Como have obtained the inexperienced mild from UEFA to host Champions League matches at their Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium following three months of main renovation.
Cesc Fabregas guided Como into the Champions League for the primary time of their historical past final season through a fourth-placed end in Serie A.
However off the pitch the membership’s infrastructure was less than UEFA’s required commonplace for the Champions League and Sassuolo’s stadium had been mooted as a possible different to host video games in Europe’s premier membership competitors.
Como have spent the previous three months overhauling services at Sinigaglia and Every day Mail Sport understands UEFA officers have now authorised the stadium’s internet hosting rights this season, with Manchester United amongst these able to make the journey.
The Serie A aspect host Michael Carrick’s United aspect within the league part, in addition to welcoming European champions Paris Saint-Germain, whereas RB Leipzig and AEK Athens may also journey to Como.
Manchester United are ready to find the place their match with Como will by performed
In depth work started on Como’s stadium as quickly as the ultimate whistle blew after their final house sport of the 2025-26 season given the race in opposition to time forward of them.
One stand – which was initially constructed as a short lived stand forward of the 2002-03 season— behind the aim was completely demolished because it didn’t meet UEFA requirements. A brand new concrete stand with strong foundations is now instead.
A brand new pitch has been laid and prolonged by two-and-a-half metres, whereas the gamers’ tunnel, in addition to the substitutes’ benches have been relocated.
Vital work has been undertaken to enhance dressing rooms in addition to media services, too, with a brand new combined zone, TV studio and press room.
Como hope to get the inexperienced mild to host matches on the Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium after three months of upgrades
UEFA require important house for tv broadcasters and media services whereas Como have glad the necessity to add a further 150 parking areas by teaming up with a neighborhood school.
Final week, native authorities and the fireplace division inspected the development works and ratified it from a security standpoint, a key step of their hopes of internet hosting Champions League matches at their house.
Now the membership can breathe a sigh of aid after receiving affirmation from UEFA that they’ll host matches at their house on the shores of Lake Como.
Como started renovating instantly after Cesc Fabregas guided the membership to Champions League qualification
‘It’s a surreal expertise. We had been in Serie D simply seven years in the past; now we’re in Serie A and within the Champions League,’ Como President Mirwan Suwarso informed Sky Sport Italia.
‘We are able to’t imagine it. For us, it’s crucial simply to be right here. We predict daily. We’ll strive our greatest and benefit from the second.
‘We are able to solely do our greatest; outcomes will say the remaining. A very powerful factor for us is to take pleasure in.
‘For as a lot as we wish to say we’d wish to expertise it once more, we should not take it as a right; maybe tomorrow we received’t be right here.’
