Naples, the'goal now is a new stadium for the 2032 European Championships

Hard statement from Napoli regarding the future of the Diego Armando Maradona stadium and more: “The meeting held between Uefa, Figc, the City Council and SSC Napoli, the latter represented by lawyer Arturo Testa, had an interlocutory outcome, as no decision” was made.

“Uefa communicated the strict parameters required to host the matches of the 2032 European Football Championships, stressing the necessary harmony that must exist between the Club and the Municipality for the successful outcome of the project. The SSCN has expressed its judgment that the Maradona is unsuitable to host Euro ’32. No ok was given by Uefa and Figc to the City’s project, as written by some press organs”.

“After two years of studies by the technicians commissioned by the club, the prerequisites of compatibility for an investment at the Maradona have been excluded. Even the interventions hypothesized by the municipality, unsatisfactory from the point of view of their economic and financial sustainability, would not allow for the’adaptation to the standards that should characterize a modern facility”.

“and would not allow for the construction of a new facility.

“Napoli intends to invest its own resources in the construction of a new facility, also capable of hosting Euro 2032. The company, in this sense, has identified a degraded area of the city, where the construction of a new stadium would contribute, significantly and at no cost to the community, to the city”;s urban revival plan.