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The Krestovsky Stadium (Russian: Стадион «Кpестовский»), also called Zenit Arena, is a football stadium in the western portion of Krestovsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The stadium was planned to be completed by December 2008, which was changed to late 2011. It is now proposed that the stadium is scheduled to open in 2017.  It will be called Saint Petersburg Stadium during the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The competition between architectural project was won by Kisho Kurokawa's "The Spaceship". The design of the stadium is a modified and enlarged version of Toyota Stadium in Toyota City, Japan, which was also designed by Kurokawa. 

The stadium will have a capacity of 68,134 people.

Getting there 

The distance from the stadium to the historical centre of the city is approximately 8 km. A new sports facility won’t change a well-established panorama in the historical development area.

By the 2018 World Football Championship construction of a new metro station Novokrestovkaya, new pedestrian bridge and a yacht club with a jetty for public water transport is planned near the arena.