Otkrytie Arena
Spartak Moscow
- Football World Cup 2018
The Otkrytije Arena (Russian Открытие Арена ) and the Spartak Stadium is a football stadium under construction in the Russian capital Moscow. The stadium is after its completion provide 42,000 spectators and is home stadium of Spartak Moscow.
Prehistory
The Russian giants Spartak Moscow was in contrast to his local rivals never "own " stadium and wore its home games in varying stages of: First, in the square of Lokomotiv Moscow, later in the Dynamo stadium and the Eduard- Strelzow Stadium (home Torpedo Moscow, meanwhile also FK Moscow), since 1956, finally in the Luzhniki Stadium, but the considered as the home stadium of Torpedo Moscow.
Unlike the other Moscow clubs Spartak was sponsored during the Soviet era by any ministry or department of the party, so that could be considered only after the political change in 1991 from realizing plans for the construction of a stadium for its team. First steps in this direction have already been taken in 1994. The association received by the City Council a site near the Botanical Gardens assigned by successful protests from environmentalists and local residents, however, had to be found in another location.
The construction of the stadium was thus still further delayed. Since the plans concretized in the meantime towards a pure football arena, finally, the stadium size was discussed alongside the question of a suitable site. Did first drafts still around 65,000 spaces in front, the management of club and the city government in 2001 finally agreed on an arena concept with 52,000 spectators in a central location. However, this also failed to start because the required by the property owner fair society WWZ lease of 30 million U.S. dollars a year went far beyond the possibilities Spartaks addition.
New building on the outskirts of Moscow
It was not until 2006, with the support of Hauptsponsers Lukoil near the former airfield outside Moscow Tushino found an affordable premises. The new ar.te.plan designed by the architectural firm of Dortmund stadium should be completed by 2009 by German construction group Hochtief. The project provided that the finished stadium should have a restaurant for 2,000 guests and a connected sports and entertainment area with 12,000 seats over the football operation beyond that can be used, eg, for tennis, handball and basketball tournaments and music concerts. This project was rejected due to high construction costs and the current dividend stadium currently under construction was designed by AECOM. Completion had both in the wake of the global economic crisis and because of the delays in obtaining building permits, first to the year 2012 are finally postponed to July 24, 2014. Under the new project, the indoor arena is a single unit that is to be built later. The stadium will hold up to 42,000 spectators.
The new Spartak Stadium is already a fixed part of Russia as one of the venues for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and will be connected in this context to the Moscow transport system.
Name
On February 19, the club announced that the naming rights for the stadium to the bank " Otkrytije " (meaning " Opening" or " discovery " ) for six years for the sum of about 30 million. U.S. dollars were sold ..