By Alexander Krassimirov
March 7 – Bulgaria’s Botev Plovdiv has unveiled a new set of pans for the building of the Hristo Botev stadium, where the club will play its home games. The stadium reconstruction should be completed in 2015.
The stadium will be built to UEFA’s Category 4 standards and will have 18,788 seats, 75% of which will be covered. The stadium will have 600 parking spaces for cars and 7 spaces for coaches.
“What we present today is radically different from what was shown to you two years ago. I hope this is the last option, but each subsequent plan we receive from the architects is more beautiful than the previous,” said club president July Popov.
“The supporters of Botev can be proud of the most beautiful stadium in Bulgaria, which will be the fourth category of the UEFA license and could be used to play semi-final games in Europa League. Three years ago we promised this and I hope we will could you welcome to the new facility in May 2015,” he said.
Botev Plovdiv have been playing their home games at the club’s training ground near the town of Plovdiv, which is one of the most modern training facilities in Bulgaria. The owner of the club is the financier Tsvetan Vassilev, who is also the owner of the Corporate Commercial Bank and a leading businessman in Bulgaria.
The new stadium has not been officially named yet and the club management say they will consult fans and only choose the name after “extensive public debate”.
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