Talanta Stadium Enters Final Phase as Kenya Races Toward AFCON 2027 Deadline

Walk past Jamhuri Grounds in Nairobi right now and you’ll see it — a 60,000-seat giant taking shape.

The superstructure is up. Steel, concrete, framework — all done. What’s left is the finishing: seats going in, floodlights being mounted, broadcast cables being laid, ICT systems being wired up. The kind of work that turns a building into a football stadium.

PS Raymond Omollo put it plainly. “The project is in its final construction phase, with works focusing on seat installation, broadcast systems, lighting.”

And it’s not just a big box. The exterior takes its look from Kenya’s national emblem. There’s a computerized hydraulic cable tension system — rare technology globally. Rainwater gets harvested and used to water the pitch. VAR suites are built in. Changing rooms meet international standards.

CAF inspectors arrive in August. That’s the deadline that matters. Miss it, and co-hosting AFCON 2027 gets a lot more complicated.