Modernization and transformation work of the enclosure will lead to closing it from December 1, 2023 and until September 2024. It remains to settle the question of which will compensate for the shortfall.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Due to preparatory work for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (installation of a new athletics track, installation of 5G telephony, etc.), the Stade de France in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), will be unavailable from December 1, 2023, which means that there will be no football and rugby matches or concerts in the enclosure until September 2024.
Initially, the Games Organization Committee (COJOP) had to have the enclosure from March 15 to September 20, 2024, for a non -exclusive provision at first (March 15 to 1 er June), then exclusive in a second step (1 er June to September 20). The Games will be held from July 26 to August 11 and the Paralympic from August 28 to September 8.
With the new work calendar, the Stade de France will therefore not welcome the matches of the 2024 Six Nations tournament. For the Blues of Rugby, which must receive Ireland, Italy and England, the fallback solutions could be Marseille or Lyon, different sources explained to the France Press agency. Football will also have to find other places both for the French team during the international window, from March 18 to 26, 2024, or for the final of the Coupe de France (May 25).
This period of unavailability longer than expected is the subject of tight negotiations between the Stade de France consortium, the State (owner of the stadium) and the COJOP, reiterated a source close to the file to AFP . A part could be taken care of by the State.
In a report published on January 10, the Court of Auditors estimated that the total cost of provision of the Stade de France “will be significantly higher” to the 7.5 million euros put forward by the government in October 2016: If all the matches of the FFF and the FFR, as well as the concerts were canceled, the loss of operating the enclosure would be “in the tens of millions of euros”, noted the report, which, it insisted on The fact that this shortfall must “be fully supported by the COJOP”.