FAI Endorse Sligo Rovers' Plans To Develop Existing Stadium.

Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:32

The Bit O' Red play their home games at The Showgrounds.

The F-A-I has endorsed Sligo Rovers plans to redevelop the existing stadium at the Showgrounds.

The Premier Division club have published plans that include turning their home into a six-thousand seater stadium.

The #bitored today publish a Masterplan, detailing a planned redevelopment to make The Showgrounds a 6,000-seater stadium with a new business plaza and creation of a new academy for the club in County Sligo.

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— Sligo Rovers (@sligorovers) May 18, 2021

The club - where current Irish captain Seamus Coleman played for three seasons - also plan to build an academy complex.

The estimated cost of the project is 17.3 million euro and project and club chairman Tommy Higgins believes it can get underway soon.

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