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Tuesday 22nd November 2022
German side Union Berlin are to start redevelopment work on their Stadion An der Alten Forsterei early in 2023.
The Bundesliga side plan to increase the capacity from 22,000 to 37,500.
The cost of the project is around €150m, which will take more than 2 years to complete. Union will be forced to play away from the stadium and will spend the 2024/2025 season playing at the Olympiastadion - home to city rivals Hertha Berlin.
Monday 14th November 2022
Argentinos Juniors have revealed plans to modernise the Estadio Diego Armando Maradona.
The Argentinian club are looking to completely moderise the stadium, building a new 3-tiered stand behind one of the goals, and covering all stands around the pitch with a roof.
The stadium is named after the football legend who made his debut at the stadium back in 1976.
Work is expected to take around 2 years. Once complete, the stadium’s capacity will increase from the current 22,000 to around 30,000.
Friday 11th November 2022
Italian Serie D club Casertana have announced plans to build a new 12,000 seater stadium.
The capacity will be expandable up to a maximum capacity of 16,000 after a project which will take 3 years to complete and cost around €50m.
Founded back in 1908, Casertana has never played in Serie A, having only managed 2 seasons in Serie B in their 114 year history.
The town of Casertana is approximately 45 minutes north of Naples.
Friday 11th November 2022
French side Nimes have played their last game at the Stade des Costieres.
The stadium will now be demolished, with a new 15,000 capacity ground built in its place. The new ground is scheduled to open in 2026.
The Ligue 2 side will play the next 3 and a half years at the 8,000 capacity Stade des Antonins.
The team's final game at their old ground was a 1-0 victory over Girondins de Bordeaux.
Friday 11th November 2022
Argentinian side Newell’s Old Boys have presented plans to redevelop the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa.
The ground will be remodelled over the next 4 years into a fully enclosed bowl with a capacity of 65,000.
The club has been playing at the ground since 1911, with the last major upgrade taking place 25 years ago. That set the capacity to 42,000.
As well as the large increase in capacity, the work will also install 2 new large TV screens and newer educative boxes.
Bienvenidos al futuro
— Newell’s Old Boys (@Newells) November 4, 2022
En el corazón de la ciudad! pic.twitter.com/Sff52HjTsY
Saturday 29th October 2022
Farul Constanta have announced plans to build a new stadium, named after Romanian legend Georgie Hagi.
The Liga I club will build a new 18,000 capacity ground at a cost of around £85m. The stadium will be built to UEFA Category 4 specifications and also incorporate a separate 1,000 seater training stadium.
The club has been playing home matches this season at the 4,500 capacity Stadionul Viitorul after their traditional home ground fell into a state of disrepair.
Thursday 27th October 2022
The city of Milwaukee has been awarded a USL franchise.
The team will join the equivalent of the second division in the United States in 2025, playing at a brand new 8,000 seater stadium.
The stadium will be part of a larger development which will also include a 3,500 capacity indoor arena and 140 residential units as well as a hotel and retail dining outlets.
The area will also host soccer and lacrosse teams from the University of Milwaukee. Construction should begin before the end of 2022.
Sunday 23rd October 2022
The city of Kyiv has opened a brand new football stadium, despite the Russian invasion.
3rd tier Ukrainian side Livyi Bereh Kyiv’s new 4,7000 capacity stadium has been built to a standard which will allow it to host the nation’s youth and women’s team internationals in the future.
Livyi Bereh haven’t started playing again since the invasion, but are planning to do so from the start of the 2023/2024 season.
Tuesday 11th October 2022
Polish side Pogon Szczecin have completed renovation on the Stadion Miejski.
The Ekstrakasse side fully opened the stadium with a 2-1 victory over Lechia Gdansk.
The £65m project took 3 years to complete and saw the capacity drop from 18,000 to just 4,000 as the team continued to play there.
The modernisation has brought the standards up in and around the ground, with a capacity now in excess of 20,500.
Tuesday 11th October 2022
Greek giants AEK Athens have opened their new 32,000 OPAP Arena.
The stadium is built on the site of the club’s former home, Nikos Goumas Stadium which hosted AEK matches from 1925 through to 2003.
The Greek Super League side’s new home took just over 5 years to build, costing around €100m.
Tuesday 11th October 2022
Birmingham City have used the World Cup break to restart repair work to St Andrew’s.
The Championship club has been forced to close large areas of the stadium for more than two years due to structural faults. This has reduced the capacity down from 29,500 to around 19,000.
Part of the strengthening work will be completed during the World Cup, with the last part done after the end of this season. If all goes to plan, St Andrew’s will re-open at full capacity at the start of the 2023-2024 season.
Monday 10th October 2022
Stockport County have revealed plans to redevelop Edgeley Park into a 20,000 capacity stadium.
The League Two club have started the first phase of a public consultation programme after agreeing a new 250-year lease for the ground earlier this year.
The plans include totally rebuilding the East and South stands to provide modern facilities and bring the roofline level with the existing West stand. The final phase would be to extend the North stand to cover the full length of the pitch.
The plans are part of County's desire to be playing Championship football within the next 7 years.
The club aim to apply for planning permission by the end of the year, with work on the East stand potentially starting as early as next summer.