The new South Stand at Meinau Stadium, home of Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace in Alsace, France has been inaugurated.
Architect Populous said that with construction starting in August 2023, the new stand was completed this summer for the resumption of the French Ligue 1 championship.
It was operational to host the first home match of the 2025-2026 season when Racing played Danish club BrØndy IF in the first leg of the UEFA Conference League play-off.
The stand has 21,500 m² of floor space, a height of 47 metres (compared to 26 metres before the renovation), 1 overhang of 52 metres, 6,000 additional seats and new hospitality areas, creating a new experience for the fans, players and officials.
The façade of the South stand represents a world-first, with the 60 of 196 sunshade panels made of upcycled A340 aircraft fuselages already installed, a unique sustainable stadium innovation.
The 27,500-capacity Meinau Stadium is a football stadium in Strasbourg, France. It is the home ground of RC Strasbourg Alsace and has also hosted international matches, including one game of the 1938 World Cup, two games of EURO 1984 and the final of the Union of European Football Association (UEFA) Cup Winners’ Cup in 1988.
The RC Strasbourg Alsace is a French association football club founded in 1906, based in the City of Strasbourg, Alsace, France. It is currently playing in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football, ever since winning the 2016-2017 Ligue 2 championship.
The renovation continues with the work currently underway on the North Stand, to be completed in November.
The FanZone, already partially in operation with the central canopy and pavilion that house the new megastore and the future Sport Bar, will be completed in April 2026 with the entrance pavilion and its new stage.
Populous Senior Principal and leader of the Meinau project, François Clément spoke at the inauguration of the stand.
He joined guests that included architecture partner Olivier de Crécy, the Ville et Eurométropole de Strasbourg, represented by its President Pia Imbs, Jeanne Barseghian, Mayor of Strasbourg, Frédéric Bierry, President of the Collectivité européenne d’Alsace, Franck Leroy, President of the Région Grand Est, and Keller Marc, President of the Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace.
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