Just over two miles away from the ground is this Campanile hotel. The club’s – and community’s – fortunes changed forever when mine owner Félix Bollaert decided to build a stadium here worthy of a town ten times its size.
The Novotel is outside the city - about nine miles, in fact - but it’s a charming little hotel with a restaurant, a bar, an outdoor pool and meeting rooms. It’s near to the popular Boulevard Basly area of the city so even if they’re not showing the game that you want to watch there’ll doubtless be somewhere close by that is. They have won Ligue 2 four times, most recently in the 2008-2009 season. They have never won the Coupe de France, though they have lost in the final three times. For that reason you’ll be ale to walk to the ground in about fifteen minutes.There are thousands of car parking spaces to the North-East of the stadium, with largest car park easily accessible from Route de Bethune.Lens isn’t one of the more fashionable cities in France like Nice or Paris, but there are still plenty of places to stay in the city. Palmarès du joueur. It’s functional rather than spectacular but has a restaurant, a terrace, a meeting room and free Wi-Fi. Encore une excellente ambiance à Bollaert ! You can also pick tickets up from the box office that is located at the ground as well as from numerous official resale venues located throughout the city of Lens.The stadium is located about 1 km from what is generally considered to be the centre of Lens. With money missing from the club’s coffers, Lens were demoted from La Ligue before they had even played out the season – a miserable campaign that saw the club finish bottom anyway.It’s all a huge, huge shame.
Construction of the ground began in 1931 and, sadly, the man it was named after died before it was completed.The ground has been used for a number of major events in French sporting history. Arsenal then gained revenge at the semi-final stage of the UEFA Cup in 2000. Under-16s are charged at 50% across the board.Dominating the entrance to the stadium from the park side, Bars by Lens stadium remained popular during the rebuild of 2014-15, partly because supporters’ buses have been leaving from one, The name of André Delelis, the former mayor of Lens who was credited with saving the ground, was added after his death in 2012.Lens have had an up and down history in the French league, both literally and metaphorically. Louis Xercès ou Xercès Louis ? Lens vs Orléans - 20 septembre 2016. 314 personnes intéressée A l'occasion de la rencontre Lens - Troyes (23e journée de Domino's Ligue 2) le mardi 4 février à 21h05 au stade Bollaert-Delelis, profitez de l'offre découverte en tribunes Delacourt niveau 2 et Xercès Latérale avec un prix unique ! They changed to playing in red and gold in 1924, though the reason why has never been completely established. The stadium was redeveloped in 2014-2015 ahead of its use as one of the host venues for the 2016 UEFA European Championships. They’ve picked up three Coupe de la Ligue trophies, three Coupe Drago trophies and three Coupe Gamberdella trophies. 6 Avenue Raoul Briquet, 62300 (+33 3 21 78 79 20) It was used to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup and the 2007 Rugby World Cup plus the footballing European Championships in 1984 and 2016, as well as the FIFA World Cup in 1998. Behind the goal, away fans gather in the Tribune Trannin, home ones in the Tribune Delacourt.For the Stade de Bollaert-Delilis, turn left out of Lens station to the end of rue Jean Letienne, cross the main road onto rue Maurice Carton and turn right by the park – the stadium is ahead of you. There are only six rooms but they have multilingual staff, free breakfast and the now obligatory free Wi-Fi that nearly all hotels seem to boast about as if they’ve only just discovered the technology. La Mi-Temps, or Half-Time in English, is a sports bar in Lens. There’s also a volleyball pitch, free Wi-Fi and free parking.Route de la Bassee, Zone d'Activites, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, 62300 Allow 10-15mins.For lower-flight league games in 2015-16, RCL charge €31 for the best seats in the sideline Tribunes Marek-Xercès and Lepagnot. "Et nous chantons Lens allez !". The grandstands have about as much history attached to them as the stadium itself. Under their former stalwart defender Daniel ‘The Druid’ Leclerq, Lens picked up a surprise title in 1998, midfield stability provided by Marc-Vivien Foé and flair from later Liverpool star Vladimir Smicer.Despite beating Arsenal at Wembley, Lens failed to make the knock-out stage of the Champions League but won the League Cup in the following season. They’ll be able to give you a clearer picture of the options available to you.At the time of writing there are no tours available of the Stade Bollaert-Delelis. Wins over Milan and Deportivo La Coruña live long in the memory.Lens then drifted into mediocrity – even Martel pulled out briefly – before money from selling Raphaël Varane to Real Madrid, and new owner Mammadov, helped achieve promotion in 2013-14.
Here’s some detail on them:The price of tickets for games at Stade Bollaert-Delelis will vary depending on which team Lens are playing and which competition they’re playing in. You’ll also pay more or less money depending on where in the ground you’d like to sit.In this day and age of burgeoning technology the best way to get tickets is by heading to the club’s official website and seeing what they’ve got on offer. After the war, the Derby du Nord with a dominant Lille included the epic French Cup Final of 1948, a late 2-3 defeat.With winger Maryan Wisniewski, provider for prolific Just Fontaine at the 1958 World Cup, Lens achieved two second-place league finishes before a period of decline and amateur football.