Stade Velodrome

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Stade Velodrome
The stadium photographed from the Cité Radieuse (December 2017)
The stadium photographed from the Cité Radieuse (December 2017)
Sponsor name (s)
  • Orange Vélodrome (since 2016)
Data
place 3, Boulevard Michelet 13008 Marseille , France
FranceFrance
Coordinates 43 ° 16 '11.4 "  N , 5 ° 23' 45.3"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 16 '11.4 "  N , 5 ° 23' 45.3"  E
owner City of Marseille
operator Arema
start of building April 28, 1935
opening June 13, 1937
October 16, 2014
First game Olympique Marseille - AC Torino 2: 1
Renovations 1984, 1998, 2011-2014
surface Hybrid lawn
(AirFibr)
architect Henri Ploquin (1937)
Jean-Pierre Buffi (1998)
SCAU, Atelier 9 (2014)
capacity 67,394 seats
playing area 105 m × 68 m
Societies)
Events

The Stade Vélodrome , officially Orange Vélodrome since 2016 due to a name sponsorship , is a football stadium in the 8th arrondissement of the southern French port city of Marseille . The sports facility, which was inaugurated in 1937, was converted for the 2016 European Football Championship . Before the construction work for the EM 2016, it offered 60,301 places. During the 2013/14 season , the stadium was approved for 48,000 visitors. The venue currently offers 67,394 seats in the four tiers. This makes it the largest stadium in France where a club plays. Only the French national stadium, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, is even bigger .

The Stade Vélodrome is owned by the city of Marseille and is home to the Olympique Marseille football club . It is also a venue for the French national rugby team and was the venue for the 1998 Football World Cup and the 2007 Rugby Union World Cup . The stadium was also the venue for the Rugby League World Cups in 1954 , 1972 and 1975 . In 2017, the 20th stage of the Tour de France , an individual time trial , started and ended here .

history

Aerial photo from 2016

The original stadium with 30,000 seats was built for the 1938 World Cup and inaugurated on June 13, 1937. Originally, the field was surrounded by a cycling track, which gave the stadium its name. The stadium was renovated and expanded for the 1998 World Cup. The cycling track fell victim to the expansion of the spectator tiers associated with this renovation, but the stadium retained its original name. Marseille still has an open cycle track, which is located around seven kilometers northeast of the stadium in the Les Olives district in the 13th arrondissement.

In December 2005 the Mayor of Marseille presented a model for a further expansion of the capacity to 80,000 spectators. However, these plans met with strong criticism from the population, as the construction costs were viewed as too high. Because of this criticism and unsecured funding, the plans were halted. The Stade Vélodrome was sold out for the first time (60,031 spectators) when the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League match between Marseille and Liverpool FC on December 11, 2007; by then, the record was 58,897 from 2004.

Expansion for the 2016 European Championship

For the 2016 European Football Championship, the Stade Vélodrome has been covered and expanded to around 67,000 seats. Construction began in March 2011 and the stadium should be completed in summer 2014. In addition, by 2016 a new "shell development" with a shopping center was to be built.

In the summer of 2009, despite significant concerns, a majority of the city ​​council approved a contract that would take the form of a public-private partnership between Marseille and a consortium called Arema , made up of the construction companies GFC Construction (a subsidiary of Bouygues ), Eiffage and Vinci composed. At this point in time, the total costs were estimated at 120 to 160 million euros, some of which the consortium was supposed to provide, as the highly indebted city would not have been able to do this on its own. However, it had already been found in 2010 that the total costs would actually amount to EUR 267.5 million. Of this, the public authorities (from the French state through the various regional authorities to the municipality) have to raise 135 million plus the estimated waiver of around 30 million euros in building permit fees, while Arema only has to raise a good 100 million euros. The reasons given for the cost explosion were the condition that the renovation had to take place while Olympique Marseille was in play, the desire for an adjoining, additional small stadium and the fact that earthquake-proof construction was also not originally planned .

In order for Arema to submit funding for the construction costs, the consortium should from 2013 to 2044 annually 23.5 million euros, a total of almost 730 million euros, from the sale of the naming rights, the entrance fees for various events, as well as - at least that is what the city council intends - received from the main tenant Olympique Marseille; then the clammy commune would not have to pay anything. For the club, this would mean an annual rental payment of 8 million euros from the completion of the stadium, more than five times as much as before (1.5 million euros per year). The association, which was not involved in drafting the contract in advance, is not prepared to do this. He also points out that he will have to accept a massive decline in income from admission fees during the renovation phase: while the average number of spectators at point games in the 2010/11 season was just over 51,000, in the 2012/13 season it was slightly above 33,000 declined. Extrapolated over the three-year construction phase, this corresponds to an income minus of around EUR 30 million minus the 4.35 million that Olympique saves because it only has to pay a symbolic EUR 50,000 per year rent to the city during this time.

