Construction company Concelex has won a tender for the construction of the new 30,000 capacity Dan Păltinișanu Stadium in Timișoara in Romania.
Romania Insider said investment in the new venue is valued at €140 million and work must be completed by 2028.
The winning consortium was led by Concelex and included Construcții Erbașu, Concelex Engineering SRL, and Terra Gaz Construct.
The new stadium, the largest and most modern after the National Arena in Bucharest, will be built on the site of the former stadium, which has been completely demolished.
The Dan Păltinișanu Stadium is a former multipurpose stadium in Timișoara, Romania. It was the second-largest stadium in Romania with a seating capacity of 32,972. Until its closure in 2022 it was used mostly for football matches by the local team SSU Politehnica Timișoara.
The Societatea Sportivă Universitară Politehnica Timișoara, commonly known as the SSU Politehnica Timișoara, Politehnica Timișoara, or simply Poli Timișoara, is a Romanian professional football club based in Timișoara, Timiș County (Romania) that competes in the Liga III (the third level of the Romanian football league system).
Following the demolition of the Dan Păltinișanu Stadium now their home ground is the 2,600-capacity Știința Stadium in Timișoara.
Local officials say the new venue will be the most modern stadium in Romania.
Timiș County Council president Alfred Simonis said, “The selection procedure has been completed, we have a builder, and if no appeals are filed in the next 10 days, the financing contract can be signed.”
He added that on completion of the bureaucratic process, the winning company will start the design phase, and then the actual construction works for the new stadium can begin.
Concelex is not a newcomer to such projects. The company built the new 31,254-seat Steaua stadium in Bucharest four years ago.
Another company in the consortium, Erbașu Construcții, will, in turn, build the Nicolae Dobrin Stadium in Pitești and the Gheorghe Hagi Stadium in Constanța.
Erbașu Construcții also built the new Bega Maternity Hospital and the Burns Center in Timișoara.
The National Investment Company (CNI) took on the role of organising the design and construction plans of the new arena while demolition work on the old stadium has been taking place.
The tendering process, which was launched in July 2024, saw 87 companies from Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, and Turkey throw their hats into the ring to land the project.
Initially, the state-owned National Investments Company declared another company, Con-A-Operations, as the winner, but the consortium ranked second, led by Concelex, contested the tender result in court and won. Con-A-Operations can also appeal the new ruling.
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