Info: | The home stadium of football team LOSC Lille Metropole. Opened in August 2012. Stade Pierre-Mauroy has 2 main levels. The full stadium level or "Grand Stade" reaches a height of 31 m and has a total capacity of 50,186 seats including 4,965 business seats, 1,842 luxury-box seats, 448 protocol seats and 326 reserved for the press. Half of the Grand Stade field is situated on hydraulics lift and massive tracks that raise and slide it above the other half of the field in three hours. This exposes a second lower level floor plan and surrounding seats called "Boite a Spectacles", where basketball, tennis or music shows can take place. The Boite a Spectacles can be configured to have a variable capacity, from 6,900 to 30,000 seats. Stade Pierre-Mauroy has a retractable roof which opens and shuts in 15 minutes. |