The official inauguration of the converted Stade Vélodrome took place on October 16, 2014. Almost two weeks later, on the open day on October 25th and 26th, 55,000 visitors streamed into OM's redesigned home. On November 18, 2014, the French national soccer team met Sweden in their first international match after the reopening and won 1-0.

On March 15, 2015, a new visitor record was set for the third time in the 2014/15 season . 62,832 spectators were present at the game of third place in the table OM against the first Olympique Lyon . This broke the record of December 21, 2014 with 62,408 visitors in the game against OSC Lille .

The renaming of the Stade Vélodrome was announced at a press conference on June 3, 2016 in the town hall with Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin , Stéphane Richard ( PDG of Orange ) and Bruno Botella (President of the operating company Arema). Arema agreed on a ten-year sponsorship agreement with the telecommunications provider Orange . The football arena has been officially called Orange Vélodrome since the 2016/17 season . The company is expected to pay around EUR 2 to 2.7 million annually. In addition, 1000 WLAN terminals are to be installed in the stadium . As a result, around 20,000 viewers could use the Internet at the same time for the OM games. The new name was attached to the stadium after the European Football Championship.

On October 1, 2018, the European Professional Club Rugby announced that the finals of the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Challenge Cup 2020 will be held at the Orange Vélodrome in Marseille.

Games for the 2016 European Football Championship

date round home guest Result
June 11, 2016 Preliminary round EnglandEngland England RussiaRussia Russia 1: 1 (0: 0)
June 15, 2016 Preliminary round FranceFrance France AlbaniaAlbania Albania 2: 0 (0: 0)
June 18, 2016 Preliminary round IcelandIceland Iceland HungaryHungary Hungary 1: 1 (1: 0)
June 21, 2016 Preliminary round UkraineUkraine Ukraine PolandPoland Poland 0: 1 (0: 0)
June 30, 2016 Quarter finals PolandPoland Poland PortugalPortugal Portugal 1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 3: 5 i. E.
0July 7, 2016 Semifinals GermanyGermany Germany FranceFrance France 0: 2 (0: 1)

Grandstands

The Stade Vélodrome offers a total of 67,394 seats.

  • Tribune Jean Bouin: 18.851
  • Tribune Ganay: 22,321
  • Virage Sud: 12.937
  • Virage North: 12,947
  • 1,263 VIP seats in 80 boxes
  • 371 wheelchair-accessible spaces

gallery

  • The stadium before the renovation for EURO 2016

  • Entrance area of ​​the stadium (2008)

  • OM fans at Virage Nord (2006)

  • Virage Sud (2005)

  • The stadium construction site in May 2013

  • The stadium under renovation in August 2013

  • Fan choreography in April 2015

and display information about the image
Interior panorama of the stadium on October 19, 2010 during the UEFA Champions League game against MŠK Žilina (1-0)
and display information about the image
Interior panorama from August 2015

literature

  • Dossier "Vélodrome, la bombe à retardement" ("The Vélodrome, the time bomb") in France Football of April 30, 2013, pp. 18-25

See also

Web links

Commons : Stade Vélodrome  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the stadium ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2014 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. , lenouveaustadevelodrome.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lenouveaustadevelodrome.com
  2. ^ The Velodrome stadium , marseille-tourisme.com
  3. ^ Project on the SCAU website , scau.com
  4. ↑ Data on the renovation , stadiumdb.com
  5. ↑ Vélodrome: 48,000 places pour 2013-14 ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2013 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. , mediafootmarseille.fr (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mediafootmarseille.fr
  6. ↑ a b Stade Vélodrome , stadiumdb.com (English)
  7. ↑ Time trial in the Velodrome: Tour spectacle in the OM Stadium: Uran Froomes last threat -. In: shz.de. July 21, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Brief history of the stadium
  9. ↑ Pictures of the stadium design at that time , stadiumguide.com
  10. ↑ Model of the stadium ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2010 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. , scau.acr-ri.com (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / scau.acr-ri.com
  11. ↑ Vélodrome, la bombe à retardement , p. 20
  12. ↑ Vélodrome, la bombe à retardement , pp. 22 and 24
  13. ↑ Many fans flocked to the new Stade Vélodrome , de.uefa.com from October 27, 2014 (French)
  14. ↑ Another record number of spectators in the Stade Vélodrome , stadionwelt.de from March 18, 2015
  15. ↑ Official press release on the renaming of the stadium ( memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , lenouveaustadevelodrome.com of June 3, 2016 (PDF file, French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lenouveaustadevelodrome.com
  16. ↑ OM: le stade rebaptisé Orange Vélodrome , lequipe.fr of June 3, 2016 (French)
  17. ↑ Stade Vélodrome named after it , stadionwelt.de from June 6, 2016
  18. ↑ Marseille wins bid to host 2020 European club finals. In: epcrugby.com. European Professional Club Rugby, October 1, 2018, accessed May 9, 2019 .