New Zenit Stadium

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Zenit St. Petersburg

• FIFA Confederations Cup 2017
• Football World Cup 2018

The Gazprom - Arena is a football stadium under construction in St. Petersburg, Russia. It will accommodate approximately 62,000 spectators and is formed on the basis of the Kirov stadium, which was demolished in 2006 to make room for new construction.

Construction work

The end of 2004, the City Council of St. Petersburg approved a new stadium. In August 2006, a jury selected the design by the Japanese architect Kisho Kirokawa. The draft Kirokawas provides a pure football stadium for 62 167 spectators, which will have a closable roof and a retractable grass, similar to the Veltins- Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Construction began in April 2007, which is planned for 2010 Completion was delayed due to difficulties with the ground and exploding construction costs of a new total of around 930 million euros more than once to the rear; the inauguration is now 2017Vorlage in: Future / take place in 3 years, in time for the Football World Cup 2018 On the homepage of the club of the progress can be followed with two webcams..

Stadium name

In July 2009, the Sports Committee of St. Petersburg citizens called on to make suggestions for the name of the new stadium. According to the online newspaper Petersburg.ru the choice fell on Gazprom - Arena. For the Gazprom - Arena is also the well-known sports journalist Gennady Orlov Petersburg speaks out. Compared to the Kommersant newspaper, he said the name was only too logical: " The name can be a kind of guarantee that Gazprom will continue to support and invest in the Zenit Russian football. "