Roma's attempts to construct a new purpose-built stadium have moved a step closer to becoming reality after the city council approved their plans.
After a full day of meetings and deliberation, the blueprint for a new stadium in the Tor di Valle district, between the city centre and Fiumicino airport, was approved with 29 councillors in favour, eight against and three abstaining from the vote.
There is now only one more hurdle to cross before Roma can announce a request for tender for the works to commence.
They must now present their final plans to the region of Lazio, which has 180 days to give the green light, ask for amendments or reject the proposal.
The Serie A club hope the new 52,500-seater stadium will be ready for the start of the 2017-18 season, if not before. As soon as the region of Lazio gives its consent, work is expected to take between 27 and 30 months from start to finish.
Roma are hoping to follow the example of Juventus, the only other club in Italy's top flight to have constructed their own stadium in recent years. Many venues up and down Italy were renovated or constructed for the 1990 World Cup, but no further work has been carried out in the past 25 years.
Most of those grounds, like Roma's current Stadio Olimpico, are also owned by city councils and rented out to the clubs, who are therefore unable to carry out modernisation work.
Udinese managed to buy their Stadio Friuli from the city council in 2012 and reconstruction work is well underway with the new 25,000-seater venue set to be ready by the end of 2015.
AC Milan are also advancing with their plans to move away from the San Siro and into a new purpose-built stadium with city rivals Inter then hopeful they will be able to purchase their current home and carry out modernisation work there.
Genoa and Sampdoria have also drafted initial plans for new homes while Palermo are also hoping to be given permission to build a new stadium in the near future.
Progress in a sector that had remained static since Italy hosted the World Cup has been facilitated by the abolition of many bureaucratic obstacles by the current Italian government.