What the clubs announced
AC Milan SpA and FC Internazionale Milano SpA rolled out a joint blueprint to redevelop the San Siro site into a new stadium and mixed-use district. The price tag is about €2.3 billion, and the estimate spans the venue, the broader on-site development, and financing costs.
Under a naming-rights deal with an Italian insurer, the arena will be called Generali Stadium. The clubs shared new imagery of the concept and said most of the existing stadium structure will make way for the project.
Design, capacity and uses
The venue is planned for 71,500 seats and will be outfitted to host concerts and other sports in addition to football. Foster + Partners and Manica Architecture are leading the design, the same pairing behind London's Wembley and Qatar's Lusail, the latter the venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup final.
At a presentation at Milan's Castello Sforzesco, architect David Manica said, "It's more than a building, it's a feeling." Norman Foster added, "It's doing all the things that San Siro did but trying to go one step further." Plans call for a pair of sharply raked stands behind the goals, each sized for around 11,700 fans and angled at 37 degrees, plus a roof that covers every seat.
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Land, development and commercial aims
Around one year earlier, the clubs acquired San Siro and nearby parcels from the city for €197 million ($221 million). The redevelopment footprint is about 280,000 square meters, or roughly 3 million square feet, and the plan layers in plazas, green space, and commercial amenities around the stadium.
Control of the property lets the clubs chase added revenue from hospitality, sponsorships, and events outside football, an effort aimed at closing the commercial gap with Europe's biggest teams.
Timing, ownership and what it means
Both clubs currently host home games at San Siro, which opened in 1926 and earlier this year hosted the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. If regulators give the green light, construction would start in 2028 and the first matches are penciled in for the 2031-32 season. The project is backed by the owners of the two clubs: US based RedBird Capital Partners and Oaktree Capital Management, which sits under Brookfield's Canadian investment umbrella. Planning and authorization steps still need to be completed before ground can break.
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