AS Roma's Pietralata Stadium Gets Final Approval

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The €1.3 Billion Project Now Races Toward a 2027 Groundbreaking AS Roma's long-running effort to build its own stadium reached a decisive point on Monday, September 28, 2026. The decisive Conferenza dei Servizi on the stadium's technical and economic feasibility project ended with a positive opinion, according to Adnkronos. The final session was held at the "parlamentino" of the Higher Council of Public Works at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, as part of the process leading to a single authorization order.

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• He said work on opening the construction sites could move very quickly, and that he expected the sites to open at the start of 2027.
• Government special commissioner Massimo Sessa, who chairs the process for the Euro 2032 stadiums, signed that authorization.
• Mayor Roberto Gualtieri countersigned it as deputy commissioner, and Agenzia Nova reports the authorization takes effect immediately.
• About 50 institutional and technical bodies sat at the table, including ministries, the State Superintendency, the Campidoglio, Lazio Region and the club itself.
• Speaking after the vote, he said the new stadium was now a certainty and would go ahead.

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He also thanked everyone involved for a spirit of unity and collaboration that had kept the timetable extremely tight. Gualtieri described the project as one of the most beautiful stadiums in the world, tied to a broader redevelopment of the Pietralata district with plenty of greenery and public parks. Sports Minister Andrea Abodi, according to Roma Sport, used the occasion to recall former Roma presidents Dino Viola and Franco Sensi.

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• The project also includes more than 90,000 square meters of underground and surface parking...

Details worth keeping

Panorama, the plan calls for a stadium of just over 60,000 seats.