Minister for Sport Andrea Abodi assures Italy co-hosting EURO 2032 will assist ‘change the face of Italian soccer’ together with €4.5 billion in personal funding for infrastructure.
Too many Italian stadiums are nonetheless patching up and including to the essential buildings that have been put in place when internet hosting the 1990 World Cup.
epa10911065 The UEFA Euro trophy is pictured after Italy and Turkey have been elected to host the Euro 2032 fooball match in the course of the UEFA EURO 2028 and 2032 hosts announcement ceremony at UEFA Headquarters, in Nyon, Switzerland, 10 October 2023. EPA-EFE/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT
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It’s due to this fact hoped that co-hosting duties with Turkiye for the 2032 European Championship might help set deadlines forcing the authorities to make a real push for contemporary arenas.
As we speak it was confirmed that 13 cities and 16 stadiums are candidates for what is going to finally be 5 Italian cities internet hosting the match, however lots of these – together with two in Rome – are nonetheless on the planning and permission phases.
Abodi assured stadium tasks will flourish
CESENA, ITALY – MAY 24:Andrea Abodi in the course of the Girls Supercup match betweeen AS Roma and ACF Fiorentina at Dino Manuzzi Stadium on Could 24, 2024 in Cesena, Italy. (Photograph by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Pictures)
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“As I’ve mentioned over the past three and a half years, what’s occurring with our stadiums has by no means been seen earlier than within the historical past of our nation,” declared Minister for Sport and Youth Abodi.
“There are 13 cities, 16 tasks, and €4.5 billion in personal funding.”
The Authorities has been working with the FIGC to streamline the usually unimaginable pink tape round getting new stadium tasks constructed, together with the appointment of a selected commissioner for arenas.
ROME, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 21: Basic view exterior the stadium previous to the Serie A match between SS Lazio and AS Roma at Stadio Olimpico on September 21, 2025 in Rome, Italy. (Photograph by Paolo Bruno/Getty Pictures)
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“The target is to succeed in EURO 2032 with stadiums which might be fashionable, welcoming, practical, accessible and sustainable, enhancing the cities that host them,” added Abodi.
“In October, the FIGC will current the ultimate candidates, together with reserves, to UEFA, who will determine which stadiums will host the European spectacle.
“This can change the face of Italian soccer, and the Authorities headed by Giorgia Meloni might be recognised as selling, co-ordinating and contributing, together with others, to the method of epoch-making transformation that Italian soccer wanted.”
ZENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – MARCH 31: (L-R) Italy Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi, President of CONI Luciano Buonfiglio and President of FIGC Gabriele Gravina look on prior the FIFA World Cup 2026 European Qualifiers KO play-offs match between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy at Stadion Bilino Polje on March 31, 2026 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Photograph by Getty Pictures/Getty Pictures)
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Extra particulars are rising on the record of 13 host cities offered, which oddly don’t embody Bergamo and Udine, who had two of probably the most fashionable and well-prepared stadiums already.
The record of 16 stadiums contains three candidates in Rome, regardless that proper now solely a kind of arenas exist and the opposite two do not even have planning permission but.
The Cagliari stadium is once more but to be constructed, together with the one which Inter and Milan are engaged on to switch San Siro.
Palermo could possibly be a powerful candidate for Abodi, because the membership is owned by the identical firm that runs Manchester Metropolis, and is raring to revamp their infrastructure.
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EURO 2032 host stadium candidates
Bari (Stadio San Nicola), Bologna (Stadio Dall’Ara), Cagliari (New Stadium), Florence (Stadio Franchi), Genoa (Stadio Ferraris), Lecce (Stadio Giardiniero), Milan (New Stadium), Naples (Stadio Maradona), Palermo (Stadio Barbera), Rome (Stadio Olimpico, New Roma Stadium, Stadio Flaminio), Salerno (Stadio Arechi), Turin (Juventus Stadium), Verona (Stadio Bentegodi)