Stade Gaston Gérard

Stade Gaston Gérard
Stade Gaston Gérard in Dijon in March 2012
Earlier names
Parc des Sports (until 1969)
Data
place	Dijon , France
Coordinates	47 ° 19 '27 "  N , 5 ° 4' 5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '27 "  N , 5 ° 4' 5"  E
owner	City of Dijon
opening	1934
Renovations	1990, 2007-2010, 2015-2017
surface	Natural grass
capacity	15,000 seats
Societies)
FCO Dijon
Events
Dijon FCO matches

The Stade Gaston Gérard is a football stadium in Dijon , Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region , France . The FCO Dijon team plays their home games here. The attendance record dates from April 3, 1991 when 16,140 visitors (according to other sources 15,360) came to the cup match between CF Dijon and Olympique Marseille .

history

The stadium was opened in May 1934 under the name Parc des Sports in the presence of the then President Albert Lebrun . It got its current name in 1969 from the first French Minister of Tourism, Gaston Gérard . He also invented the well-known poultry dish Poulet Gaston Gérard . In 1974 a floodlight system was installed . In 1990 the press stand, floodlights and boxes were built. The stadium was designed for various sports such as soccer, rugby, athletics and cycling. On June 13, 1992, Serhij Bubka set a new pole vault world record with 6.11 meters .

On September 26, 2007 work began on renovating the stadium. The north stand was opened on May 29, 2009, increasing the capacity to 10,902. After the completion of the south stand and its opening on October 29, 2010, 15,000 seats will be available.

After the club was promoted to Ligue 1 for the first time in 2011, the main and opposite stands were to be rebuilt and, once completed, would offer 22,000 seats.

With the demolition of the east stand in the summer of 2015, a new phase of renovation and redesign of the former athletics stadium into a football arena began. By the start of the 2017/18 season, the Stade Gaston Gérard will have four grandstands right on the edge of the field and offer 16,000 seats.

Web links

• Stadium on the FCO Dijon website. In: dfco.fr (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadium history with stadium pictures (French)
2. ↑ Structures ( Memento of November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: dfco.fr (French)
3. ↑ Recipe for Chicken Gaston Gérard
4. ↑ Inauguration de la tribune Sud ( Memento of April 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: dfco.fr , October 28, 2010, accessed on September 7, 2011
5. ↑ L'histoire d'un stade. ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: dfco.fr (French)