Unipol Domus, Football stadium in Cagliari, Italy
Unipol Domus is a football stadium in Cagliari's Sant'Elia district, built entirely from prefabricated metal modules clad outside in wood and plastic panels. Its 16,416 numbered seats are split into five sectors: Curva nord, Curva sud, Distinti, Tribuna and an away section of 415 places. With no athletics track, every stand looks straight onto the pitch, no more than seven metres from the touchline.
The Stadio Sant'Elia was declared unusable in 2012, forcing Cagliari Calcio to play in Trieste and then at Is Arenas in Quartu Sant'Elena. In May 2017 work began on a provisional stadium in the eastern car park of the Sant'Elia, using the Dalmine stands and the Main Stand from those previous grounds. It opened on 10 September 2017 as Sardegna Arena with Cagliari-Crotone. On 24 July 2021 a ten-year naming deal with Unipol renamed it Unipol Domus.
The name Domus is Latin for "house", and in Sardinian domus is the plural of "houses"; the club chose it for the ground it calls home. The blue band of the stand carries the letters "CAGLIARI 1920", the club's founding year, and a red banner above reads "UNA FEDE, UN POPOLO, UNA SQUADRA".
The stadium stands in the Sant'Elia district, on the eastern parking area of the old Stadio Sant'Elia. All 16,416 seats are numbered and covered, and the stands sit at most seven metres from the pitch, with no athletics track between them and the field. The ground is a provisional structure, so it is expected to be dismantled once the new permanent stadium is finished.
The stands were assembled from second-hand prefabricated modules: the Dalmine tribunes already used at the Stadio Sant'Elia and Is Arenas, and the Main Stand built for the Quartu Sant'Elena ground. The whole structure is prefabricated metal clad in wood and plastic panels, and no stand is more than seven metres from the pitch.
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