By Jaroslaw Adamowski
August 25 – FC Aktobe has unveiled plans to build a new stadium with a seating capacity of 32,000. The Kazakh club says the construction of a new sports facility will be supported by the country’s government as parts of efforts to promote football. The side’s current stadium has a capacity of some 13,500 seats.
“We are developing a design and feasibility study. Our … objective is to build a stadium for 32,000 spectators,” said Archimed Muhambetov from the regional authorities of the Aktobe province. “The stadium will be built in compliance with UEFA category four standards.”
In 2015, the club aims to finalise works on the design of the new sports facility, according to the official.
“We want to launch the construction of the stadium in 2016,” Muhabetov said.
The facility was opened in 1975, and the club modernised it in 2000, when plastic seats and LED displays were installed at the stadium.
Set up in 1967, FC Aktobe is based in Aktobe, in the country’s western part. The club currently plays in the top tier of Kazakhstan’s professional football league, the Kazakh Premier League. FC Aktobe won the country’s championship in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013.
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