{"id":24723,"date":"2026-06-05T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:53:11","slug":"new-stadium-president-giulinis-words","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stadium | President Giulini&#8217;s words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cagliari Calcio president Tommaso Giulini spoke at the conference &#8220;The Future of Italian Stadiums,&#8221; hosted by the Parma Serie A Festival. The project for Cagliari&#8217;s new stadium was at the center of the discussion. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>OVER TEN YEARS OF WORK<\/strong><br\/>Our journey toward Cagliari&#8217;s new stadium began over ten years ago, when I took over the club. The team played in Trieste, Tempio Pausania, and Quartu Sant&#8217;Elena. I arrived at a time when Cagliari effectively had no stadium to play its home games. Within a few months\u2014thanks to the then Mayor, Massimo Zedda, and the city administration, the same one that has been back in power for a few years\u2014we quickly managed to return to the Stadio Sant&#8217;Elia, albeit with a limited capacity, and then built our current Unipol Domus in just over three summer months. We&#8217;ve been playing in that stadium for almost ten years now, starting in September 2017. The hope, then, was that it would be a temporary stadium, before we could quickly move into the new stadium that will be built next door, replacing the old Sant&#8217;Elia.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LONG PROCESS<\/strong><br\/>Over the years, we&#8217;ve encountered numerous entities within the Conference of Services and the Provincial Supervisory Commission, which have requested countless modifications to the project over time. Meanwhile, markets, geopolitical contexts, and municipal and regional administrations have changed. We managed to overcome all the project obstacles, but then the economic and financial ordeal began. We&#8217;re talking about a Business Plan, which we seem to be quite close to getting approved, which must be verified by numerous validators in order to obtain Public Utility status for the project. To achieve this, the professionals in charge require extensive details regarding aspects related to agreements with private parties, which, however, may be subject to change over the years due to normal market dynamics. This applies to naming rights and other key elements, such as the fee that Cagliari will pay to the concessionaire of the new facility. We understand how complicated it is to build a stadium in Italy today.      <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE FRENCH MODEL<\/strong><br\/>I believe that if it weren&#8217;t for an Italian entrepreneur in Cagliari who decided to lead the club all these years, rather than an entrepreneur or a group intent on pursuing a real estate business, the city and the club would have no chance of having a stadium today. I think the French model could be a good example to follow: in 2010, when they learned they would host the 2016 European Championship without having to share it with another country, as is the case with the 2032 European Championship between Italy and Turkey, the French stadiums were all obsolete, except the Stade de France. The only one that met UEFA standards was the Stade de France. A task force was launched to renovate or build the stadiums: two (the Parc des Princes in Paris and the Lyon stadium) with private funding, and Marseille through a public-private partnership. We&#8217;re talking about three major stadiums in terms of the size of their cities and the caliber of their teams, comparable to Rome, Milan, and Naples. But football needs stadiums not only in big cities, which is why three stadiums (Lens, Saint-Etienne, Toulouse) have been completely renovated with public funds, and three others (Bordeaux, Lille, and Nice) have been built from scratch. If France has financed over \u20ac800 million through local authorities for stadiums, I believe there is a way to have more stadiums in Italy in addition to Juventus&#8217;s within a reasonable timeframe.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23375,"template":"","tags":[489,1110],"news_cat":[278,277,276],"class_list":["post-24723","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-tommaso-giulini-en","tag-new-stadium","news_cat-new-in","news_cat-rossoblu-world","news_cat-latest-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Stadium | President Giulini&#039;s words<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cagliari Calcio president Tommaso Giulini spoke at the conference &quot;The Future of Italian Stadiums,&quot; hosted by the Serie A Festival in Parma.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Stadium | President Giulini&#039;s words\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cagliari Calcio president Tommaso Giulini spoke at the conference &quot;The Future of Italian Stadiums,&quot; hosted by the Serie A Festival in Parma.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cagliari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-05T18:53:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VSPA1360-giulini.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2039\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1529\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/\",\"name\":\"New Stadium | President Giulini's words\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VSPA1360-giulini.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-05T18:09:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-05T18:53:11+00:00\",\"description\":\"Cagliari Calcio president Tommaso Giulini spoke at the conference \\\"The Future of Italian Stadiums,\\\" hosted by the Serie A Festival in Parma.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VSPA1360-giulini.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VSPA1360-giulini.webp\",\"width\":2039,\"height\":1529},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/new-stadium-president-giulinis-words\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New Stadium | President Giulini&#8217;s words\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Cagliari - 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