New Zenit Stadium

Arena for FC Zenit
Location	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Coordinates	59°58′22.63″N 30°13′13.92″E / 59.9729528°N 30.2205333°E / 59.9729528; 30.2205333Coordinates: 59°58′22.63″N 30°13′13.92″E / 59.9729528°N 30.2205333°E / 59.9729528; 30.2205333
Opened	2015
Surface	Grass
Capacity	69,000
Tenants
FC Zenit St. Petersburg

Arena for FC Zenit (Russian: Футбольный стадион в западной части Крестовского острова literally translated as The football stadium in the western part of Krestovsky Island) - is a stadium in Saint Petersburg, which is currently under construction.^[1] It will host the home matches of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. The stadium was planned to be completed by December 2008,^[2] which was changed to late 2011.^[3] It is now proposed that the stadium will open in 2015.^[4] The stadium will have a capacity of 62,000 people.^[5]

The name of the future stadium has not been decided yet. At this moment its official name is "Footbolniy stadion v zapadnoy chasti Krestovskogo ostrova", and is commonly referred to in English as the New Zenit Stadium.

The competition between architectural project was won by Kisho Kurokawa's "The Spaceship". The design of the stadium is a modified and enlarged version of Toyota Stadium in Toyota City, Japan, which was also designed by Kurokawa. The stadium is being built on the location where the former Kirov Stadium used to stand before it was demolished.

In January 2009 the The St. Petersburg Times reported that the project was now to be funded by the city government of St Petersburg, with Gazprom switching to build a separate skyscraper project. City Hall had to step in after Gazprom declined to invest any further money into the stadium's construction.^[6]

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References

External links

• Stadium thread at www.skyscrapercity.com
• Live webcam of stadium construction at http://ingtransstroy.ru
• Updated renders of the stadium after project adjustment
• (English) Section about the stadium on the official website of Zenit

v t e Sports venue and auditoriums in St. Petersburg Object · Capacity · Year Open-air recreation areas Petrovsky Stadium · 21,600 · 1924 (1933, 1961, 1980 - reconstruction) • Dinamo Stadium · 500 (max12,000) · 1929 • Kirov Stadium · 84,000 · 1950-2006 • Petrovsky Stadium, small area · 2,600 · 1994 • New Zenit Stadium · 60,000 · 2011 (planned) Roofed sport and concert areas Yubileyny Sports Palace · 7,000 · 1967 • Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex · 25,000 · 1980 • Ice Palace · 12,300 · 1999 Сoncert halls Oktyabrskiy Big Concert Hall · 3,800 · 1967 • Mariinsky Theatre, Concert Hall · 1,100 · 2006