Panathinaikos F.C. New Stadium

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Panathinaikos New Stadium (also known as Votanikos Stadium) is a football stadium with an additional multi-use sports complex in Elaionas, Athens, Greece, that will host all departments of the Panathinaikos sports club set for completion in May 2027. The complex will be located in the historic Votanikos neighborhood, west of Athens. The entire project includes the football stadium (seating 40,000), a volleyball, handball and basketball stadium (seating 3,100), swimming pool (seating 500), and gymnastics facilities.

The Votanikos neighborhood 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 had stopped and consequently the plans for the demolition of the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium were cancelled. In 2022, mayor of Athens Kostas Bakogiannis announced that the project is going to be implemented and its construction will...