Fantastic! This is how the new Puskás stadium looks like – Photos, Video

According to the plans, it will be capable of accommodating 65,000 spectators, and it will be ready by 25 November, the Day of Hungarian Football.

The biggest construction project

The Puskás stadium is the biggest construction project of the last three decades – reported magyarepitok.hu. They were present on a stadium tour organised for the Hungarian press by the Hungarian Football Federation. The inauguration is planned to be in November; however, a film on the present state of the building has already been shared with the public and can be watched below:

The project started in 2016 with the demolition of the former stadium, and in 2017, West Hungária Bau Ltd. and Épkar Ltd. started to build the structure of the new arena.

Balázs Fürjes, the secretary of state responsible for the development of Budapest and its agglomeration, said that the building is already structurally complete. However, they still have a lot to do regarding, for example, its electricity system or the lawn of the playground. According to him, at the beginning of the works, it was a principle to

preserve what they can.

Therefore, for example, the old tower will remain intact in which they plan to open a Ferenc Puskás museum in spring 2020. Furthermore, the new stadium’s pylons will also be similar to the old one’s. Finally, they built the concrete of the old arena into the new stadium.

The construction gave an opportunity for 15,000 people to work in the last three years. At the moment, 1,500-2,000 of them are working in the stadium. The secretary of state highlighted that among them, there are many Hungarians from the neighbouring countries.