OL Féminin: "We need a stadium with 15,000 - 20,000 seats" (Michele Kang)

"The Groupama Stadium is a great stadium and I'd like to fill it at every game. But I think that's ambitious and a bit unrealistic. They (the OL Féminin players) play their big games there, including the Champions League matches, which is great. All the others are played on the training centre pitch, which has 1,200 seats. That's unacceptable, isn't it? OL Féminin is the best team in the world. The players should not be playing their professional matches in this stadium. There's a happy medium between 1,200 and 58,000, probably around 15,000 to 20,000 seats. We need this stadium so that the players can feel at home. It's very important," said Michele Kang, owner and president of Olympique Lyonnais Féminin (D1 Arkema) to the French sports daily L'Equipe on 09/02/2024.

"Ideally, I'd like to build a complex, not just for the players, but also for the youngsters. Ideally in the same place as the stadium, but we're not in the middle of nowhere, Lyon is a big city. We're looking for a reasonable-sized pitch. As you can imagine, it's a bit of a challenge. So we may have to build the…