Stadium under construction, 13 November  2014

New Zenit Stadium

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New Zenit Stadium

LocationRussia Saint Petersburg, Russia

Coordinates59°58′22.63″N 30°13′13.92″ECoordinates: 59°58′22.63″N 30°13′13.92″E

Capacity66,881

SurfaceGrass

Construction

Broke ground2007

Opened2016 (planned)

Construction cost$1.1 billion

Tenants

FC Zenit St. Petersburg

2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

2018 FIFA World Cup

UEFA Euro 2020

The New Zenit Stadium (among proposed names are Zenit Arena or Gazprom Arena, Russian: Зенит Арена или Газпром Арена) is a football stadium in western portion of Krestovsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which is currently under construction. It will host the home matches of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. The stadium was planned to be completed by December 2008, which was changed to late 2011. It is now proposed that the stadium will open in 2016. The stadium will have a capacity of 66,881 people.

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 "Football stadium in the western part of Krestovsky Island", 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.

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