Article by Andrei Crăiţoiu – Published Friday, June 12, 2026, 2:16 p.m. / Updated Friday, June 12, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
A light rain falls on Ștefan cel Mare Road on a gloomy Friday in June. The wind whips through the covered fences, and the trees that survived the demolitions lean on all sides. Beyond the fenced gates with massive padlocks, the construction site is abandoned and the workers have taken their tools and gone home.
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No sign of workers. No machine noise. Not even a movement.
The construction site of the new Dinamo stadium seems completely abandoned. Only the guard at the main gate is happy when someone gives him five or ten lei to leave his car at the entrance to the construction site. And so it doesn't confuse anyone.
Where engines, excavators and bulldozers should have been heard, only huge piles of rubble remained.
PHOTO GALLERY. What the Dinamo stadium looks like, abandoned by the workers
The football field, freed from the stands and forgotten by the builders, is beginning to be conquered by nature.
Blades of grass have sprouted again on the surface that should become, in a few years, the home of one of the most important teams in Romania.
The image is hard to associate with a project estimated at over 117 million euros.
In the nearly gone stands, a few stray seats still stand. It's like they're also waiting for the final verdict.
Pieces of the old nocturnal lie scattered among the rubble. The metal structure has been almost completely grounded, but the entire complex seems frozen in a suspended moment.
Bureaucratic chaos, posters, ANAF and Nicolae Badea
Even stranger is the image of the former official tribune. “Tribune” is a generous term, however. A makeshift scaffolding, used in recent years by stockholders and guests, remained standing.
Rusted, battered by rain and wind, it cannot be demolished for now.
ANAF, the institution that has approximately 1.5 million lei to recover, opposed the demolition, and Nicolae Badea's court problems are another nail in the “dogs” arena disaster.
Dynamo fans accuse the authorities of making a mockery of a project that has been expected for years.
The revolt is all the greater as Dinamo remained the only important team from Bucharest without its own stadium. Rapid plays in Giulesti, and FCSB divides its matches between the Steaua Stadium and the National Arena.
For the new season, even the Dynamo players had no other solution. The club has already approved two stadiums for playing home games: the Arc de Triumf and the National Arena.
What will happen to the stadium, nobody knows anything
The representatives of the club claim that the works are blocked because not all the necessary approvals have been completed following the technical expertise carried out for the buildings in the immediate vicinity of the construction site.
On paper, the plans look spectacular. The new Dinamo Arena would have 26,217 seats and become one of the most modern sports bases in Romania. The estimated costs amount to approximately 117 million euros, and the official completion date is 2029.
But looking at the images from the site, among the rubble, rust and grass growing unhindered on the former playing field, the term seems more like a promise than a certainty.
What the new Dinamo stadium will look like
For now, nothing is being built in Stefan the Great. And no one comes forward to explain why. Only the general director of the National Investment Company, Manuela Pătrășcoiu, included the stadium among the most important ongoing projects.
In progress, but on hiatus for months…
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