By Alexander Krassimirov
January 16 – German company IFS has reached an agreement with the Bulgarian Football Union to build a new modern stadium in Sofia. The facility will be built on the site of Slavia stadium and will be the national stadium for home games as well as being used by Slavia FC.
The seemingly on-off negotiations to turn the stadium talks into reality have ended positively with both the representatives of IFS and the Bulgarian Football Union making positive statements about the building of the stadium.
“The meeting with the national association was positive. We went a step further to start construction of the new stadium. Now we have to reach understanding about the business plan,” told Iva Georgieva, from IFS.
Construction of the facility could being as early as the spring of 2014. The new stadium will have a capacity for 33,000 spectators and will be used in Bulgaria’s bid to be one of the hosts of Euro 2020.
Originally it was proposed that Slavia would share the stadium with CSKA Sofia, but the Reds categorically refused to leave their current home Bulgarska armia.
More recently IFS explored options to participate in the completion of Levski’s stadium Georgi Asparuhov where construction had been suspended due to lack of funds. The management of Bulgarian club and the German company held preliminary talks, but failed to reach an understanding.
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