Juventus building state of the art stadium - 70 million pounds

[the dude abides]

Juventus Reveal New Stadium Plans

Juventus will unveil the plans for their new stadium this evening in Turin, and it promises to be a special occasion...

The Bianconeri will invest around €100 million in order to have a stadium which will compete with the best around Europe.



The facility will be ultra-modern, secure and open seven days a week with a state of the art shopping complex; the new venue will be built on the site where the old Stadio Delle Alpi is still standing.

Delle Alpi, which was built for the 1990 World Cup, will be demolished and Juve's new arena will be built. Work will begin in spring 2009 and everything will be ready two years later for the beginning of the 2011/12 season.

Plans will be presented at 1800CET at the Gianni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin and the pitch will be just 8.5 metres away from the stands, which is a far cry from their old venue.

Delle Alpi became infamous for its poor views of the action as the stands and pitch were seperated by a useless running track. 500 guests have been invited to the event and Italian FA chief Giancarlo Abete will be present as will Lega Calcio president Antonio Matarrese.

Juve's squad will also attend to enjoy an exclusive preview of their new home. The stadium will hold 40,700 fans and there will be 120 executive boxes. A shopping area as well as parking for 5,300 vehicles.

A Juventus museum is also planned like the one Real Madrid have at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Naming rights have been snapped up by sports marketing company Sportfive and they will be responsible for coming up with a title.

Juve will continue to play at the Olimpico grande while construction work takes place.

[Tes]

Juventus Reveal New Stadium Plans

Juventus will unveil the plans for their new stadium this evening in Turin, and it promises to be a special occasion...

The Bianconeri will invest around €100 million in order to have a stadium which will compete with the best around Europe.



The facility will be ultra-modern, secure and open seven days a week with a state of the art shopping complex; the new venue will be built on the site where the old Stadio Delle Alpi is still standing.

Delle Alpi, which was built for the 1990 World Cup, will be demolished and Juve's new arena will be built. Work will begin in spring 2009 and everything will be ready two years later for the beginning of the 2011/12 season.

Plans will be presented at 1800CET at the Gianni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin and the pitch will be just 8.5 metres away from the stands, which is a far cry from their old venue.

Delle Alpi became infamous for its poor views of the action as the stands and pitch were seperated by a useless running track. 500 guests have been invited to the event and Italian FA chief Giancarlo Abete will be present as will Lega Calcio president Antonio Matarrese.

Juve's squad will also attend to enjoy an exclusive preview of their new home. The stadium will hold 40,700 fans and there will be 120 executive boxes. A shopping area as well as parking for 5,300 vehicles.

A Juventus museum is also planned like the one Real Madrid have at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Naming rights have been snapped up by sports marketing company Sportfive and they will be responsible for coming up with a title.

Juve will continue to play at the Olimpico grande while construction work takes place.

Surely, the €100M is only their part in the project. I'll bet the local authority is waying heavily in with a few € also. The nearestwe'll ever get to a new stadium is an architect's model. Interesting to see how relatively low the capacity will be.

[the dude abides]

also interesting to see that the new pitch will be only just over 8 meters from the fans.

It's gonna make their place a much more intimidating place to go and get a result.

Indeed, this is one of my key concerns re any new stadium we might build.....a large chunk our euro success is built upon the fact that Anfield is such an intimidating place for foreign teams to come and get a result at.  I am not happy messing about with this magical aspect.

[martin]

Only 40,000? doesn't seem like a great move to me.

[Gurdeep]

Only 40,000? doesn't seem like a great move to me.

It may not seem much Martin but that is approximately the number of fans that actually go to Juve's home games.  Juve has had an issue with trying to fill their current stadium with a full house for years.  The problem that they suffer from is the fact that there is no atmosphere in their current home (Stadium is just too big for their home support).  What their actually doing does make sense, smaller stadium, full house, reduce costs and maintain their level of income from the stadium regardless of the smaller size as it'll still be the same number of supporters turning up week in week out for their home games.