Aulnay-sous-Bois offers to host the new stadium

The popular town of Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) offered to host the future Paris Saint-Germain stadium on Tuesday, whose president recently announced the wish to leave the Parc des Princes. . According to our information, the initial idea of ​​the leaders of the club with 11 French championship titles was, however, to favor the west of Paris… Still, this municipality with a LR majority has initiated a rehabilitation project including in particular the industrial wasteland of a former PSA factory, closed in 2014. “Mayor Bruno Beschizza responded favorably to the call from the Île-de-France Region and proposed the town of Aulnay-sous-Bois to host the future Paris Saint-Germain football stadium within the development project Val Francilia»writes the city in a press release.

PSG is committed until the end of 2043 with the Paris town hall, owner of the Parc des Princes, via a thirty-year lease. The club considers that the acquisition of the stadium is essential to carry out its expansion project to 60,000 seats, compared to around 48,000 currently. But he encountered refusal from the city. Mayor Anne Hidalgo (PS) closed the door in January 2023 by announcing that the Park “will not be sold”. Its position was reaffirmed at the beginning of the month by the Paris Council. “It’s over now, we want to move out of the Park”, replied two days later the president of PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. In an interview given last Friday to the daily Le Parisien, the president of the region, Valérie Pécresse (LR), assured that she wanted to help the club to “find a new stadium” not to “leave PSG in an impasse”evoking a census “exhaustive”.

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More than 50 hectares

The LR mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois proposed his town as a haven for the Parisian club. Its municipality has launched a vast development project called Val Francilia which combines activities, training centers, housing, public facilities and green spaces. “This development project offers more than 50 hectares ready for use for the new stadium which will allow the land renewal of currently artificialized land”details the city, which also mentions “the opportunity to develop a large training center and redeploy the hotel offering in the north-east of Paris, contributing to the expected rebalancing in Île-de-France”. In addition to the proximity to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport and Le Bourget business airport, the site is accessible by the A1, A3 and A104 motorways and will be served by line 16 of the Grand Paris Express from 2026.