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.

In a poor neighbourhood of the capital, a facility built with poor materials and simple but effective architecture that expresses the desire to also be an instrument of social dialogue. The sports centre, inaugurated last November, is named after a world champion boxer who died prematurely in 2017.

The Energizer Park in St. Louis is an example of integrating the sports facility into an urban regeneration plan, within a broader concept of openness to the city and sustainable living.

The Philips Stadion, in its evolution, reflects the architectural diversity of Eindhoven, and has transformed almost in parallel with the city, becoming today a contemporary structure with a well-defined technological soul, and perfectly integrated in what is a conurbation with just over 200,000 inhabitants. Enriched by choices increasingly oriented towards technological optimisation, such as the installation of a sound and speaker system specifically designed for this facility, and the recent introduction of the new lighting system for the grass growth of the playing field, the PSV stadium, like Eindhoven, is a virtuous example in the relationship between space and architecture.

At the end of a 10-year process, the renovated Estadio Santiago Bernabéu became a reality with the start of the 2024/25 football season.

Returning to talk, as we do every year, about grass in sport, we tried to take stock of the ‘focuses’ that are of most interest, with a view to a future that awaits a change of pace about the environment. We therefore focused on football, taking advantage of Tsport’s experience with the training events organised over the past year in many different stadiums and training centres.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 9. An example of an improved technical bid, submitted in the tender, oriented towards efficiency and sustainability.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 7. Large sports facilities designed in the USA have been among the first to chase the goals of ‘sustainability’, thanks also to the precise reference given by the LEED certification that assigns a score for each of the factors involved in the design and management of the building.

Sustainable Design Special Report – 8. The exemplary cases of two projects by the international firm Zaha Hadid Architects: the reconstruction of the stadium in Aarhus, Denmark, and the construction of the new Forest Green Rovers FC stadium in England.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 5. As part of an increasingly evident effort to stimulate a conscious design of the new generation of stadiums, FIFA (football’s highest international body) has dedicated an important part precisely to sustainability within the recent 2023 edition of its ‘Football Stadium Guidelines’.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 6. A design guide through the parameters of LEED® certification.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 2. The Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) are the environmental requirements defined for the various phases of the purchasing process by the Public Administration, aimed at identifying the best design solution, product or service from the environmental point of view along the life cycle, taking into account market availability.