Panathinaikos F.C. New Stadium, Football stadium in Votanikos, Greece
Panathinaikos F.C. New Stadium is a football venue in Votanikos with seating for around 40,000 spectators and contemporary facilities designed for match days. The complex also houses spaces for volleyball, handball, and basketball, as well as a swimming pool.
The project was approved by presidential decree in 2013, but work stopped in October 2013 amid the club's and Greece's financial troubles, and the planned demolition of the Apostolos Nikolaidis ground was cancelled. On 2 February 2023 Athens municipality unsealed the bids and awarded construction to the Aktor–Terna–Mytilineos consortium. The stadium is the core of the "Double Regeneration" programme, which also upgrades the Alexandras Avenue area around the old ground.
The ground is the centrepiece of the "Double Regeneration" programme, which pairs the Votanikos build with the redevelopment of the Leoforos Alexandras area the club leaves behind. The club's amateur sections get their own facilities on site: a 3,100-seat indoor arena for volleyball, basketball, futsal, wheelchair basketball, handball and artistic gymnastics, plus a 500-seat Olympic-size outdoor pool for swimming, diving and water polo.
The stadium is being built in Votanikos, west of central Athens, as the centrepiece of the "Double Regeneration" programme that also reworks the Alexandras Avenue area. The site lies within a grove of trees, with a straight walkway leading out from the lower section. The complex plans 325 underground parking spaces and seven shops, plus a 3,100-seat indoor arena, a 500-seat Olympic pool and a 200-seat training hall usable as an events venue.
The 2013 presidential decree approved the project, but work stalled until the Athens municipality unsealed contractor bids on 2 February 2023 and awarded construction to the Aktor–Terna–Mytilineos consortium. The club's 99-year hold on the Votanikos complex is tied to handing over the Apostolos Nikolaidis ground.
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