Stadio Benito Stirpe

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Stadio Benito Stirpe
Stadio Benito Stirpe
LocationViale Olimpia, Frosinone, Italy
Owner Frosinone Calcio
Capacity 16,227 seated [1]
Surface Grass
105x68m
Construction
Broke ground1974
Opened2017
Construction cost€20 million
Tenants
Frosinone Calcio (2017–)

The Stadio Benito Stirpe (also known as Stadio Casaleno), is an all-seater football stadium in the Italian city of Frosinone, Lazio.

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Designed in the mid-1970s and built in the second half of the 1980s, [2] the stadium remained unfinished for about thirty years. The stadium was completed between 2015 and 2017 on the initiative of local football team Frosinone Calcio, who won a lease for the stadium from the local council for 90 years, [3] in order to replace the old municipal stadium.

With a capacity of 16,227, [1] [4] [5] it is the largest stadium found in the province, and the third in Lazio. [6]

It is dedicated to the memory of Benito Stirpe  [ it ], [7] entrepreneur and chairman of Frosinone Calcio in the 1960s, and father of Maurizio Stirpe  [ it ], his successor at the helm of the club. [8] [9]

The total cost of the stadium was approximately €20 million, [10] of which approximately €15 million went to the 2015–2017 construction completion. [3]

Structures and facilities

The Benito Stirpe Stadium comprises 16,227 seats [1] split between five stands: the 'Main Stand', the 'North Stand', the 'East Stand', the 'South Stand' and the 'Away End' (which is the south-west corner).

Frosinone's dressing room at the stadio Benito Stirpe The Frosinone dressing room at the Benito Stirpe stadium.jpg
Frosinone‘s dressing room at the stadio Benito Stirpe

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References

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  2. ↑ "Stadio pronto ma per allenarsi" (in Italian). Ciociaria Oggi. 5 January 1989.
  3. 1 2 "CONCESSIONE DI LAVORI PUBBLICI DI PROGETTAZIONE ED ESECUZIONE DEI LAVORI DI RISTRUTTURAZIONE E COMPLETAMENTO DELLO STADIO CASALENO IN FROSINONE E SUCCESSIVA GESTIONE" (in Italian). Comune di Frosinone. 14 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Stirpe: Frosinone, il nuovo stadio entro febbraio" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 9 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Lo Stadio Benito Stirpe a 360 gradi" (in Italian). Frosinone Calcio. 15 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Sport nella Regione Lazio: Elenco Stadi di Calcio" (in Italian). comuni-italiani.it.
  7. ↑ "Frosinone – Stadio Casaleno intitolato a Stirpe: voto unanime, come è andata e come si chiamerà" (in Italian). tg24.info. 31 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "AMARCORD: Benito Stirpe, il ricordo del Cavaliere che sognava la serie A" (in Italian). tuttofrosinone.com. 29 September 2014.
  9. ↑ "Frosinone, una Stirpe di successo" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 18 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "Stadio Casaleno, progetti depositati" (in Italian). Ciociaria Oggi. 29 September 2016.

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