The Venice returns to Serie A. After failing to gain direct promotion, the team coached by Vanoli triumphs in the playoffs, beating the team in the final Cremonese of Stroppa. An exciting season for the lagoon players, who return to the top league with the desire to stay there and not just be an extra. On its side, Venezia can count on strong and serious ownership, with Duncan Niederauer who in recent weeks confirmed the arrival of new investors, dismissing the hypothesis of the Cerberus Fund, which was supposed to purchase 40% of the club:
“A new group of private investors is arriving, exactly like the people who are already part of this company. It will hardly be an investment fund. It is perhaps a different way of entering from what we had initially hypothesized, but I feel comfortable say that the difference between having private investors and having a fund is that private investors are people who also have a very important aspect because there is passion and a true, real and heartfelt interest. While the funds look at the the numbers and statistics aspect. Between six and eight private investors will enter in place of the fund and will purchase 40% of the shares, while the rest will remain in the hands of the current owners where eight out of ten investors will remain”.
“Sport Forest” project
Venezia’s ambition also involves the creation of the ‘Bosco dello Sport’ where the Venezia stadium and the Reyer sports hall will be built in the future, as well as other buildings surrounded by greenery. Work began at the beginning of April and by the end of 2026 Venezia will have a stadium with 10,000 seats, as well as an arena-palace for 10,000 spectators, areas for free sporting activities, all immersed in a green area with 100,000 new trees. All connected to the road system and the railway link under construction that will lead to Marco Polo airport: an infrastructure also linked to sport and connected to the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
