FA wants to use the Amsterdam Arena model

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The Football Association wants to use the famous Dutch Amsterdam Arena as a model for the construction of a new state-of-the-art stadium when it demolishes the current Rasunda national ground to build a new all-weather complex with a 60, 000 capacity.

The Rasunda has already been rebuilt several times but authorities are determined to go down a different route now. “We can’t defend another rebuilding from an economic perspective,” architect Stefan Holmgren told Dagens Nyheter. The plans for the new stadium will be presented at the annual FA meeting in Stockholm on the 2 and 3 of December. “In an earlier decision from this meeting, with representatives from the whole of Sweden’s football community, we received a positive reply about the construction of a new stadium,” FA general secretary Sune Hellstromer said.

The cost for the new stadium is believed to be around EU 220m and the FA will finance the deal by selling both the ground and the stadium to a building company before making itself a part of the stadium company after the deal is done. The new ground should be ready in late 2009.