Why Are Italian Football Stadiums So Bad?

Thats what not qualifying to a world cup does to you lol the country just gives up on investing money into a sport that doesn't produce results

The think you have overlooked is that most of the stadiums are not owned by the counsel nit the clubs and and shared with other clubs
Most of the clubs where owned by rich industrialist when who because of the financial issues did not have the money to invest in the clubs like before
That is why seria a clubs end up eith the left over that the British, German dont want

To be fair, Germany had his own share of questionable decisions and bad outcomes in regards of the world cup. Kaiserslautern went down to second tear shortly after geting it's new stadium and never got back up again. Hertha BSC of Berlin hit the same fade a few years later and is cosntantly struggling with the huge Olympiastadion they can't fill, especially since their rival from the eastern part of the city went up to the top league.

It went the other way round for Leipzig. By the time the new Zentralstadion replaced the dated and former biggest stadium of the world, one Leipzig had no succesfull club at all. Since then Red Bull came to the rescue and bought one club to the top.

Portugal’s stadiums are better than this…

Look at Kosovo mate, Fadil Vokrri is the main stadium for the national team but it only has 14,000 seats to which tickets would sell out immediately for major matches like world cup qualifiers, EUROS and even Nations Leauge, we also have Adem Jashari Olympic stadium that's still in rebuilt and it hasn't even been finished since it began in 2019, and let's not forget the countless other stadiums from both the top flight Leauge and lower divisions, to be fair, Fadil Vokrri stadium is iconic and famous and it was pretty fun to go to despite it being 70 years old

"Haha, Italian teams and club owners are so bad. Blah, blah." Yes, maybe. Probably. However. The video just shows things were better before. Football has lost its charm and has gotten stuck in mainly a battle of profit, commercialism and modernisation. An example of the last one. Conference league. Is that good? VAR I just can't stand. Give me 2006 instantly and I will take it.

Just as something that might be a bit alternative. Lazio fans will not buy season tickets next season. For the most part because they don't feel respected by club owner, Claudio Lotito. Also they feel him and the club lack ambitions for the future and wants him to sell the club. Between the lines though. I feel they are sick of football. It has changed too much, and it is no longer for the fans. For those having lived behind a rock. There is/was an expression "no al calcio moderno". A fight Italian fans have lost.

So, of course one could build new stadiums. Fiorentina, mentioned in this video are renovating currently. Roma have had plans for a new stadium for 15 years. I don't know where they are now. Lazio also have plans, drawings, and series talks about a new stadium. It will be the stadio Flaminio renovated. I don't know whether it will be built. My point though. Unless Italian football makes a move towards something it was in the 90s/2000s I fear Italian football will die. New stadiums will not save it. Will we see stadiums revamped in Italy in years to come? By 2035 I guess all Serie A stadiums are refurbished/newly built. Maybe with the exception of Empoli and Brescia having been promoted. The first one are good at youth development and economics, but they will never dream of changing the stadio Carlo Castellani.

Just to add one thing in the end. Of course I know about the bureaucratical nightmare of Italian politics.

Not that it’s super relevant to this, but even two years after this video, Italian clubs still have some of the worst badges in world football. Second only to Spain, I’d say, when it comes to boring or ugly crests. Torino, Juventus, Inter and Como are probably the only ones that present well at all. Time for an update. I’m looking at you, Cremonese. WTAF is your logo

So boring, too much waffle.

Fuck Prem. Soulless Blood Money Stadiums with No Character or History.

Quindi gli inglesi ci hanno rovinato anche il calcio: non sono affatto sorpresa

I wonder what their thing is with the athletics track in every stadium, most hardly ever used.

As a Brit living in Italy, the purchasing of tickets here is a ball ache - there’re online forms to complete and ID to bring - you couldn’t just turn up on the day for example. I think this also puts foreign visitors off!

I'll never understand the running tracks around Italian football fields other than it was some sort of money laundering/fraud that was going on

Honesty, I'm really surprised that the answer to this question isn't "The Mafia," because that always seems to be the answer as to why Italy can't get things done.



