Air Albania Stadium
| Air Albania Stadium | |
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| Arena Kombëtare | |
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| The stadium on the opening evening | |
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Arena Kombëtare |
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 Tirana , Albania
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| Coordinates | 41 ° 19 '6.2 " N , 19 ° 49' 26.1" E |
| classification | 4th |
| owner | Qendra Sportive KUQ e ZI |
| start of building | June 2016 |
| opening | 17th November 2019 |
| First game |
Test: November 10, 2019 Vllaznia Shkodra Women - Apolonia Fier Women 2: 0 Official: November 17, 2019 Albania - France 0: 2 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 75 million euros |
| architect | Archea Associati |
| capacity | 22,000 seats (football) 30,000 seats (other events) |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m |
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The Air Albania Stadium , known as Arena Kombëtare ( German National Arena ) during the construction period , is the largest football stadium in Albania . It seats 22,000 and was opened in November 2019. The soccer arena is the home ground of the Albanian national soccer team and the final venue of the national soccer cup . It is also planned to hold non-sporting events such as concerts or the like in the facility. A 25-storey tower is part of the stadium. a. will have a Marriott hotel . When it opened, the skyscraper was the tallest in the country.
Building history
 
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Location of the stadium within Tirana |
The first plans for a new football stadium on the site of the previous Qemal Stafa stadium were announced in 2010. Two concrete proposals were made for a new football stadium, which, however, were dropped due to the poor financial viability.
In 2016 the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced the realization of a new stadium. The construction costs should amount to 60 million euros , of which 10 million should come from UEFA and the remaining 50 million euros from private investors. In the end, the costs were stated at EUR 75 million.
The Qemal Stafa Stadium was closed and demolished in June 2016. The new stadium should open on September 1, 2018 and offer space for 22,300 spectators for football matches. For non-sporting events, the capacity should be increased to up to 30,000 people. It was also planned that the new national stadium would house cafes, a press center and a hall of fame. The Italian architecture firm Archea Associati under Marco Casamonti designed the stadium. For example, you were also responsible for designing the renovation of the Stadio Friuli in Udine .
After delays, the completion was postponed to spring 2019. The official opening finally took place on November 17, 2019 as part of the international match against France . At that time, construction was still going on in and around the stadium - but UEFA had released the arena three weeks earlier. On November 9, it was announced that the new stadium would be named after the new airline Air Albania for five years for a fee of € 650,000 per year .
On November 10, 2019, the first test match between the women's teams of Vllaznia Shkodra against Apolonia Fier took place as part of the women's championship, which was originally planned for November 3, but could not be carried out due to the ongoing work. The opening game against France on November 17 as part of the qualification for Euro 2020 was lost 0-2. UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin was also present at the opening .
Web links
- stadiumdb.com: Air Albania Stadium (Arena Kombëtare) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ S'kishte si të ndodhte ndryshe, Vllaznia e inaguron me fitore “Arenën Kombëtare”. In: shkodrasport.com. November 10, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 (Albanian).
- ↑ Klaudjo Jonuzaj: Marriott hotel to open in Albania's Tirana. In: SeeNews. November 28, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Bertrand Métayer: Albanie-France: les Bleus vont essuyer les plâtres du nouveau stade de Tirana. In: Le Parisien. November 17, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Arena Center Tower. In: emporis. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ^ "Qemal Stafa" bëhet ekstra-modern. In: Koha.net. October 1, 2010, accessed December 24, 2010 (Albanian).
- ^ “Arena Kombëtare”, Rama takon Dukën dhe arkitektët italianë ( Memento from September 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ AP: Albania to build a new 22,300-seat stadium. In: USA Today. April 21, 2016, accessed April 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Prezantohet projekti i stadiumit të ri "Qemal Stafa" ( Memento from June 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Qemal Stafa Demolished , Albanian Public Television.
- ↑ stadiumdb.com: New design: Here comes the new Albanian king Article from April 23, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Albania's new national stadium will be ready in March. In: stadionwelt.de. January 8, 2019, accessed January 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Vllaznia-Apolonia, shtyhet për një javë ndeshja e kampionatit të femrave. In: Albanian Football Association. November 1, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 (Albanian).
- ↑ “Arena Kombëtare” hap dyert, luhet ndeshja e parë testuese. In: Balkanweb. November 10, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 (Albanian).
- ^ "Air Albania", emri i ri i stadiumit. In: TV Klan. November 9, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 (Albanian).
- ^ Air Albania Stadium, il nuovo nome dello stadio nazionale di Tirana. November 10, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 (it-IT).
- ^ Presidenti i UEFA-s në Tiranë për Air Albania Stadium; Rama dhe Ceferin me fjalime në ceremoni. In: Top Channel. November 17, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 (Albanian).