EURO 2016 Stadium Eskisehir
Location: Eskisehir / Turkey
Client: TFF Turkish Football Federation
Capacity: 38.792 seats
Resident: Eskisehirspor Kulübü (Süper Lig)
Period: 2009/2010
Architect: Hoevers/IAA Architekten, Amsterdam-Enschede / Netherlands
Project despription:
New stadium, centrepiece of new university sports complex at
outlying area of town.
Services arenaCom:
For the Turkish bid hosting the EURO 2016, arenaCom was mandated exclusively by TFF to develop six new stadia and to re-design three existing stadia.
Conviction of UEFA‘s Stadium Committee in „EURO 2016 Evaluation Report“:
„The stadium plans put forward by Turkey are professional, of a very high standard and all requirements are met“, whilst the competitors France and Italy were rated with „good“ respektive„reasonable“ standard, both „with a number of compromises“.