Also fuck Ronald Reagan 25:34

Bundesliga stadium like this 0:07 and show the biggiest club in Germany LOL.

fun fact: italy might lose her rights to host euro 2032 due to how bad the situation is

Italy has to modernize man, from antiquated attitudes about how Italian food is "supposed" to be made all the way to sporting venues. No wonder your economy is going backwards. Parents were born there and raised there no wonder they left. Pineapple on pizza 4 life.

I’d keep the iconic San Siro and just renovate it to have modern amenities

Running tracks!

IThe demise of Serie A sounds depressing, until you list the alternatives (English clubs backed by oil states, Bayern haemorrhaging all the talent from the rest of the Bundesliga, and Barcelona ludicrous finances).

Plus the majority of new stadia is completely bland and generic.

Funny thing is that after this video Inter of course reached 2 CL finals but could not win either

(I have no doubt they would have won 2024, but fallen to Atletico. That Inter team would demolished that entire bracket and even Madrid)

The SanSiro is a very nice stadium. I think the economic intrests of clubs get far to much weight in this video personally. Yes, running track stadiums are awfull and probably unnecessary in most cases, thats a fair point, but the only point about the icon SanSiro is, that its not a shopping mal for rich people. I think a compromise with trying adding some facilities like this and some Lounge space for people willing to spend a fortune would ultimately be the most reasonable option. If both clubs moove out, the SanSiro is goona be demolished and that would be a shame. So the municipality and the clubs should just try to work together for once. But of course, everyone just wants the maximum for themselves...

Paris FC is kinda rich also

Short answer: Bureaucracy

Super vidéo grazie 😊

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Italy is the best

Another reason for lowers attendances in Italy??
The ultra’s & serious crowd trouble is still a massive thing there.
Go to Lazio v Roma around 2hrs before kick off & watch it kick off & tell me if you would wanna take your kids there. 💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️

Italy 8 years? So, Iran has perhaps the world record for building the Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium in 13 years. Please don't jump to the conclusion. It was only phase one of the building. Sepahan FC played five seasons, but they had to find another ground because they wanted to start with phase 2. This took 9 years, and the stadium was opened in 2016.
Building time: 22 years
Total project time: 27 years
This is the largest sports project of the Islamic regime. We can compare it with Azadi Stadium, which is a part of the Olympic village consisting of a 12,000 indoor facility, swimming pools, and other facilities necessary for the Asian Games of 1974. The whole project took only 2 years in the Shah's time!

Money.
That's it, end of the video.

they are great. soulful and legendary. you disagree youre not a football fan, go to the theatre, thats the sterilenexp youre looking for

So EPL highest average attendance still can't match those of serie A dacedes ago despite the billions pouring in?

Estos estadios están horribles. Saludos desde México.

They are broke, that's why

Same reason as why they live at their parents place until they’re like 40, having issue to let go and move on..

1:13 is it Stadio Ennio Tardini?

Italia negara yang tidak punya uang untuk membangun stadion

that Bari stadium smells like a laundering operation

Its like the glorified Scottish league. Celtic are the big guys, The huns are Juve (disgraced cheaters), Roma/Lazio are Hearts/Hibs. Aberdeen mirror Napoli and then there everyone else.

I am watching this with subtitles on. It is changing Serie A to Syria.
I am getting a chuckle finding out what Syria has been up to and why it is failing.

Like your sense of humour 😂😅 👌

San Siro is a 💩 show. AC MILAN and Inter are having issues getting their stadium

2:00


*Me, a Burnley fan, waiting for the inevitable.*

Okay, I might get banned from Italy, but I don't recall any of the 1994 World Cup Stadia getting any renovations.

swiss stadiums are much worse and we have huge crisis too

23:44 actually the municipality usually only charges at most what is needed to maintain and re-finance the stadium. Because if you own a stadium, you have to pay back the loan you took for building it and pay for it's maintenance, you don't really keep more of your matchday revenue. So that's not the issue, the other tbings mentioned (easier to renovate, being able to sell naming rights) are the issue.