Inter Milan and AC Milan hope the new San Siro stadium will be ready by 2030, but Inter president Giuseppe Marotta expressed concern on Friday that Italy’s slow bureaucracy could delay the project.
Inter and AC Milan completed the purchase of the 99-year-old stadium and the surrounding area of the city on Wednesday. This cleared the way for the Serie A clubs to demolish it and jointly build a new arena with 71,500 seats.
The idea is to have the new stadium ready for the time when Italy, together with Turkey, organizes the 2032 European Championship.
“It is clear that the aim is to be ready well before the start of Euro 2032 to ensure that this new stadium can be used during the European Championship,” Marotta told reporters outside the Football Business Forum in Milan on Friday.
«We hope that all this can happen because we are dealing with a typically very slow Italian bureaucracy. I hope this can be completed by 2030.»
Marotta was one of the speakers at the forum and participated in the opening panel. And there he criticized the Italian bureaucracy at length.
«In the last 15 years, 50 stadiums have been built in Europe with an investment of around 20 billion euros. In that time, only three stadiums have been modernized in Italy, so we are far behind,» he said.
«So we have to ask ourselves why. I don’t think the biggest problem is the need for more money, but rather the inertia of the bureaucracy here.»
Both Milanese clubs are owned by American companies: Milan by RedBird, Inter by Oaktree.
“Just think: two of the most important clubs in Italy are in foreign hands,” Marotta added. “That means that the Italian system is not able to support top-level sport.”
What are the plans for the new stadium?
The clubs already announced agreements with architectural firms Foster + Partners and Manica to design the new stadium. The location will be part of a project covering approximately 281,000 square meters.
The deal to buy San Siro was valued at 197 million euros ($226 million) and Milan president Paolo Scaroni had said the clubs would invest well over a billion euros in building the new stadium.
It is estimated that the clubs could each earn as much as 180 million euros ($208 million) a year from the new arena, more than double their roughly 80 million euros ($93 million).
More revenue would come from attracting tourists on non-match days – to visit the museum or tour the stadium – and from organizing concerts and other events and possibly selling the naming rights for the new arena.
“We want to build the best stadium in Europe because Milan is one of the football capitals of Europe and needs and deserves a phenomenal infrastructure,” Scaroni said at the forum on Friday. “We want a structure that is open to the world every day.
«If you go to San Siro now… there is no one, you will be afraid to walk around San Siro, simply because this is a building that is either too full when there is a match, or too empty when there is no match. We want a place where something happens every day. There are restaurants, hotels, commercial activities, all that. These kinds of things will be built in Milan by 2030.»
Published on November 7, 2025
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