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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Cagliari Calcio | Capacity: 21,000 seats | Scheduled Opening: 2019 | Status: in planning<\/p>\n

Description<\/h3>\n

Nuovo Stadio Cagliari is the planned new stadium of Cagliari that is to be constructed in place of their current Stadio Sant’Elia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cagliari has been looking to build a new stadium to replace the dilapidated Sant’Elia since the late 2000s. They first focused on a site near Cagliari’s Elmas Airport in the north of the city and proposed a 23,500-seater which they dubbed the Karalis Arena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, this project led to resistance of the local aviation authorities, and Cagliari, fed up with the lack of progress, even temporarily moved to a makeshift stadium in nearby Quartu, Stadio Is Arenas, vowing not to come back to Cagliari.<\/p>\n

However, after a few months their new stadium failed safety checks, and they moved back to Sant’Elia after all, before making some minor refurbishments. They subsequently focused their attention on redeveloping Sant’Elia, but in the end settled on demolishing Sant’Elia and building an entire new stadium at the site.<\/p>\n

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