Stadio Is Arenas
- Games of Cagliari Calcio (since 2012)
The Stadio Is Arenas is the football stadium of the Italian community Quartu Sant Elena, Province of Cagliari in Sardinia. For the 2012/13 season the sports venue for the first division club Cagliari Calcio was rebuilt.
Cagliari Calcio
After months of negotiations with the city of Cagliari decided in May 2012, the President of Cagliari Massimo Cellino that the Rossoblu for safety and comfort reasons in the 2012/13 season at the Stadio Sant'Elia not play anymore. From the 31st matchday of the 2011/12 season wore Cagliari from the home games against Inter Milan, Catania, Chievo Verona and Juventus at the Stadio Nereo Rocco Trieste.
For some time, the club is planning to build a self-financed stadium named Karalis Arena. As the site was selected in a plot near the airport Cagliari. However, this led to clashes with the aviation authority ENAC. On 16 May 2012, agreed the community Quartu Sant Elena and the football club is on the reconstruction of the Stadio Is Arenas as a venue of Cagliari Calcio for at least three years until clarity on the stadium site. For this purpose, the ramshackle stadium was demolished with career and transformed into a football stadium made of steel scaffolding grandstands ( a covered grandstand and three ranks in the open air ). The reopening took place in September 2012. In addition, built around the stadium 2,500 parking spaces.
Start of the season 2012/13, the city council had no audience for the first game against Atalanta, because it did not meet the safety requirements of the first division for their opinion. For the second home game on matchday against AS Roma on September 23, 2012, came to a head. The police chief of Cagliari, Giuseppe Balsamo, and the President of Cagliari Calcio, Massimo Cellino, arguing about the safety and stability of the steel tube stands. In the opinion of Balsamo likely to be admitted to the game against AS Roma no spectators.
The President of the Rossoblu, the fans Nevertheless invited on the homepage of the club, despite a ban on the game a. Then said the city administration Cagliari the game for fear of riots unceremoniously after a night session. The sports court of the Italian Association decided on the day that the canceled game be scored 3-0 for AS Roma.
After a thorough review of the stadium, with regard to safety defects that would violate the provisions of the Series A, issued by the Italian Observatory on Sports Events on September 26, 2012, the permit spectators in the Stadio Is Arenas allow. Thus, it could be held against Delfino Pescara 1936 before an audience the next home game on September 30.
After renewed safety concerns Cagliari Calcio had to move to FC Parma for their last league match on 21 December 2012 against Juventus in the Stadio Ennio Tardini.
Gallery
The Grandstand
The opposite stand