Roma Get Final Green Light for New Stadium Project

Roma have cleared all the hurdles in the administrative process to build a new stadium in the Pietralata area, a process that began years ago. The project has been approved by the services’ conference, which is composed of a mix of local authorities, on Tuesday, La Repubblica reports.

The final meeting, which granted the definitive authorization, took place at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. It greenlit the last tweaks and the overall technical and economic feasibility of the whole plan. The operational phase can now commence.

Roma will soon present the executive project and will break ground in the spring. The goal is to complete construction by 2030, well in time for the arena to be one of the locations for Euro 2032, which will take place in Italy and Turkey. The final deadline will fall about a year in advance.

The Giallorossi will keep playing at the Olimpico until their new home is ready. It’ll be erected in a different part of the city, with all that entails from an urban planning standpoint. It’ll have 60k seats, with about a third just in the new Curva Sud, styled after Borussia Dortmund’s Die Gelbe Wand.

The blueprints also envisage a large new park, a club museum and store. According to QuiFinanza, the new Roma stadium will cost around €600M on its own, while the price for the entire project is set at €1.37B. It’ll be entirely financed by the Friedkin family and its partners, through their own capital, a construction loan, a project bond and a VAT facility.