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| tenants = [[Unione Rugby Capitolina|Capitolina]]<br />Marines Lazio Football<br/>[[Italy national rugby union team]] (2000–2011)<br/ >[[S.S. Lazio]] (1989-1990)<br/ >[[A.S. Roma]] (1989-1990)

[[Pier Luigi Nervi]] designed the Flaminio Stadium with his son, the architect Antonio Nervi, between 1957 and 1958. The structure was built for the XVII Olympic Games in Rome (1960) and inaugurated in 1959. The Stadio Flaminio was built on the site of the previous [[Stadio Nazionale PNF]]. It was mostly devoted to [[Association football|football]] matches and served as the venue for the [[Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics|football]] final in the [[1960 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad |title=The XVII Olympiad |url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v1.pdf |website=web.archive.org |accessdateaccess-date=20 August 2011 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919201820/http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v1.pdf |archivedatearchive-date=19 September 2018 |location=Rome |pages=58, 60 |language=en |date=1960 |url-status=dead |volume=1}}</ref>

This stadium is a remarkable example of different ways to use concrete: in situ castings, prefabricated elements, undulating slabs of ferrocement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lo Stadio Flaminio di Pier Luigi e Antonio Nervi a Roma: un piano di conservazione interdisciplinare |website=stadioflaminio.org |url=http://stadioflaminio.org/index.php#stadio-flaminio |accessdateaccess-date=31 July 2017 |language=it, en |trans-title=[http://stadioflaminio.org/index.php?lg=en#stadio-flaminio The Flaminio Stadium by Pier Luigi and Antonio Nervi in Rome: an interdisciplinary conservation plan]}}</ref> The Flaminio Stadium is a unique work that offers a highly original union between form and structure and between architecture and engineering. It testifies to a special and internationally recognised period for Italian architectural culture, characterised by a highly fertile relationship between different disciplines. The project also frames a unique moment in the work of Pier Luigi Nervi, unanimously recognised as the most ingenious Italian engineer and a pioneer of the study and use of reinforced concrete.

In July 2017, with the cooperation of the Municipality of Rome, Sapienza University, [http://www.pierluiginervi.org Pier Luigi Nervi Project Association] and [http://www.docomomoitalia.it/keeping-it-modern-getty-foundation-docomomo-italia-per-lo-stadio-flaminio-di-nervi/ DO.CO.MO.MO. Italy] received a grant from the Getty Foundation and its [http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/keeping_it_modern/grants_awarded_2017.html Keeping ifit Modern program] to [http://www.stadioflaminio.org/#keeping-it-modern prepare a conservation plan for the Stadio Flaminio].<ref>{{cite web |title=Keeping It Modern: Grants Awarded 2017 (Getty Foundation) |url=http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/keeping_it_modern/grants_awarded_2017.html |website=www.getty.edu |publisher=The Getty Foundation |accessdateaccess-date=31 July 2017}}</ref>

[[Pink Floyd]] performed two concerts on 11 and 12 July 1988 during their [[A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour]].
U2 performed there in 1987 in front of 45 000 fans.

[[Bruce Springsteen]] played 2two sellout concerts in June 1988 both concerts inwas attended by a frontcrowd of 40 ,000 PeopleFans at a total of 80 ,000 people for his [[Tunnel of Love Express Tour|Tunnel of Love express tour]] having opened his European tour in Turin in front of 65 000 people with one concert at Stadio Communale.

