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Reports hint at major facelift plans for Stade de France

Stade de France upgrade

With an eye on 2024 Olympics, the landmark Stade de France in Saint-Dennis, just north of Paris, will soon get a major facelift that would put the 21-year-old venue among the very best modern stadiums in the world, according to reports by French newspapers l’Equipe and Les Echos. Some of the... » Read more


Kia Oval vows to go single-use plastic free by 2020

Kia Oval goes green

The Surrey County Cricket Club have promised to make the Kia Oval in southwest London a single use plastic free ground by the year 2020, according to a media statement on Kia Oval’s official website (green venue). The ambitious vow follows a number of announcements for the 2018, including a ban... » Read more


Sosnowiec okays ZPS complex plans

Sosnowiec complex Poland

Three years after the winning design for Złębiowski Park Sportowy (ZPS) – one of Poland’s largest proposed sports complexes – was revealed, Sosnowiec city council finally gave its nod for the project with construction tender expected any day now. The decision came just three days after... » Read more


Saracens given green light for £23mn West Stand facelift

Saracens Rugby Club

London-based English professional rugby union team Saracens have been granted planning permission and secured funding to redevelop the West Stand at Allianz Park, with work set to begin this summer at the end of the current season, according to several media reports. The £23 million redevelopment... » Read more


Birmingham confirms 2022 CWG sports, venues

Birmingham 2022 - update

The full list of sports and venues for the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham have been confirmed. Shooting will not be included in the competition. The cycling events will take place in London – the only venue outside the West Midlands.   17 sports events will be held over 11... » Read more


Beckham’s Inter Miami explores potential academy site

Inter Miami Training Academy

As David Beckham’s Inter Miami CF gears up to make its Major League Soccer (MLS) debut in 2020, the club continues to seek a site for soccer academy for young players from across South Florida and may have even found one: A 47-acre ground just outside of Doral, Florida, according to the Miami... » Read more


Leicester City’s plans on track despite owner’s death

Leicester City training ground - update

Leicester City Football Club’s (LCFC) ambitious plans to create Europe’s best football training ground is on track despite the tragic death of owner in a helicopter crash outside the club’s stadium on Oct. 27. Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was among five people killed when his... » Read more


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