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Address: 279 avenue de la Châtre, Châteauroux
Country: French Republic
Capacity: 17,000
Opened: 13 September 1964
Main use: Football
Tenants: La Berrichonne de Châteauroux (football)
Stade Gaston-Petit, located in Châteauroux, is the home ground of La Berrichonne de Châteauroux, one of the oldest football clubs in France, founded in 1883. Since its opening in 1964, the stadium has played a central role in regional football development and has hosted numerous competitive fixtures across the national football structure, including Ligue 2 and Championnat National matches.
Over the decades, the venue has welcomed high-attendance home games, key promotion battles, and nationally broadcast fixtures that contributed to the rise in visibility of Châteauroux football. The stadium remains a landmark sports venue in the Centre-Val de Loire region, serving both professional competitions and community football initiatives.
Stade Gaston-Petit has hosted:
• Major league matches featuring La Berrichonne across multiple professional tiers.
• National cup competitions attracting visiting clubs from higher divisions.
• Regional tournaments, academy showcases, and community sports events.
• Occasional multi-sport or municipal events supported by the stadium’s open configuration.
To maintain compliance with modern competition standards, Stade Gaston-Petit has undergone several important renovation phases:
• Stand and seating modernization： Upgraded spectator stands, enhanced seating comfort, and improved circulation areas designed to support larger match-day crowds.
• Pitch improvements： Reinforced turf systems, updated drainage, and improved irrigation to ensure consistent playing conditions in all seasons.
• Technical and athlete facilities： Renovation of locker rooms, physiotherapy spaces, tunnel access, and warm-up areas to meet modern club and federation requirements.
• Media and operations upgrades： Enhancements to press boxes, broadcast positions, and game-day technical systems to support national-level coverage.
• Lighting and scoreboard integration： Progressive modernization of illumination systems and digital displays for improved visibility and spectator engagement.
Stade Gaston-Petit remains a core sports infrastructure asset for Châteauroux. With increasing expectations for HD broadcasting, night-game illumination quality, and energy-efficient operations, the venue is well-positioned for next-generation upgrades. MECREE high-uniformity LED sports lighting systems would significantly enhance pitch visibility, support multi-angle broadcast clarity, and reduce long-term operational costs while meeting regional and national competition requirements.
The stadium continues to serve players, supporters, and the wider community, reinforcing its status as a historic and active football venue in central France.
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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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