Italy’s bid dossier for the 2032 European Football Championships dates back to April 2023. At the time, of the ten stadiums proposed to host the event, one was already ready, three had feasible but unstarted projects, and five could be adapted with appropriate interventions, but were not.

The Games of the 34th Olympiad will take place in Los Angeles (USA) from 14 to 30 July 2028. This is the third time that the Californian city has hosted the Summer Olympics, after 1932 and 1984.

From 24 June to 25 July 2027, Brazil will host the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which will take place in South America for the first time.

The 23rd edition of the World Cup will take place in three North American countries: the United States, Canada and Mexico, from 11 June to 19 July.

The Special Report published in Tsport 365 compares the size of the largest sports facilities in the world with major international sporting events: and there is not always a correlation between the two.

The stadium in Bergamo, home to Atalanta’s home matches, has just completed its latest transformation, while remaining in the same location it has occupied for almost a hundred years. The architects at Studio De8 designed the transformation, carried out in stages between 2019 and 2024, working on the idea of integrating the stadium with the city by transforming the boundary between the two into a permeable and lived-in edge.

Hybrid stadium, miniature city, sports-residential lot. There are many definitions to describe the uniqueness of the Tammela Stadium, a project that represents the ability to imagine city spaces that are based on an objective of liveability and harmony with the context, and only then – as a consequence – are able to accommodate and integrate different functions in a completely natural way.

Conducted in collaboration with the Bayside Council and funded by the New South Wales Government, the sports and recreation area project integrates advanced design elements of landscaping, signage and architecture to enhance the user experience for the local community and visitors.

Taken from the speech by Alastair Cox (ESTC Technical Director) at the Sport&Impianti FORUM on 19 February 2025 at Myplant & Garden 2025.