June 6 – The reconstruction of Croatian club Hajduk Split’s Stadion Poljud, will cost the local municipality between €30 – 40 million, according to the mayor of Split, Ivica Puljak.
The money will be provided by the Municipality of Split and the state.
“We think that it is possible to rebuild Poljud, while Hajduk continues to play. The estimated costs are between €30 and 40 million, and would be financed by the City and the state,” Puljak said.
He said that the renovation should take place in the second quarter of 2024.
Hajduk was transformed into a sports joint-stock company in 2008, in which the City of Split became the majority owner of the club with about 56% of the shares.
The majority share of the City owned by Hajduk increased to 65.92% in March 2021, when the Plenković Government decided to transfer 9.82% of Hajduk’s shares from its portfolio to the City of Split’s portfolio at the proposal of the then Split Mayor Andre Krstulović.
The Poljud Stadium has a seating capacity of 34,198 and was constructed in 1979 as one of the venues for the 1979 Mediterranean Games.
In February 2022, the deputy mayor Antonio Kuzmanovic announced the reconstruction of the stadium. Then it was said that the reconstruction would cost 148 million kuna (€20 million) and that the City, as the majority owner, had applied for funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. According to Kuzmanic, it is necessary to rebuild the entire stadium roof and the concrete pillars.
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