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Address: Cours Jules-Ladoumègue, Bordeaux
Country: French Republic
Capacity: 42,000
Opened: 23 May 2015
Main use: Football
Tenants: FC Girondins de Bordeaux (football)
Matmut Atlantique is a modern football stadium located in Bordeaux, southwestern France. Opened in 2015, the venue replaced the historic Stade Chaban-Delmas as the primary home of FC Girondins de Bordeaux, marking a new era for top-level football in the region.
Designed to meet UEFA elite competition standards, the stadium combines contemporary architecture with advanced spectator comfort, broadcast infrastructure, and sustainable construction principles.
Construction start: 2013
Opening date: 23 May 2015
Construction costs: €168 million
The stadium was developed as part of Bordeaux’s wider urban regeneration program. Its minimalist rectangular design ensures excellent sightlines from all seating areas while optimizing acoustics and crowd engagement.
Matmut Atlantique was selected as one of the official venues for the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship (UEFA EURO 2016).
During the tournament, the stadium hosted five international matches, reinforcing its status as one of France’s newest and most capable international football venues. The event required compliance with stringent UEFA requirements regarding:
Pitch lighting and broadcast illumination
Media facilities
Safety and crowd management systems
FC Girondins de Bordeaux are the long-term tenants of Matmut Atlantique.
Key club information:
Founded: 1881
Name origin: Derived from the Girondins, a political group during the French Revolution
Domestic achievements: Multiple French top-flight league titles
The club has historically been one of France’s most prominent football institutions, producing numerous international players and maintaining a strong presence in European competitions across different eras.
Matmut Atlantique features:
Fully covered seating bowl
High-capacity hospitality and VIP areas
Modern press and broadcast zones
Optimized crowd circulation and access control
The stadium’s architecture emphasizes symmetry and clarity, ensuring consistent viewing quality and efficient operational management on matchdays.
As a post-2010 stadium, Matmut Atlantique was designed to accommodate high-performance sports lighting systems, including:
Uniform horizontal and vertical illuminance
Flicker-free LED lighting suitable for 4K and ultra-slow-motion broadcasting
Precise glare control for players and officials
Energy-efficient operation aligned with sustainability goals
These requirements are essential for hosting UEFA competitions and international broadcast events.
MECREE delivers professional LED sports lighting solutions for modern football stadiums, including venues comparable in scale and function to Matmut Atlantique.
Our solutions support:
UEFA and FIFA compliant lighting design
LED system optimization and retrofitting
Intelligent lighting control for match, training, and event modes
Reduced energy consumption and long-term operational efficiency
MECREE enables stadium operators to maintain elite competition standards while optimizing lifecycle costs.
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With the growing popularity of nighttime sports events, professional competitions demand higher lighting quality. The glare from traditional fixtures can no longer meet athletes’ expectations for sensory experience. Leveraging breakthroughs in MECREE’s sports lighting technology, our precise light control and anti-glare designs enable athletes to perform at their peak and enjoy an exceptional sports experience.
Issues caused by unnecessary nighttime lighting, such as light pollution and light trespass, are increasingly concerning and have led to rising public complaints. Amid growing environmental awareness, lighting designers must prioritize controlling “Light Pollution” and “Light Trespass.” We are committed to addressing this challenge through innovative optical technologies.
Currently common traditional stadium lights model for some international stadiums as below:
MVF406/1800W, HNF003, MVF401, MVF403, MVF024, EF-2000, YOA56305, YOAX56400, 2kW: HQI-TS 2000WDS, 2kW: HQI-TS 1000WDS, MHN-SA 2KW 400V/956, MHN-SB/HO 2KW 400V/956, LPW2000M/D, LPW1000MB/L, LPP2000MHN-SA, LPP2000MHN-SB.
There is big problem that traditional lamps can not cannot meet the needs of 4K and 8K high-definition broadcast and huge energy consumption.
With the strengthening of environmental lighting awareness and the pursuit of high-quality lighting, there is a trend to replace traditional lamps by high quality of LED Stadium Lights.
MECREE has launched the following series of LED Sport Stadium Lighting:
MECREE’s specially engineered precision lighting control is designed to meet the needs of such users. The polarized light range of 65-73° is defined as the P73-L and A65 series products, which deliver an unparalleled visual experience while offering access to thousands of IES profiles.
Our precisely engineered optics of polarized light aim light directly onto the field of play, to shine uniformly and to minimize glare. Outdoor venues benefit from spill light control, no more skyglow and no more complaints from the neighbors.
1. Such light shield is useless,just misleading customers.
2. As tested it will cause 30% reduction of light output
3. While 70% still have high overflow
4. Unbearable strong glare
5. Waste energy,outdated reflective technology
The power supply and lamp body can be mounted separately, reducing the withstand weight of the lamp pole and facilitating maintenance.
Customized crossarms are available to meet all your existing old poles without replacing the main rod, crossarms bolt directly to light pole, easy and accurate installation saves time, ensures performance, safety and reliability,also lower the budget.
In current sports lighting projects, high-altitude light calibration is recognized as a major efficiency bottleneck. The process carries high safety risks, is prone to aiming deviations, and involves cumbersome installation and removal procedures, making it difficult to achieve the required uniformity.
MECREE’s innovative laser aiming mount was designed precisely to address these issues. It revolutionizes the workflow through three key advantages:
Easy Installation: With a simple design, it allows rapid mounting and dismounting, significantly lowering the operational threshold.
Precise Aiming: Ensures accurate laser alignment, fundamentally guaranteeing uniform illumination and compliance with lighting standards.
Efficient Operation: Reduces labor and time costs by up to 80%. Calibrating 200 fixtures at height previously took 20 days; now the same workload can be completed in just 4 days.
Choosing MECREE means choosing a safer, more precise, and highly efficient sports lighting solution.
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