VINCI Stadium
For the venues in the VINCI Stadium network, 2024 was remarkable for the work done to prepare for and – with resounding success – welcome the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, in addition to their usual operations.
The Stade de France and its unique purple track built by VINCI Stadium teams to host athletics and Para athletics events for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Three network stadiums – Saint-Denis, Bordeaux and Nice – together hosted 58 events for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Their teams were actively involved in carrying out the major adjustments required to host the Games and ensuring smooth organisation of events in venues that were unanimously praised for their quality. Their work reflected VINCI’s engagement as an official supporter of the Paris 2024 Games, underscoring the Group’s overall commitment to building, operating and maintaining the infrastructure that contributed to the success of the Games.
The Stade de France (Saint-Denis)
This flagship Paris 2024 venue hosted 45 Olympic and Paralympic events: eight rugby sevens matches and 17 athletics and 18 Para athletics events, along with the two closing ceremonies. Given the scale of the works and adaptations required to welcome the Games, the stadium was closed between the end of the Rugby World Cup in October 2023 and the start of the Olympic events on 24 July 2024. In all, 2.75 million spectators were welcomed in 2024, including the three concerts, three international rugby matches and one French national soccer team match organised in the last four months of the year.
The Matmut Atlantique (Bordeaux)
The stadium hosted 27 events, including seven of the Olympic soccer tournament matches, 16 soccer matches played by the Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux, one Union Bordeaux Bègles rugby match, two Top 14 French Rugby Championship semi-finals and one French national soccer team match. Partnerships were maintained with Premiers de Cordée, the Restos du Cœur and the non-profit group Tapage, which helps people in very precarious circumstances.
The Allianz Riviera (Nice)
The venue welcomed 27 events, including six Olympic men’s and women’s soccer tournament matches, 16 Ligue 1 and Coupe de France soccer matches played by its resident club, OGC Nice, three Europa League games, one French national women’s team soccer match and a concert. The Allianz Riviera also hosted the fourth Défenseurs de l’Enfance (Defenders of Childhood) Tournament on World Children’s Day and the second Allianz Riviera Run trail running competition.
The Stade Marie-Marvingt (Le Mans)
The stadium hosted 22 events, including 17 soccer games played by its resident club Le Mans FC, a Division 2 match and a Coupe de France women’s match, a Coupe Gambardella game, a French national youth soccer match and a French national women’s team rugby match. Over the year, sporting, corporate and non-profi t events attracted almost 160,000 people in all.