Piter Arena

Piter Arena

Location	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Coordinates	59°58′22.63″N 30°13′13.92″E / 59.9729528°N 30.2205333°E / 59.9729528; 30.2205333Coordinates: 59°58′22.63″N 30°13′13.92″E / 59.9729528°N 30.2205333°E / 59.9729528; 30.2205333
Capacity	66,881 (in FIFA World Cup) 60,500 (after World Cup) ~ 80,000 (MMA, boxing, concert)
Surface	Grass
Construction
Broke ground	2007
Opened	2016 (planned)
Construction cost	$1.1 billion[1]— $1.4 billion (May, 2015)[2]
Tenants
FC Zenit St. Petersburg 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup 2018 FIFA World Cup UEFA Euro 2020
Website
http://piterarena.com/en

The Piter Arena (among proposed names are Zenit Arena or Gazprom Arena, Russian: Зенит Арена или Газпром Арена) is a football stadium in western portion of Krestovsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which is currently under construction.^[3] It will host the home matches of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. The stadium was planned to be completed by December 2008,^[4] which was changed to late 2011.^[5] It is now proposed that the stadium is scheduled to open in 2016.^[6] The stadium will have a capacity of 66,881 people.^[7] It will be called Saint Petersburg Stadium during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.^[8]

Overview

The competition between architectural project was won by Kisho Kurokawa's "The Spaceship". The design of the stadium is a modified and enlarged version of Toyota Stadium in Toyota City, Japan, which was also designed by Kurokawa. The stadium is being built on the location where the former Kirov Stadium used to stand before it was demolished.

In January 2009 the The St. Petersburg Times reported that the project was now to be funded by the city government of St Petersburg, with Gazprom switching to build a separate skyscraper project. City Hall had to step in after Gazprom declined to invest any further money into the stadium's construction.^[9]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The football stadium at western part of Krestovsky island.

• Official website
• Live webcam of stadium construction at http://ingtransstroy.ru
• Updated renders of the stadium after project adjustment
• (English) Section about the stadium on the official website of Zenit

Sports venue and auditoriums in St. Petersburg Open-air recreation areas Petrovsky Stadium 21,600 capacity 1924 opened Dinamo Stadium 12,000 capacity 1929 opened Kirov Stadium 84,000 capacity 1950–2006 Petrovsky Stadium - small arena 2,600 capacity 1994 opened Piter Arena 60,000 capacity under construction Roofed sport and concert areas Yubileyny Sports Palace 7,000 capacity 1967 Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex 25,000 capacity 1980 Ice Palace 12,300 capacity 1999 Сoncert halls Oktyabrskiy Big Concert Hall 3,800 capacity 1967 Mariinsky Theatre, Concert Hall 1,100 capacity 2006