Braşov Arena

Braşov Arena is a football (soccer) stadium that will be built in Braşov, Romania. It will be financed by the owner of the team that will play in the stadium, FC Braşov's Ioan Neculaie.

Technical details

Capacity: 23,000Car parking: 3,000Aux: conference room, hotel, restaurants, stores, sport utilities

Construction

Commenced: March 2008Estimated time of construction of tribunes: 1 year (spring 2009)Estimated time of completion: 2 years and a half (autumn 2010)

Cost

Tribunes cost: 30 million euro (~43.5 million US dollars)Entire project cost: ~100 millions euro (~145 million US dollars)

Other

-The stadium will be built on the place of the old "Municipal stadium", which wasn't used for sport purposes; it was a soviet-style Olympic stadium that could hold 30,000 people.-Beside the football stadium and the utilities, an indoor sport hall will be built, with an estimated capacity of 6,000.-In a few years, Braşov will have the second largest stadium in Romania, after the new Lia Manoliu Arena and the most modern indoor sports hall in Romania (with the same capacity as the "Sala Polivalenta" in Bucharest, 6,000).