TURKMENISTAN - Stadium and Arena Development News

Aşgabat Stadiony , 20,000 , 2011

adyndaky Olimpiýa Stadiony , 35,000 , 2003

Köpetdag Stadium , 26,000

Ashkhabad Olimpic Stadiony (design)

Venues for 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat

Progress work at the Olympic complex park for the Ashgabat 2017 Asian Games

Stadiums in Turkmenistan




Balkanabat Stadium







Olympic Stadium Ashgabat


Dashoguz Stadium project

Winter Sports Complex Ashgabat
Broke ground: 2009
Opened: 2011
Construction cost: €134.4 million
Capacity: 10,000

A future (but futile obviously) Winter Olympics bid?

There's mountains near Ashgabat, but do they receive enough snow? Are there even existing ski resorts? Do they have a mountain with 800 m vertical? Naturally, if undeveloped they can develop such things.

You got all the arenas there:
Winter Sports Complex - 10,000 - Ice Hockey I
15,000 Seater Arena - 15,000 - Figure skating/Short Track
5,000 Seater Arena - Curling
Velodrome - 6,000 - Ice Hockey II

Any one of the city's new stadiums with an athletics track could be modified to become indoor and house a temporary speed skating oval.

As for accommodation, you could say give a figure of less than 5,000 rooms currently, with an additional 12,000 or so rooms with that new athlete accommodation and other serviced apartments. Then you fill the rest with proposed accommodation, universities and the like.

A long shot to win obviously, but given all this "needless" development, surely you would want to avoid white elephants by trying to get other major sporting events too. Maybe an Asian Winter Games would be a good start.

Ice Palace Ashgabat 1000 Seater Arena

International Equestrian Sports Complex. Ruhabat District, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan.
The complex was opened on 29 October 2011, at a cost of project is $100 million USD.