San Siro will be demolished and a completely new one will be built on the surrounding land: ‘La Cattedrale’
It will have a capacity for about 65 thousand spectators and its inauguration is scheduled for the 2027-28 season.
Inter, AC Milan and the city council of the Milanese municipality will meet this Wednesday to define the final details of the construction project for ‘La Cattedrale’, a new stadium for both teams; project that is reaching the last bureaucratic phases prior to the commissioning of works that are expected to begin in 2024 and end in 2027.
The tedious path of the two Milanese teams to have a new stadium is coming to an end. After three years of paperwork to get a modern stadium and in which Milan even considered undertaking a different stadium project on its own due to the slowness of the process, tomorrow it will take place at the Palacio Marino – the civil headquarters of the municipal administration of Milan – the public debate between the teams and municipal bodies to present and refine the details of the new stadium project.
A project that, according to the ‘Gazzetta dello Sport’, will not be based on a remodeling of the mythical San Siro, but on its demolition and the construction of a completely new one on the surrounding land: ‘La Cattedrale’.
During the months of August and September, meetings were held between public bodies and team representatives at the Palacio Marino to delve into the technical aspects of the new ‘home’ of the transalpine teams, but it will be at the important meeting on Wednesday at the that the reasons why it has been decided to build a new stadium be explained; as well as the economic and environmental sustainability of the project.
After the meeting, both sports entities and the municipality of Milan will have a period of two months to confirm the project. From that moment, with the approval of all parties, the construction process will begin, which, in principle, will begin in 2024.
Inter and Milan will have their new fort ready, with a capacity for 60/65 thousand spectators, for the 2027-28 season, but San Siro will not be demolished until at least the end of 2026, since it will host the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo.
In the place that San Siro currently occupies, it is planned that a park and a commercial area will be built.