The National Investment Company will announce the winner of the contract worth over 200 million lei, for the construction of a new stadium in Hunedoara. The auction was awarded on October 8, but the participants have ten days to file appeals.
The Corvinul Hunedoara stadium was inaugurated in 1960. Photo: Daniel Guță. THE DEVĂRUL
The new stadium in Hunedoara will be built on the site of the current Corvinul stadium, after its demolition.
The selection of the winner of the auction took place on October 8, 2024, according to the representatives of the National Investment Company (CNI), which will carry out the investment estimated at over 200 million lei.
The name of the winner has not been made public, this can be done after the expiry of the 10-day deadline for filing appeals.
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Hunedoara stadium photo technical project
Six associations of companies bid for the investment to build and equip the new sports complex Corvinul in Hunedoara. The investment will be made on the site of the current Corvinul stadium in Hunedoara, built at the end of the 1950s.
The contract for the construction of a new stadium in Hunedoara was put out to public auction in the summer of 2023, and for several months the auction was suspended, following some appeals. The new stadium in Hunedoara will cover an area of 37,207 square meters, with a height regime of S+P+3E and will have all the facilities and equipment specific to a modern, UEFA category 4 stadium – eligible for the organization of European competitions.
“The new stadium that is intended to be built in the city of Hunedoara through the National Investment Company will have 10,500 seats arranged on two “rings”, underground parking, two road access roads, several pedestrian areas and all the facilities of such a construction , to current standards. It will be built on the site of the current arena in Hunedoara. The costs of demolishing the old stadium will be borne by the Hunedoara City Hall and the Hunedoara County Council”informs Hunedoara City Hall.
The total value of the project amounts to over 200 million lei, the financing to be provided from the CNI budget. The duration for design will be 6 months and the duration of execution 22 months, to which is added a warranty period of five years.
The current stadium, inaugurated in 1960
More than six decades have passed since the construction of the football stadium in Hunedoara (video), the place where thousands of locals passionate about football could cheer on their Corvinul Hunedoara team.
In the 1950s, the old stadium of the city, where the local team “Metalul” played, then called “Energia” (the future Corvinul), gave way to a residential area, and the new sports base “Corvinul” was then designed to the most modern standards from Romania in those years.
The Corvinul Stadium, with a capacity of 16,000 seats, was inaugurated on May 2, 1960, on the occasion of the youth celebrations and the football match between Corvinul Hunedoara and CFR Arad, which ended with the victory of the hosts, with a score of 1-0.
In the summer of 1962, at the Corvinul Stadium, about 30,000 people – according to the newspapers of the time – attended the speech of Nikita Khrushchev, the former leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, who was visiting Hunedoara. Also here, in 1982, thousands of people attended the football match between Romania and Cyprus, from the preliminaries of the 1984 European Championship.
In the 80s, Corvinul returned to Romania’s first football league, and for almost two decades it recorded the best performances in its history, with the exception of 2024, when it won the Romanian Football Cup and participated in the European qualifiers League.
