San Siro to be demolished and rebuilt.

The shared home of Inter Milan and AC Milan, constructed a quarter of a century later than Hillsborough (and last renovated only a decade ago), the San Siro Stadium is going to be flattened and rebuilt.

I guess it's called "progress" (God forbid!)

Gutting. Visited for the Derby di Milano and it's stayed with me forever as one of the greatest football memories I've ever had. Won't be the same without it. 

Its Italy. I'll believe it when i see it.

When I visited the stadium in 2019 it did look old and dated. For the Milan teams to compete at the very top of european football they are going to need bigger and better.

Wonder where they'll both play whilst it's being rebuilt.  If there isn't another large stadium near Milan presumably they'd each have to share a different ground as they couldn't both groundshare with, e.g. Juventus. Maybe one plays at Juventus and one at Torino.  Even that's a good 2 hours away from Milan, not good for the fans.  Como would probably be the closest pro club but that only holds about 12k

One of the best stadiums I've ever watched football in for atmosphere. Be a shame to see it go.

8 hours ago, owls89 said:

Its Italy. I'll believe it when i see it.

Yeah, look at the last stadium in Rome they knocked down to rebuild

22 minutes ago, Chilli said:

 

Yeah, look at the last stadium in Rome they knocked down to rebuild

They built some amazing stadiums for the AD90 World Cup

5 hours ago, alanharper said:

Wonder where they'll both play whilst it's being rebuilt.  If there isn't another large stadium near Milan presumably they'd each have to share a different ground as they couldn't both groundshare with, e.g. Juventus. Maybe one plays at Juventus and one at Torino.  Even that's a good 2 hours away from Milan, not good for the fans.  Como would probably be the closest pro club but that only holds about 12k

Atalanta are fairly near to Milan I think?

20 minutes ago, Beighton Owl 87 said:

Atalanta are fairly near to Milan I think?

Didn't even know that! Their ground only holds 25k though, and they couldn't feasibly share with both Milan clubs, it'd mean there being 2 games in a weekend every other week. Not sure they've thought this through, at least when Spurs and Barcelona have been forced to temporarily relocate there's been a spare decent sized stadium in the same city. 

Quick Googling of the demolition - not likely til 2031, and the new ground would be built elsewhere and ready to move into by that time.

Think the area that the San Siro is currently occupying is earmarked for "regeneration."

52 minutes ago, aussieowl87 said:

Quick Googling of the demolition - not likely til 2031, and the new ground would be built elsewhere and ready to move into by that time.

 

Think the area that the San Siro is currently occupying is earmarked for "regeneration."

The new stadium is being built on the same site, right next to where the current one is, and will retain a small part of the current ground as a heritage site.  It's expected to be ready for the Euros in summer 2032, so they're not going to only start demolishing the current ground in 2031. 

3 hours ago, alanharper said:

 

The new stadium is being built on the same site, right next to where the current one is, and will retain a small part of the current ground as a heritage site.  It's expected to be ready for the Euros in summer 2032, so they're not going to only start demolishing the current ground in 2031. 

Thank you for being more knowledgeable about it than me.

10 hours ago, aussieowl87 said:

Quick Googling of the demolition - not likely til 2031, and the new ground would be built elsewhere and ready to move into by that time.

 

Think the area that the San Siro is currently occupying is earmarked for "regeneration."

Only been once for a couple of hours but the san siro area looked quite run down after visiting the stadium  i went to have a look around the fashion area 2 completely different worlds only a short tube journey apart

Went a few years ago.

Showing its age a bit, but still impressive.

The club museum I went in though was a dump. A two floor porter cabin with a broken toilet.