Stadium db.com presents Stadium of the Year 2023 Arena mrv 35 stadiums entered the competition but there can be only one winner and that is Arena MV the striped venue in Bella Horizon was voted for by the most people making Brazilians the winners of the stadiums and fans competition 12,073 of you contributed to this year's results Arena of Athletico Monero with 25,5 points was slightly ahead of Germany's BB Bank buar which finished in second place with more than 3,000 points behind Brazilian facility further down the ran kings were two polish venues arelo m park in sovet and or stadion in P both of these stadiums belong to clubs in the second tier of competition in Poland you can find out all the four results on our website stadium.com now let's take a closer look at the facility that from now on can boast the title of the best Stadium of [Music] 2023 brand new private stadium of Atletico Mino is located in Western Bell Horizon in the California District it was Brazil's first plant metropolis and was built in 1897 Bella Horizon like like many other cities in Brazil is completely surrounded by forests and mountains its name means beautiful Horizon in English and we can agree on it the club acquired a lucrative plot of land for the venue from mrv and gharia placed beside a major Avenue and near the Ring Road connection it's not an ideal location due to high slope but possibly the best available Athletico has not played at its home ground since 1950 when the club left its estagio presiden Antonio Carlos in favor of playing in a new Stadium built for the 1950 World Cup Arena inde dependencia later Atletico also played at Minon Stadium which opened in 1965 the old estagio president Antonio Carlos had remained unused since 1950 and in the 1990s a shopping center was built in its place it became a source of significant revenue for for the club and in due course the sale of shares allowed the construction of Arena mrv inspired by clap collars alvinegro white black stripes the new Arena comes as the first Stadium ever designed by Bernando FAS fley local architect who is an Ardent supporter of Gallow before designing he visited numerous stadiums in Brazil and Europe his praise of aliance Arena seems quite visible when it comes to mrv Arena though it's still an original building the covering is divided into two kinds of vertical segments lighter and darker they vary in translucency but regardless of the lighting and whether someone is inside or outside the venue there is always an impression of alvinegro [Music] mix [Music] the capacity of stance has been changing a couple of times the initial plans suggested 50,000 or more seats later the Stadium's capacity forus was set to be 41,800 eventually the executives set the capacity to be prepared for 46,000 people it places the arena among the 10 largest stadiums in the country and makes it the sixth largest private Brazilian Stadium for the fans it is possible to get to The Stadium from different levels on the west side where a large public Plaza is located access is possible from field level meanwhile on the east side fans are able to approach the facility at the height of the middle tier the venue and the joint building offer Brazil's largest on-site parking 4,600 cars Cloud Museum and mega store known as Atletico or Atletico Monero and commonly as gallow the team that performs at the stadium is the largest and oldest professional football club based in the capital city of Brazilian state of Minas Jer the team completes in the Campion brazo Sera the first level of Brazilian football as well as the cion Mino the top tier State League of Min Jer Atletico is the largest and oldest active football club in Minas founded on March 25th 1908 by 22 students from Bella [Music] Horizon [Music] what does the stadium offer and what was the effort involved in its construction the project has already been planned since 2016 as the first giant venue since the 2014 World Cup the moment Athletico Monero gets an exclusive stadium is finally there anyway arena mrv is the largest stadium owned by a football club in the state to fund the project which had an initial estimated cost of 410 million rails the club sold 50.1% of its stake in Diamond mall shopping center for 250 million R also as part of the agreement mrv acquired the naming rights of the future arena for 60 million for a period of 10 years with the possibility of extension the club sought to receive 100 million for the sale of club seats and luxury suits with 60% guaranteed by the Banco BMG Bank when work reached the halfway point cost estimates indicated that the total expense would be about 700 million R nevertheless Bruno Muti atletico's general manager gave less positive news he has mentioned a figure of 950 this is how many million reals the club paid in total to carry out the construction of the facility a new stadium located in the country where people leave and breathe fball is impressive and for sure some top clubs in Europe would be proud of such event venue and finally in your opinion W Arena MV deservedly voted the best Stadium built in 2023 write in the comments and that's it for the competition which will of course return next year make sure to subscribe to our channel so you don't miss out on future videos and check out our other content see you [Music] there