MATMUT STADIUM IN GERLAND: THE ICONIC STADIUM IN THE HEART OF LYON
The venue offers 5,000m2 of modular, scalable reception spaces for your events, with attendance capacities ranging from 100 to more than 2,000 people. It also has various outdoor spaces, including the main pitch, for your team-building and incentive workshops.
Our many different event spaces enable you to organise events that are tailored exactly to your needs and expectations. The Matmut Stadium is a venue that lives and breathes the great values of rugby, since it is the home of the LOU Rugby team, which plays in the TOP 14 (France's top league for rugby).
At the Matmut Stadium, EVERYTHING BECOMES POSSIBLE for you to create a unique event experience in an atypical and historic venue.
Benefit from the setting of our lounges with their panoramic views of the pitch and immerse your event in a powerful sports environment.
Our advantages
- A unique venue with a rich history, the stadium was built by the architect Tony Garnier and is listed as a Historic Monument
- A venue that has been fully renovated and modernised
- A venue that is tailor-made for team building and incentives
- Scalable, modular spaces to meet all your needs
- A Hospitality Village with 1,500m² of ground floor space with no intermediate supporting pillars, ideal for conventions, fairs, buffets receptions and gala dinners
- Located in the heart of Lyon's famous Gerland district
5 000m²
of modular event spaces
UP TO 2,000
people for buffet receptions
4 PANORAMIC LOUNGES
from 110m2 to 460m2
800m2
of modular terraces
Our floor plans and capacities
TESTIMONIALS
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"I just wanted to write and say thank you to the three of you and to all the operational teams who worked alongside us over the last few days! It was a real PLEASURE working with you, you make a great team - close-knit, professional and friendly! If it were like that every time we work on events, it would be wonderful! So, thank you for everything.
Of course, we will schedule a detailed debriefing session in the near future, so that we can get together and discuss the event, but I really wanted to send you this quick message to pass on to the teams, who took care of everything yesterday; they always had a smile on their faces and were good humoured. I would like to send a special thank you (in addition to the three of you) to Parfait, Romain, Clément, Damien, the goods-handling teams and the GL technicians, who were just fantastic, and without whom the event would not have been such a great success! They are the people "behind the scenes" (who often don't get the recognition they deserve) who ensure everything works smoothly!"
Ms Louise LE BRETON - Like Events
March 2024
Access: how to get to the Matmut Stadium
Situated in the Lyon's Gerland district, the venue is easy to get to, whatever means of transport your decide to use.
The Matmut Stadium is just 30 minutes from Lyon-Saint Exupéry international airport
- Lyon Saint- Exupéry airport, France's 2nd largest regional airport, has direct flights to 116 cities, including 96 international destinations (36 countries) with 44 airlines
- Lyon Saint- Exupéry is easy to get to thanks to its excellent interconnecting transport networks: high-speed train (TGV) and the Rhônexpress, a rail link that runs every 15 min to Lyon city centre (less than 30 minutes' travel)
- Lyon-Bron Business airport is also just 20 minutes from the Matmut Stadium
Prepare your arrival beforehand and save time by clicking here
The city of Lyon has 3 high-speed train (TGV) stations with several trains a day to and from major French and European cities:
- Lyon Part-Dieu
- Lyon Perrache
- Lyon Saint-Exupéry (airport)
To get to the Matmut Stadium from the stations: prepare your itinerary beforehand ("Stade de Gerland le LOU" stop) by clicking here
Close to the A46, A43 and A7 motorways, the Matmut Stadium is at the heart of the European motorway network, just 4 hours from Paris, 3 hours from Marseille, 2 hours from Geneva and 3 hours from Turin.
Easily accessible by car, the Stadium is just 30 minutes from Lyon-Saint Exupéry international airport and 10 minutes from the city centre.
The Matmut Stadium has over 500 free parking spaces available on site.
From Geneva/Chambéry/Grenoble:
- A43 motorway, take the exit towards Marseille (on the southern ring road [Périphérique Sud])
- Ring road (Périphérique), take exit 16 to Lyon centre/Porte de Gerland
From Paris:
- M7 motorway, take the exit towards Lyon-Centre and towards the M6 motorway
- M6 motorway, take exit 1.3 Gerland/La Confluence
From Marseille:
- M7 motorway, take the exit to "Boulevard périphérique/A42/A43"
The Matmut Stadium is accessible via the public transport network (TCL), which runs every day:
- Métro B get off at the "Stade de Gerland - Le LOU" stop
- Tram T1 get off at the "Debourg" stop - 600m from the stadium
- Bus 60 get off at the "Stade de Gerland - Le LOU" stop
1,400 taxis are at your service to drive you to the Matmut Stadium.
Main booking centres:
- Taxi Radio: +33 (0)4 72 10 86 86
- Allo Taxi: +33 (0)4 78 28 23 23
- Taxi Lyonnais: +33 (0)4 78 26 81 81
- Taxi Aéroport: +33 (0)4 72 22 70 90
- Do not hesitate to come by bike: a cycle path goes to the venue along the Avenue Jean Jaurès and Avenue Tony Garnier.
- There are 4 Vélo'v (self-service bike) stations less than 500 metres from the stadium gates.
A 2-wheeler parking area is also available inside the stadium.
- Map of the stations