Now · the stadium
The Meazza seats
The environmental report filed by Inter and Milan for the new stadium plans to recover, before the Meazza is demolished, about 80% of the seats: 60,654 out of 75,817. It is a plan, not a decision taken: the clubs have not yet established whether the seats will be given free or sold to season-ticket holders.
This page reports the figures and phases as they stand in the documents and in the newspapers that read them. The overall project is in The new stadium; the history of the ground in 100 years of the stadium.
The figures
How many seats, how many to save
The figures are those of the VAS environmental report, as reported by the press. The weight is a conservative estimate in the document.
In yellow the 60,654 seats the plan expects to recover, 80% of the total.
The plan
How it is meant to work
The mechanism set out in the document, as reported by Corriere della Sera, Tuttosport and the sports press. No step has yet been fixed.
The context
Inside a bigger worksite
The photographs
The stands, in photographs
Free photographs of the stadium from the site catalogue: the tiers full on concert nights and the ground seen from outside. Each image carries author, provenance and licence.
On the site
Sources for this page
What this page rests on
Every fact is checked against at least two independent sources and, where one exists, the official source.
Two independent sources
Dates, measurements and names go through at least two sources that do not copy each other. Where it exists, we go to the original: the deed, the archive, the body that owns it. What appears in only one place waits.
One version only
If two sources disagree, the original document prevails. If even that is not enough, only the part they agree on is written: the year, for example, instead of the day.
Updated every day
The press review and calendar are updated every day. Everything else changes when a new document turns up, and then it changes everywhere at once.
From the community
Many memories, family photographs and tips come from people who live here, writing to the Facebook page. They are published only if the sender agrees. How to take part: Community.
Everything traceable
Sources are listed above and on the page Sources, with archive, shelfmark and terms of use.
No interpretation passed off as fact
An approximate figure stays approximate, a project stays a project until construction starts, and whatever does not add up stays out. The criteria are in Method.