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Is the Arena Civica the oldest stadium in modern football?

The Tim Traveller travelled to Milan to visit the Arena Civica (officially Arena Gianni Brera) and ask a question: is this the oldest stadium in modern professional football? But before you get ready to Well Actually in the comments, Tim explains the criteria for deciding which stadium is the oldest and more about Arena Civica’s rich history.

I’d never heard of the stadium, nor the fact that the national team and Inter Milan played here for a number of years before getting their own stadiums. And we all have Napoleon to thank. Yeah, that Napoleon.1

  1. In fact, the stadium’s original name was Arena del Foro Bonaparte (source) ↩︎

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