Serie A Side Fiorentina Submits Plans To City Council For New Stadium

Serie A side Fiorentina "submitted plans for a new stadium to the city council," and hopes to play games there in '21, according to FOOTBALL ITALIA. The team is one of "a number of Italian clubs looking to construct new arenas, following in the footsteps of Juventus, Sassuolo and Udinese." Italian bureaucracy "means that such projects often take a long time." There "may now be some progress with the project," however, as the club has submitted plans for a 40,000-seat stadium to the Florence City Council. Urban Planning Head Lorenzo Perra said, "Now begins the process of analyzing the documentation. Let's say that 2017 could be the year where the bureaucratic process is concluded, 2018 the announcement and construction could start in 2019." Roma’s plans for a new stadium "have been hit by a series of delays," as the arena was initially due to open for next season but it "now appears the Giallorossi will do well to break ground" in '17 (FOOTBALL ITALIA, 12/29).