Atleti stadium ‘ready’ next year

Atletico Madrid President Enrique Cerezo has confirmed that his club’s new stadium will be ready to go for the start of the 2017/18 season.

More and more details are emerging about the stadium, which will be the first fully LED-lit stadium in the world at La Peineta – the former athletics stadium which is being redeveloped into a 70,000 capacity stadium to re-house Atletico on the outskirts of the Spanish capital.

"The stadium will be a reality next year," Cerezo said.

"We are working as a team with the regional government and the town hall so that we can have installed for next season – new lights, new services, parking, restaurants, metro, everything."

"We have the lights sorted, but not yet the name," Cerezo said. "We are not so enlightened as to say [yet] what the name of the new stadium will be."

The plans for the stadium were officially announced in 2009 but have suffered a series of setbacks since including a series of debates among local authorities about the provision of transport links to the grounds.

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