On Saturday, Golazo reported that work on Dâmbovița Arena, the stadium under construction in Târgoviște, had stalled and that the government had approved a fresh top-up. The act is Decision no. 969 of 12 November 2026, published in Official Gazette no. 948 of 13 November. It reapproves the indicators for “Construction of a stadium, Târgoviște municipality, Dâmbovița county”, carried out through the National Investment Company.

In the annex, the total value, including VAT, is 425.195 million lei, in prices at 31 July 2025, at 5.0764 lei to the euro. At that rate the sum is about 83.8 million euro. Of the total, 366.699 million lei sit with the ministry, through the company, and 58.496 million with Dâmbovița county. Still to be built: 234.142 million lei. The full construction period is 42 months, of which 13 months remain. Golazo rounds the new total as “over 80 million euro” and headlines an extra of more than 14 million. The annex figure is the one in lei.

Golazo says the site started in September 2023, with a 36-month term, so this autumn, and a budget of 271 million lei, about 50 million euro at the rate then. In the same article’s figures box, that sum is listed as about 55 million. The paper says the investment first reached about 66 million euro and only then passed 80. Gazeta Sporturilor, on the same story, gives the previous valuation as 348.48 million lei and physical progress at about 65 percent, and says the first deadline was July 2026. Those are each newsroom’s estimates, not a line in the decision.

For the delay, Golazo lists interior finishes, missing fittings, the training pitch and changes to some access roads. On the roads, the paper writes that they led toward a nearby military unit, the place where Nicolae Ceaușescu was shot in December 1989. The access-road explanation is the paper’s, not the annex’s.

The address in the decision is Târgoviște, Regele Ferdinand Boulevard no. 11, formerly Regele Carol Boulevard no. 51. During the works the beneficiary is the National Investment Company. After completion, Dâmbovița county. The money comes from the state budget, through the Development Ministry, from the county budget and from other legal sources, within the sums approved each year.

The annex also gives the developed floor area, 36,559.80 square metres, and the height: basement, ground floor and three storeys. Golazo adds, in its own list, 12,402 seats, an athletics track, more than 500 parking spaces, 165 press seats and 75 seats for disabled people, plus 75 for companions. The seat count is not in the annex extract used here.

Golazo writes that, as of its 14 November piece, Chindia Târgoviște led Liga 2 with 30 points from 13 rounds, under Leo Grozavu. If they go up, home games would stay at the Eugen Popescu stadium until the new arena is ready. Gazeta Sporturilor says Eugen Popescu, in its present form, opened in 2023 and cost 15 million euro, and that the city would have two working stadiums by 2028. Promotion is not decided.

The photograph shows the Chindia Tower, in the princely court at Târgoviște. The author is Nicubunu, and the image is on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. It is not the Dâmbovița Arena site, and it is not the Eugen Popescu stadium.

Source consulted: Peste 14 milioane de euro în plus. Noul stadion din România va fi gata abia la finalul anului 2027.