Official | Brest receive planning permission for new stadium | OneFootball

Stade Brestois have confirmed today that they have received planning permission from the City of Brest to build a new stadium. The stadium which will be called Arkéa Park will have the same capacity of 15,000 as their current home the Stade Francis-Le Blé.

The Francis-Le Blé has run into certain issues this season after the club qualified for the Champions League. Brest have not been allowed to play any of their games at their home ground and have had to play at their local rivals EA Guingamp’s Stade du Roudourou.

Brest’s stadium currently receives exemptions from the Ligue de Football Professionnel to play in Ligue 1. The club have confirmed that renovating the grounds would prove to be more expensive than building Arkéa Park.

The club stated that if they had renovated the stadium they would have had to reduce capacity from between 25% to 40% while also the works would have threatened “[the] demolition of private homes and one or two buildings of the Charles de Foucauld School.”

While the club also stressed that Arkéa Park would not be limited to just 17 Ligue 1 fixtures a year and they would be looking to make it a modern stadium capable of handling events throughout the year.

GFFN | Nick Hartland