Tag: France


Orange Vélodrome in France up for grabs

Marseille Stade Velodrome for sale

Marseille (France) Mayor Benoît Payan, in a Facebook live session, has revealed that he wants to sell the Stade Vélodrome which serves as the residence of Ligue 1 football club Olympique de Marseille. The 67,394-capacity Stade Vélodrome, known as the Orange Vélodrome for sponsorship reasons, is... » Read more


French club’s hunt for stadium site ends

France Montpellier new stadium site

French Ligue 1 football club Montpellier has confirmed that a brand-new stadium – Stade Louis-Nicollin – which will be able to hold 25,000 spectators will come up on the southern outskirts of Montpellier (France) on the Ode à la Mer site in Pérols. Montpellier has targeted the end of... » Read more


Sustainability key mantra of Paris 2024 arena

Paris Arena Porte de la Chapelle

A consortium led by the construction engineering company Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France has been chosen by the City of Paris (France) for the design, construction and technical operation of the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, which will stage badminton, para taekwondo and para badminton at the Paris... » Read more


Toulouse misses Paris 2024 host cities’ bus

Paris 2024 soccer venues announced

Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Etienne will join France capital Paris for the 2024 Olympics as host cities for the men’s and women’s football tournaments at the Games. This information was given by the organizing committee for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Toulouse (France) had... » Read more


OL Vallée cherry on France tourism cake

France Olympique Lyon leisure center

OL Vallée is a massive project of the Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais the design of which was conceived when the Groupama Stadium (France) opened in 2016. Spread over a 50 ha site, it is all set to become a sports center of excellence and is scheduled to go on stream in 2024. The new complex will... » Read more


France venues sans fans as COVID badgers

France games still behind closed doors Nov 2020

An announcement has been made by the French Presidency that fans will not be allowed to return to sports venues this year, and when they will return to the stadium fold it will be subject to strict limits based on a stadium or arena’s size. President of France Emmanuel Macron led a conference... » Read more


‘The Red Star’ new venue plans pigeonholed

Paris Red Star stadium renovation

Plans for a new arena have been formally shelved by the French football club Red Star F.C. of Paris (France). Instead, the club has decided to revamp its residence Stade Bauer in partnership with the French development group Réalités. Red Star Football Club is a French association football club... » Read more


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