The stadium is set to have a 700 seat capacity.

Seating capacity is something the current field at the Loto-Tonga Soka Centre, in the capital Nukualofa, lack much of and would be a big step up in facilities.

The new stadium, looking set to be built where the current Loto-Tonga Soka Centre sits, is to be funded by FIFA, through the FIFA Forward 2 program.

The deadline for engineering companies to deliver their expression of interest and proposals ran out a few days ago, on September 24th.

The list of things the proposals had to include was:

There has yet to be announced a winner for the building project.

UPDATE: The Tonga FA have now responded to our request for a comment. They confirmed that the new stadium will be at the same location and has promised to keep Football in Oceania updated on development on the project.

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