New Panathinaikos Stadium is a football stadium with an additional multi-use sports complex in Athens, Greece, that will host all departments of the Panathinaikos sports club set for completion in 2026. The complex will be located in the historic Votanikos area, west of downtown Athens. The entire project includes the football stadium (seating 39,000), a volleyball, handball and basketball stadium (seating 3,100), swimming pool (seating 500), and gymnastics facilities.
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Full name | New Panathinaikos Stadium |
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Location | Votanikos, Athens, Greece |
Coordinates | 37°58′59″N 23°41′44″E |
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Owner | Municipality of Athens |
Operator | Panathinaikos A.O. |
Capacity | 40,000 Football Stadium 3,100 Volleyball, Handball and Basketball Stadium 500 Swimming Pool |
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Opened | End of 2024[1]-July 2026[2] |
Construction cost | 125.000.000 € |
Architect | A&S ARCHITECTS |
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Panathinaikos F.C. Panathinaikos A.O. |
The Votanikos area currently houses mostly vacant, dilapidated storage and industrial facilities.
The football stadium was to be ready for the 100 years of the club in 2008, with the rest of the complex completed by 2011. This construction was the idea of popular former president of Panathinaikos, Thanasis Giannakopoulos.
By October 2013 and due to the club's and the country's financial troubles, the construction of the Votanikos Arena has stopped and consequently the plans for the demolition of the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium were cancelled. After another five-year spell at the Olympic Stadium, the team has returned to its traditional home ground once again.
In 2022, mayor of Athens Kostas Bakogiannis, announced that the project is going to start building and it will last for 3 years. The most significant part of the agreement between Panathinaikos & Municipality of Athens was the fact that the team had to offer Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium in exchange of its new Stadium. After the construction of the arenas, Panathinaikos will be the owner of the whole Votanikos Sport Complex for 100 years. The new football, basketball, volleyball arenas and other facilities will be ready at the start of 2026.[3][citation needed]
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