FC Martigues should already soon leave the Vélodrome

While it has just taken its first point of the season “at home”, FC Martigues could already leave the Vélodrome stadium and use the Chambly venue for its next domestic meetings.

Questioned by BFM Marseille Provence, the president of the club Pierre Wantiez indeed indicated that this transitional solution while awaiting the compliance of Francis-Turcan weighed (too much?) on the finances of the Provençal club, promoted in Ligue 2 this season. “ The Martégal public loves Turcan, that’s normal. There is a warmth that is unique to it. The public is very close to the pitch, we feel a fervor that is specific and cannot be reproduced at the Stade Vélodrome. The work was to be finished by early spring. Everyone in Martigues is motivating themselves to make things go a little faster. We still have early January in mind. The question is raised in view of the cost of renting the Vélodrome stadium and the low impact that it would have to seek another transitional solution. We can’t go to a rugby stadium, we can’t go to Nice. Nîmes does not wish to welcome us, it is their right. If we have to leave the Vélodrome stadium, we will move a long way from Martigues. Perhaps we will be obliged to do so given the financial burden represented by the Vélodrome. Each match costs at least 160,000 euros in net loss for FC Martigues. This is not sustainable. »

Only 739 supporters took their seats in the aisles of the Olympique de Marseille stadium for the Dunkirk reception while only 150 subscriptions were sold. Very insufficient to cover rental costs close to €150,000 per match.

According to La Provence, the FCM should migrate for its next home matches to the Walter-Luzi stadium in Chambly… 843 km from Martigues but with a much more affordable cost.