Torino submits plan to redevelop and operate home stadium
Torino FC has submitted plans to redevelop and operate its city-owned stadium and integrate it with the club’s Robaldo academy base under a proposed public-private partnership.
The City of Turin has received a feasibility proposal from Torino FC setting out options for modernising and managing the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino and the Centro Sportivo Robaldo.The submission follows an expression of interest that the Serie A club lodged in April alongside the Politecnico di Torino, taking the project into a formal municipal review that could lead to a public tender for development rights.Turin mayor Stefano Lo Russo said: “After successfully overcoming the mortgage restrictions that had burdened the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino for 20 years in July 2025, we are taking another step forward in a process we have strongly supported and pursued over the years, which aims to enhance venues that are essential to football and our city.“The presentation of this proposal opens a new phase, in which municipal offices will conduct all the necessary technical and administrative assessments, in full compliance with legal procedures and the public interest.“Our goal is to create the conditions for the redevelopment of the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, eagerly awaited by the city and its fans, as part of a broader project for a sports city that also includes the Robaldo facilities.”Torino has proposed a public-private partnership financed at project level, with municipal officials now due to examine the design options and assess whether the scheme qualifies for a declaration of public utility.The city said it was withholding technical details because they could form the basis of a future tender, so the submission does not give Torino development or operating rights.Torino president Urbano Cairo credited Lo Russo with getting the proposal to this stage, saying: “With his commitment he has made the submission of this project possible, which at the end of the planned process could give a decisive push towards the creation of a modern facility.”Robaldo is already operational as Torino’s academy base, while the stadium, which opened in 1933, has been municipally owned for most of its history apart from a period of club ownership between 2002 and 2005.The city has twice renewed Torino’s existing stadium concession since the club submitted its initial expression of interest, allowing it to continue playing home matches there while the longer-term plans are considered.Turin’s councillor for sport, Domenico Carretta, said: “This news marks a decisive step for the future of the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, transforming Torino FC’s expression of interest last April into a concrete proposal.“Now we will begin the administrative process necessary to verify its validity, in the hope that we can quickly reach a new chapter in the future of the facility, with the aim of maximising its value.”