Aberdeen Breaks Ground On New Stadium Site

Construction has started on the site of Scottish Premiership side Aberdeen's proposed new stadium and training complex at Kingsford, according to the HERALD SCOTLAND. The club received permission to build a new £50M ($65.9M) site earlier this year "across the city," which will include a new 20,000-seat stadium and training facilities that will result in the club leaving Pittodrie. Manager Derek McInnes, who has been "heavily involved in the planning and campaigning for the facility," was present as phase one of construction on the site got under way on Tuesday. The first phase of the development will include the construction of a training pavilion, three training pitches, two 3G pitches and two grass pitches, with building work "expected to be completed" in the summer of '19. There has been "opposition to the plans throughout," however, with campaign group "No Kingsford Stadium" still "planning to take legal action" (HERALD SCOTLAND, 7/3).