the 4 stands, allowing it to "integrate into the surrounding urban environment".
St Louis will join the MLS with Sacramento Republic in 2023, taking the total number of teams to 30, with rumours of another two being able to join later this decade.
The new 22,500 capacity stadium is already under construction and is due to open for St Louis' debut MLS season.
Friday 4th December 2020
Albania will host the first ever final of the new Europa Conference League which kicks off next season. The new competition will sit below the Champions League and Europa League to become Eurorpe's 3rd tier continental club competition.
The 2022 final will be hosted at the new Air Albania stadium which was opened last year. The 22,000 capacity stadium will stage the game at the end of May with the winners guaranteed a place in the following season's Europa League. It is the first time Albania has hosted a major football final, but the size of the stadium is already drawing concerns from supporters groups, with very few tickets expected for fans of the teams involved.
UEFA has also announced that next year's Nations League final will be held in Italy. The semi-finals will take place at Juventus' Allianz Stadium with the final to be played at the San Siro in Milan.
Tuesday 24th November 2020
Greek giants Panathinaikos have revealed their plans to build a new 40,000 capacity stadium in Athens.
The new £150m project also includes homes for Panathinaikos' other sports teams, including a 12,500 seat basketball arena, 1,500 seat volleyball arena and an Olympic size swimming pool.
The Greek Super League side will spend £65m on the football stadium, which they hope to start construction on in late 2021. The stadium is expected to take around 2 and a half years to build, meaning they could move in for the start of the 2024/2025 season. As well as being Panathinaikos' home, the stadium could also host some matches for the Greek national team.
Panathinaikos currently play their games at the Athens Olympic Stadium which they co-inhabit with rivals AEK Athens.
Once complete, the new stadium will just make it onto our list of the biggest football stadiums in Europe and will be included on the next version of the European Football Stadium poster.
Tuesday 17th November 2020
Italian side Spezia are to increase the size of their Stadio Alberto Picco to 16,000. Plans include demolishing the main grandstand, replacing it with a new 5,500 seater stand as well as upgrading the stands behind each goal.
The Serie A outfit are playing their first season in the Italian top flight and have been forced to play their first home games of the season at Cesena's Stadio Dino Manuzzi whilst first phase to modernise ground is completed.
The club are due to host their first home game in La Spezia in December as VAR equipment is installed.
Friday 13th November 2020
A new 55,000 capacity stadium is to be built in the Colombian city of Barranquila.
The new stadium will be known as the Arena Del Rio and will cost over £300m. It will feature a retractable grass pitch and will be the first stadium in Latin America to include a closable roof.
Once complete, the stadium could become the new home of the Colombian national team as well as local Primera A side Junior de Barranquilla.
The city of Barranquilla is located around 500 miles north of the capital Bogota. The new stadium will be the jewel in the crown of a larger complex which will also include 3 auditoriums, a swimming pool, 5 star, hotel, 100 apartments, bars, restaurants and a small marina.
Thursday 5th November 2020
AFC Wimbledon have returned to their spiritual home at Plough Lane.
The League One side opened the gates to their new home with a 2-2 draw against Doncaster Rovers. The match was Wimbledon's first game in the London borough of Merton since the old Plough Lane was forced to close in 1991.
The new stadium is located around 200 yards away from the old Plough Lane, on the site of their old Wimbledon greyhound stadium.
The ground cost £32m to build and has an initial capacity of 9,300. This can be expanded up to 20,000, should demand require.
Saturday 31st October 2020
Nashville SC has released more designs for their upcoming new stadium.
The MLS Eastern Conference side are building the largest soccer specific stadium in the US with a capacity of 30,000.
The new ground is expected to cost around $335m and will be located close to downtown Nashville. It is planned to be completed in time for the start of the 2022 MLS season.
Nashville are currently competing in their debut season in MLS and finished a respectable 8th in the table, qualifying for the post season play-offs.
Thursday 29th October 2020
A new 20,000 seater stadium has opened in the Georgian town of Batumi.
The new stadium has been built to UEFA category 4 standards, meaning it will be able to host international matches and games in the Champions League and Europa League, if required.
The new ground will be home to FC Dinamo Batumi who play in the Georgian top tier, Erovnuli Liga.
The £35m stadium is located close to the centre of the city, on the Black Sea, approximately 230 miles from the capital Tbilisi.
Batumi stadium becomes the 3rd largest in Georgia, just over a third the size of Dinamo Arena.
Thursday 22nd October 2020
Argentinian side Racing Club de Avellaneda is to start a series of modernisation works to their Estadio Juan Domingo Peron.
The Argentine Primera Division side will invest £15m over the next 4 years to bring the ground up to FIFA standards, allowing it to host international matches.
The improvements will be done in phases starting in 2021 with new changing rooms. The club will then move onto improving the facilities for disabled supporters before laying a new pitch and then improving the stadium facade in 2025.
Also known as El Cilindro, the stadium has been open since 1950 and currently seats 61,000 fans.
A video of the proposed renovations can be seen here: