The stadium is located to the end eastern edge of the site and placed on an elevated podium, freeing a central public square between the football and athletics districts. The compact rectangular bowl is partly embedded, while an independent faceted structure of triangular surfaces and expanded metal mesh forms the outer envelope. In the survey area, the sports buildings are arranged around a central sequence of plazas and landscape spaces connecting Maksimirska Street with the Borongaj transport hub.

In the third round, the jury eliminated projects that were well developed but generic, hermetic in their relationship with public space, insufficiently resolved in structural terms, financially demanding or unable to express the primary programme clearly.

A large proportion of the proposals offered a well-articulated but insufficiently specific response to the site and its legacy. A project that retained parts of the existing structure was considered particularly interesting, but this approach was not feasible because the structure had to be demolished due to identified structural deficiencies.