Roma's new board of directors have plans in place to build a new stadium for the club, with a meeting with the mayor of Rome on Wednesday having resulted in an agreement on a three-year timescale for the project.

The capital side's new president Thomas DiBenedetto has been keen on moving the club away from the Stadio Olimpico since showing his dissatisfaction with the distance between the stands and the playing surface when he first visited the arena earlier this year.


And now that he owns the club outright, he is moving quickly on putting together a blueprint on a new home for the three-times Italian champions.

Having met with mayor Gianni Alemanno at Campidoglio, it has been agreed that 2014 is a realistic completion date for the project, according to Calciomercato.com.

This accounts for 12 months of planning, administration, and the acquisition of a suitable site, plus two years for the building of the stadium.

"It will be an arena that opponents will fear," boasted Alemanno after the meeting with DiBenedetto.

There have been five potential venues earmarked by the Roma board, with talks with possible building partners already at an advanced stage. Mark Pannes, the manager of Raptor Fund, the group owned by board member James Pallotta, is expected to be handed the responsibility of finalising the construction deal.

Former Roma president Rosella Sensi had announced two years ago plans to move to a new 'Stadio Franco Sensi' in the Valle Aurelia area of the city, but the club's huge debts at the time put paid to those hopes.

Juventus recently moved into the new 42,000-seater Juventus Arena, becoming the first Serie A club to own their own stadium and Roma look set to beat the likes of Palermo and Cagliari to become the second outfit to leave their council-owned home ground.




Old video, but I speculate the original design is maintained.

Agnellis and Benedetto keeping Italy alive.

Next: Milan and Inter announce shared stadium plans.

Location is a pretty big issue, definitely going to have to go to the outskirts to find enough space to build a new stadium and the area surrounding it. Then the complaints are going to come in because it'll be too far from the center of Rome. The space just south-west of Rome's main ring highway seems like the best spot, for those of you familiar with the city.

And now we welcome............



"THE AGE OF NEW STADIUMS"

who needs a new stadium when they have Renieri

Potential wrote:Next: Milan and Inter announce shared stadium plans.

I really hope that when Milan or Inter decide to build a new stadium, that they go together. We have been playing too long with each other that it wouldn't feel like home without having the annoying brother share it with you. I hope we just buy and upgrade the San Siro from Italy since it witnessed our triumphs all those years.

Leaving would feel so sad.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the Meazza rather than make a new stadium?

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the Meazza rather than make a new stadium?

They tried doing it, but the clubs are undecided and so is the city of Milan. Rather a confusing situation.

I hope they do.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the Meazza rather than make a new stadium?

It's an old stadium, ideally you would want to move into a new cool fresh modern place. I don't know how much the Meazza can be renovated. Also it's easier to keep out racous Ultras at a new stadium than at the same old one.

Also this is great news, the more Serie A teams that have their own stadiums, the easier it will be for city councils to cave in.