Vieira wants to build a city of Benfica and turn the light into a Santiago Bernabéu

“City of Benfica” – Luís Filipe Vieira intends to build a stadium with 120,000 seats, wrapped in a large commercial complex, with multipurpose pavilion, a hotel, offices. Would be funded by a real estate fund.

The advance, in this Monday’s edition, that Luís Filipe Vieira wants to make light a “Santiago Bernabéu”.

The former president of the incarnates dreams of a stadium for Benfica with a capacity for 120,000 people who can be turned into a show room.

In addition, the stadium would be surrounded by a large commercial complexwith multipurpose pavilion, a hotel, offices.

According to Correio da Manhã, the former president of the incarnates is already working on this idea with the team that will accompany him if he advances with an application for elections at the October 25 club. The morning says that Vieira has already scheduled a meeting with the architect who made the current Estádio da Luz.

For the project, called City of Benficatwo hypotheses are on the table: one is to reshape the current stadium, taking advantage of the current structure; another, according to the CM, goes through demolish the current stadium and build a new.

Vieira wants to receive 50 million per year

Vieira’s goal is that the investment will be supported by a real estate fund. In exchange for the concession the Benfica would receive 50 million euros per year.

Vieira understands that this would be guaranteed greater financial stability and, consequently, would be avoided the sale of players.

Currently, Benfica It is already increasing the stocking of the Stadium of Luz. As the CM details, the stadium will have 68,100 places in the new season but the goal is to reach 70 thousand until 2027.

Eyes put in the 2030 World Cup

The goal is for the new enclosure to be ready Time from the 2030 World Cup that Portugal will jointly organize Spain and Morocco.

If the new light reached the 120,000 places, the stadium would become a candidate to receive the final of this tournament – Since FIFA requires a minimum of 80,000 places, and no stadium in Portugal has these conditions.