Stade Océane

• Le Havre AC

• Games of Le Havre AC

The Stade Océane is a football and rugby stadium in the French city of Le Havre. It can accommodate 25 178 spectators and is the club Le Havre AC as homestead. The cost of construction of the Stade Océane of 80 million euros to share between the Communauté d' agglomà havraise ( € 47.5 million ), the region of Haute -Normandie ( € 25 million), the département of Seine -Maritime ( € 7 million) and the French State ( € 0.5 million).

History

The Stade Océane in Le Havre, the largest city by population considered Normandy and at the same time the city with the second largest French port, was built two years in the years 2010 to 2012. Took place on July 12, 2012, exactly two years after construction starts, the opening with a friendly match between the future users club, the football club Le Havre AC, and the OSC Lille. The game was won by the first division and champions of 2011 from Lille 2-1.

Since the summer of 2012 Le Havre AC directed its home games now from the new Stade Océane. The club currently plays in the Ligue 2 second-rate, but may refer to a number of years in the highest French league in football. A total of three times, the club could win the title of French football champion, the last such success is dated from 1919. 1959 was celebrated with the Cup victory to date last great success. To date the last time Le Havre AC was first class in the 2008 /09 season represented, but since you can find the traditional club nurmehr in Ligue 2, where in the past season (2011 /12) with rank fifteen descending into the low ranks only relatively scarce was missed.

Since in the club environment quite exist ambitions to play first-class again in the near future, the club's management decided in 2009 to build a new stadium, with the first plans in this direction came in 2004. The new venue should be the getting on in years Stade Jules Deschaseaux, venue was at the soccer World Cup in 1938 and for a long time home stadium of Le Havre AC, but that last offered nurmehr place for good 16,000 people and therefore not optimal for the claims of the association, replace it. The construction of the new arena began on July 12, 2010. Two years later, the new stadium of Le Havre was done with the Stade Océane. It is currently the largest sports venue is in Normandy and also exceeds the capacity of the previously largest of Normandy, the stadium of SM Caen, Stade Michel d'Ornano to about 4,000 places.

Since the opening of the sports facility an international match of the French national football team was held here. On August 15, 2012, the Equipe Tricolore receiving the national team of Uruguay in a friendly match that ended in front of 25,000 spectators at the Stade Océane Le Havre with a goalless draw. In addition to events in football, the Stade Océane is also home to rugby games. A crowd of over 11,000 Stade Français beat in the European Cup in 2012/13 also the French enemies of FC Grenoble with 28:25. Furthermore, can be discharged at the Stade Océane other spectacle, such as concerts. In this case, the capacity of the arena increased to 33,000 spectators.

For the Mehrfachnutzunng the pitch was a natural grass surface in the, by machine, 20 million artificial grass fibers have been 20 inches deep into the ground. The roots of the natural greens grown with time with synthetics and the playing field is more resistant to heavy use. The bright blue outer shell of the sports arena consists of a 0.25 mm thick ETFE film, as it was used among others for the outer skin of the Allianz Arena in Munich. On the roof, solar panels are installed with an area of ​​1,500 m2.

Internationals

• . 7788639057515 Aug. 2012: France - Uruguay Uruguay 0-0 (Friendly Match)

Gallery

More Exterior

The stadium during the day

Pictures of the construction work