Stade Pierre-Mauroy
- OSC Lille
- European Football Championship 2016
- Rugby
- Concerts
The Stade Pierre- Mauroy (until June 2013: Grand Stade Lille Métropole ) is a football stadium in Villeneuve d'Ascq in the metropolitan area of Lille ( LMCU ), France, and home to the OSC Lille. It is named after Pierre Mauroy, nearly three decades mayor of the city of Lille. The 2012 sports facility is inaugurated with a closable roof, as it has the Veltins- Arena in Gelsenkirchen, equipped. The architectural firm Valode & Pistre and the architect Pierre Ferret designed the sports facility. It is intended as one of currently ten venues for the European football championship in 2016.
History
As early as the late 1990s there were plans to build a new stadium. After the end of December 2005 finally failed plan to build a successor to the Stade Grimonprez - Jooris in Lille, was looking for a new space to build. In April 2006, it chose the location Borne de l' espoir in the district Hôtel de Ville of Villeneuve d'Ascq. First, the construction project was also named Stade Borne de l' espoir. After the planning and preliminary work was signed by the Mayor Gérard Caudron, Villeneuve d'Ascq, and Mark Godfrey, Lezennes, on 17 December 2009, the building permit for the new arena. On 26 March 2010 started the construction work and the symbolic foundation stone was laid on 27 September 2010 in front of 500 guests.
In addition to the schließbarem roof the stadium holds a peculiarity. The northern part of the playing field can be boot up and move on the south side of the square. Under the shifted side of the field then is an event arena with additional bleachers for concerts, basketball and handball games or other events. In this design can accommodate up to 29,500 visitors, in the small arena. The spectator capacity at football and rugby games is 50 186 seats (lower 20,176 seats, Central rank 7,302 seats, 22,708 upper level seats), including 500 spaces for disabled visitors. For European Football Championship in 2016 drops for safety reasons and because of the increased needs in the press box, the capacity to approximately 48,000 visitors.
The stadium project alone involved a budget of € 282 million. In addition, cost of 42 million for other adjacent buildings such as hotel, restaurants, etc. The costs were applied to 56 % from private sources such as sponsorship, paid 44% of the metropolitan area of Lille and Nord -Pas -de -Calais.
On 5 October 2011, the steel beam roof structure of the closable roof was raised and mounted. It has a length of 205 meters and a width of 110 meters. With a height of 16.25 meters, the roof panel weighs 7,400 tons. The four hydraulic jacks lifted the roof about three meters per hour and the installation took a total of about two days.
The pre-sale for tickets Lille OSC of the 2012/13 season began on November 17, 2011., On 17 August 2012 and was in line with the original schedule, the new home of the LOSC opened its doors for the first league match against AS Nancy. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. The renamed Stade Pierre- Mauroy in June, 2013, two weeks after the death of its namesake.
Gallery
March 2011