The National Stadium of El Salvador ( es, Estadio Nacional de Salvador) is a 50,000-seat

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...

under construction in

Antiguo Cuscatlán Antiguo Cuscatlán ''(colloquially known as Antiguo)'' is a municipality in the La Libertad Department (El Salvador), La Libertad department of El Salvador, and its eastern tip lays in San Salvador Department part of the Metropolitan Area of San ...

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...

intended as a replacement for the

El Salvador national football team The El Salvador national football team ( es, Selección de fútbol de El Salvador) represents El Salvador in international football, and is governed by the Salvadoran Football Federation (FESFUT). In 1899, two teams from Santa Ana and San Sa ...

's current stadium,

Estadio Cuscatlán The Estadio Cuscatlán is a football stadium located in the city of San Salvador, El Salvador. It was inaugurated in 1976. It can hold 53,400 spectators, making it the stadium with the largest spectator capacity in Central America and the Cari ...

. The stadium will be bulit on the site of the former Escuela Militar Capitán General Gerardo Barrios. The construction of the US$500 million stadium began on 8 September 2022. It will be the second modern sport and event arena to be built in Central America. Once built it will have a hotel outside the stadium, auditorium, medical clinic, rooms inside the stadium, administrative offices, and a multi-sports area outside the stadium with beach soccer, basketball courts, fast football fields and a parking area for 2,000 vehicles.

Funding and Construction

The initial cost was $100 million, it grew to $500 million. The Chinese government will finance the construction of the stadium in its totality, along with its furnishing, and assume all other costs. The construction of the stadium formed part of the agreements signed between the presidents of

and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Nayib Bukele Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (; born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who is the 43rd president of El Salvador, serving since 1 June 2019. He is the first president since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) not to have ...

and

Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...

, respectively, during Jinpings' first visit to the Central American country in 2019. On 1 April 2022, the

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San Salvador San Salvador (; ) is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital i ...

announced that the Specific Delegation Group of China Aviation Planning and Design Institute (Group) Co., Ltd. signed the minutes of foreign conversation on research and design of the stadium project with the INDES representative. On 16 May 2022, the Chinese embassy announced the start date of construction. On 8 June 2022, demolition of the Escuela Militar Capitán General Gerardo Barrios started. On 8 September 2022, the stadium broke ground. The Chinese company China Aviation Planning and Design Institute (Group) Co., Ltd. is in charge of the construction of the stadium.

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