Tuttosport: Recent crowds for Milan and Inter force reflections on new stadium capacity

By Oliver Fisher -

Fans have returned in droves to see AC Milan and Inter at San Siro since crowds returned and stadiums are now back at 100% capacity, which could force some reflections.

As reported this morning by Tuttosport (via MilanNews), both Milan and Inter have registered huge numbers in terms of turnout at the stadium in the last month as more than 68,000 showed up for a Monday night game between the Rossoneri and Bologna then 70,259 were at the 2-0 win over Genoa and 74,508 spectators attended the Coppa Italia derby.

It shows the renewed passion of the Rossoneri fans who have a team fighting for something concrete after 10 years of struggles, but it certainly also raises questions about construction of the new stadium that the Milanese sides are pushing for.

It was agreed that 63,000 should be the capacity of the new Populous stadium, but is it enough? The ‘Cathedral’ project proposed to the council has a limit which has been far exceeded in the last few games for the two teams.

The real problem is undoubtedly economic as it would cost more to build a stadium with greater capacity and to maintain it, but on the other hand around Europe we see Barcelona and Real Madrid expanding their stadiums, with Liverpool and Manchester United intending to do the same.

Tags AC Milan

5 Comments

  1. How dumb is this? So you base capacity for a.future stadium on two games not the entire season?

    Of course you will sell out a derby 3 times over but what about the smaller games? The average attendance for a Milan game is around 40k. A 60k stadium is ample. The big games will cost more but ppl will pay and Milan will make their revenues

  2. Just build it even it is smaller than san Siro. Let shinter rent sansiro and AC Milan build own stadium on other area like sesto

  3. It may apply reasonably to other teams, but if Milan should expand its stadium, it have to go from 80,000 and up, which is too greater of a stadium. Barca also follows this logic, but the difference is that Nou Camp have no roof and in order to be build one, they should add up in construction to the current one. No much of a choice, minding Messi era is over.

  4. It may apply reasonably to other teams, but if Milan should expand its stadium, it have to go from 80,000 and up, which is too greater of a stadium. Barca also follows this logic, but the difference is that Nou Camp have no roof and in order to be build one, they should add up in construction to the current one. No much of a choice, minding Messi era is over.

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