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Amakhosi Stadium is the planned future home venue of South African football (soccer) club Kaizer Chiefs. The new stadium, will be part of a greater sports precinct being developed in Krugersdorp, roughly 40 km West from the central part of Johannesburg. Initially the sports precinct was planned not only to host Kaizer Chiefs and the Kaizer Chiefs Youth Development Programme, but also to include a: cricket field, rugby stadium, sports hotel, and a retail shopping centre. The construction of the stadium was planned to start already in September 2006, with a total cost of R695 million. In fall 2006 the project became upgraded to cost R1.2 billion (£105 million), due to demands from Kaizer Chiefs, for the stadium to comply with FIFA standards. Due to problems with financial funding, the construction however did not start until September 2010. Kaizer Chiefs announced in August 2010, that the project had been redesigned, to make it cheaper and possible to fund, so that construction work could start in September 2010, and be finalized in August 2012. If the revised plan from April 2010 was approved by Kaizer Chiefs, the new stadium will have a price tag of R700 million, and the capacity will now be reduced from 55,000 to 35,000 seats. Currently the exact details and status for the project, is unknown. ==Construction plans== The idea to construct the stadium was born already in 2003, when the Mogale City Municipality first announced a plan to renovate the Bob van Reenen Stadium in Krugersdorp.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chiefs’ stadium: announcement soon )〕 During the past years, the Kaizer Chiefs F.C. had used no less than 9 stadiums in Johannesburg as their home venue, and they now wanted to settle down with a new permanent home venue. Thus, an agreement was reached with Mogale City Municipality, to cancel the initial renovation plan, and instead pursue the construction of a new big stadium on the site, to be used as the home venue of Kaizer Chiefs. As the team is nicknamed the Amakhosi, and because Kaizer Chiefs initially also offered to be one of the shareholders to fund the construction costs, the planned project was named Amakhosi Stadium. The property development company Lefika Emerging Equity (represented by CEO Bobby Motaung, who also work as the manager of Kaizer Chiefs), started in March 2006 to pay Mogale City Municipality for a 90-year-long leasing contract of the stadium ground. In August 2006, an official stadium construction plan was announced, with Kaizer Chiefs, Mogale City Municipality, and Lefika Emerging Equity, mentioned as joint shareholders. This first official construction plan, had scheduled the new stadiums completion date for December 2008, at a total cost of R695 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Development of Kaizer Chiefs' R695m new home ground to begin next month )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amakhosi Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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