lucknow a football stadium with floodlights synthetic turf of international standard will be a reality for football fans in lucknow in about two years this will be the first football stadium in up where national and international level matches can be hosted successfully to be constructed at a cost of rs 250 crore the stadium will be at par with famous football stadiums like arsenal football stadium in gothenburg real madrid madrid lords and the london football stadium with capacity of more than 20000 the stadium will be constructed next to the chak ganjaria lucknow international cricket stadium on sultanpur road a team of lucknow development authority lda led by vice chairman satyendra yadav and comprising chief engineer superintending engineers and other officials recently visited famous football stadiums in spain sweden and england and submitted a report to the government with recommendations for the world class football stadium in the city it was recommended that the stadium should have football infrastructure with facilities comparable to arsenal and tele 2 arena which are among the best sports venues of the world facilities like 3tier arena for the audience flood lights corporate boxes and vip galley to be made chief engineer o p mishra told toi in stadiums abroad spaces underneath the ground and stands are utilised for development of infrastructure like parking roads food zones and recreation hence we have recommended the same in our report we have also suggested open community spaces with dustbins to check littering