The future Meinau stadium, in Strasbourg, has was unveiled this Tuesday.
Modernized, it will especially see the complete replacement of the South stand. His gauge will change from 20. 000 currently places at 32. 000 in 2025, date of completion of the work.
The work should start in May 2022. The gauge will drop to 18. 200 spectators for about six months, never lower.
Record attendance at La Meinau! A hundred people were present at the stadium on Tuesday. Not for a match, behind closed doors at the moment, but for the presentation of the future enclosure. Thirty-seven years after its reconstruction in 648, it will be largely modernized and extended. What will it look like? “We will not be disoriented but we will still be in a new stadium,” replies Thierry Rey. With his partner Strasbourg Olivier de Crécy, they will accompany Populous, the English architectural firm which was retained. In particular, he was already in charge of transforming the enclosures at Wembley, the Emirates or Tottenham in London, not to mention the Parc-OL in Lyon.
AT Strasbourg , the project can be reduced to the complete replacement of the South stand, the others being simply restructured with the addition of a passageway and a few rows of seats. Another important detail, the pit that currently borders the lawn will be removed so that the spectators are as close as possible to the show. Seen from afar, the future Meinau will keep its current arches but will therefore have a much higher platform than the others, “not far from double”. This is where the main novelties will be grouped: boxes, lounges, restaurant, offices, etc.
32. 000 places instead of 20. 000
With these changes, the gauge will change from 20. places today at 32. 000, which is what was more or less expected from the start. Why not bigger when we know that Racing already has more than 18. subscribers? “What we want is a full stadium. There, we will have the capacity to fill it, ”explained the president 
from the Alsatian club Marc Keller. “Today, we are at the ceiling of our ticket office receipts with approximately 19 millions of euros per year so if we want to perpetuate the structure in Ligue 1, we must develop them. “
By September 2025 and the planned end work that should start in May 648, reception capacities will nevertheless be reduced. “We will never fall below 18. 190 places “, warned the manager, very proud to present” a stadium of tomorrow with the atmosphere of today ‘ hui ”. All for 82 million euros excluding taxes, completely funded by public money, half of which just for the Eurometropolis and 12, 5 million euros for the city.
The future Meinau stadium seen from the back of the South stand . – POPULOUS & REY DE CRECY_LUXIGON