The [[Italian Rugby Federation]] (FIR) announced, in January 2010, that the stadium would undergo an expansion, that will increase its capacity to 42,000, before the 2012 Six Nations Championship.<ref name="upgrade">{{cite news |title=Stadio Flaminio set for re-vamp |url=http://www.scrum.com/scrum/rugby/story/108729.html |publisher=Scrum.com |date=30 January 2010|accessdateaccess-date=21 August 2010}}</ref> A failure to progress these plans has been cited as the reason for moving Italy's home Six Nations games from 2012.<ref name=BBC/> With a capacity of 32,000 (8,000 covered), it was the smallest of the Six Nations stadiums. It is no longer considered big enough for the Italian national team and there were frequent reports<ref name="upgrade" /> that the national team would move to [[Genoa]] or to the [[Stadio Olimpico|Stadio Olimpico di Roma]]. This change was confirmed with the [[Italian Rugby Federation]] (FIR) becoming upset at broken promises of renovations. It was initially reported that the FIR would move Six Nations matches to [[Stadio Artemio Franchi (Florence)|Stadio Artemio Franchi]] in [[Florence]].<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/12941136 |website=bbc.com |title=Italy to move Six Nations games from Rome to Florence |author=Rugby Union |publisher=BBC Sport |date=1 April 2011|accessdateaccess-date=2 April 2011}}</ref> However, when the city finally began the promised renovations, FIR announced that it would instead keep its Six Nations home fixtures in Rome at Stadio Olimpico,<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.federugby.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3112:rbs-6-nazioni-allo-stadio-olimpico-ledizione-2012&catid=109:italia&Itemid=415 |title=RBS 6 Nazioni, allo Stadio Olimpico l'Edizione 2012 |publisher=[[Italian Rugby Federation]] |language=it |date=13 July 2011|accessdateaccess-date=10 August 2011 |author=Nazionali Azzurre}}</ref> and that it would return to the Flaminio once the project is completed.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/italy/19060.php |title=Italy switch stadium to Stadio Olimpico |author=Sportsbeat |work=RBS 6 Nations |date=14 July 2011 |accessdateaccess-date=6 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913191323/http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/italy/19060.php |archivedatearchive-date=13 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The stadium was originally slated to become the home of Praetorians Roma, a newly formed team that would be one of Italy's two representatives in the [[Pro14|Celtic League]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/8157723.stm |title=Italians pick Celtic League teams |publisher=BBC Sport |date=18 July 2009 |accessdateaccess-date=18 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201220144/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/8157723.stm |archive-date= 1 December 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, it was later decided that [[Benetton Rugby|Benetton Treviso]] would replace Praetorians.<ref>{{cite web |author1=giane |title=Il Veneto in Celtic League, Roma fuori  /  Rugby Veneto |url=http://www.rugbyveneto.org/wordpress/il-veneto-in-celtic-league-roma-fuori.html |website=www.rugbyveneto.org |accessdateaccess-date=21 August 2009 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924001719/http://www.rugbyveneto.org/wordpress/il-veneto-in-celtic-league-roma-fuori.html |archivedatearchive-date=24 September 2017 |language=it |date=2 October 2009}}</ref>

In [[1989–90 Serie A|1989–90]] season both [[AS Roma|Roma]] and [[SS Lazio|Lazio]] played at Stadio Flaminio during the renovations of Stadio Olimpico.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stadio Flaminio {{!}} Tutte le informazioni sullo Stadio Flaminio |url=http://www.stadiodi.it/flaminio-roma |website=www.stadiodi.it |accessdateaccess-date=20 August 2011 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831143358/http://www.stadiodi.it/flaminio-roma |archivedatearchive-date=31 August 2011 |language=it |url-status=dead}}</ref> Stadio Flaminio was also the home of [[Atletico Roma F.C.]], an association football club who played in [[Lega Pro Prima Divisione]], but were dissolved in 2011. In 2021, Italian newspaper ''[[Leggo]]'' reported that Lazio president [[Claudio Lotito]] had made an 'important and serious proposal' to increase the capacity of the stadium to 40,000 and to return the club to the stadium on a permanent basis.<ref>{{cite web|title=Roma. Stadio Flaminio alla Lazio, il Comune conferma: "Lotito lo vuole"|url=https://www.leggo.it/italia/roma/lazio_stadio_flaminio_comune_conferma-6036213.html|first=Enrico|last=Sarzanini|date=23 June 2021|website=Leggo|access-date=25 June 2021|language=it}}</ref>

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