Nou Mestalla () is a partially built

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, intended as a replacement for

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's current stadium,

Estadio Mestalla Mestalla Stadium ( es, Estadio de Mestalla , ca-valencia, Estadi de Mestalla ) is a football stadium in Valencia, Spain. The stadium is the home of Valencia Club de Fútbol and has a capacity of 48,600 seats, making it the 8th-largest stadium i ...

. The basic concrete structure of the stadium was built between August 2007 and February 2009, but work was then halted for financial reasons. The design was revised in 2013 with a reduced capacity. The stadium architects are Reid Fenwick Asociados and ArupSport, and the cost is estimated between €250 million and €300 million. The design features a futuristic exterior, clad in aluminium and an interior of wood. It is being built on the site of a former factory in the neighbourhood of Benicalap.

History

The plans for the new stadium were unveiled on 10 November 2006, by former president Juan Soler and the club who unveiled details about the stadium and presented a short film about the stadium at the '' Museu Príncipe Felipe'' in Valencia. Planned capacity would have been around 80,000. The work on Nou Mestalla began in August 2007. It was due to be completed in the early summer 2009, in time for the 2009–10 season, but due to financial problems this date was never met. On 12 December 2011, the club announced that it had negotiated a deal with

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to complete the stadium and transfer the old Mestalla property to the bank, and that it expected to complete the stadium in approximately two years, but this deal later collapsed. On 13 November 2013, Valencia announced an updated redesign by Fenwick Iribarren Architects. The new design reduced the capacity to 61,500. It also reduced the underground car park and downsized the original design's full roof and elaborate façade. There were also redesigns of the interior decoration. No date was given for when construction would restart. However, the construction was not renewed since then. On 3 October 2017, Valencia announced they will begin negotiations with Valencia's city council to renew the project and complete the building process of Nou Mestalla. The stadium will lose 20,000 seats compared to the original design and a modified design. Because of this the likely capacity when opened could be 54,000 seats, 7th largest in Spain instead of 3rd largest when planned. On 28 December 2021,

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introduced to

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, the new project for finishing the venue. In the new project, the stadium will reduce its capacity to roughly 43,000-50,000 seats.

Accident

On 26 May 2008, four construction workers lost their lives following the collapse of some

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on the Nou Mestalla site. At midday on 28 May, the

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and

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s called a five-minute silence for the tragedy, which was observed throughout the

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in all sectors of industry.

References

External links

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Stadium Fan siteWorld StadiumsWhat happened to the Nou Mestalla on Inside Spanish Football
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