Olivier Cloarec sets December 2026 Toulouse Fc move-in date
toulouse fc expects to move into its new performance center in December 2026, and president Olivier Cloarec says the project is back on schedule after a long delay. The club’s move would put both the men’s and women’s teams into a five-level facility on the île du Ramier.
Cloarec said Tuesday, May 19, 2026, that the club is on track and should enter the new building in December. He also called it a key piece of the club’s response to tighter finances, with reduced TV revenue and a budget that has to stretch further than before.
Olivier Cloarec on schedule
“On est dans les temps,” Cloarec said, then added: “On devrait entrer dans ce nouveau lieu courant décembre [2026, N.D.L.R.].” His message was direct: the project is moving again, and the timeline now points to the end of 2026 rather than the original July 2025 target.
The site sits where the former Daniel-Faucher university restaurant stood on the île du Ramier, near the Stadium. Toulouse bought the land in 2022, work began on January 4, 2024, and the building had been abandoned since 2001 and covered in tags before the club moved in on the project.
Daniel-Faucher site on the Ramier
The center will cover 3,300 m2 over five levels and include a hydrotherapy complex and a hypoxic chamber. Viktor Bezhani said the club plans to use it for training, recovery and athletic development, and Cloarec said it will give Toulouse extra arguments to keep players or bring them in.
That pitch is being made while the club adjusts to a harsher financial picture. Cloarec said TV revenue will fall from 20 million euros to 4.5 million euros, and that Toulouse knows it will have less rather than more money coming in.
Budget pressure and squad value
Bezhani’s description of the facility fits the club’s wider needs: the center is meant to support both the men’s team and the women’s team, who were promoted this spring to D1. The same building is supposed to serve daily work on the pitch and the less visible recovery and conditioning work that often separates a good season from a better one.
The project had already been paused on September 3, 2024, by former president Damien Comolli during the financial crisis in French football and at Toulouse. Comolli left the club in May 2025 and later joined Juventus in Turin, and on July 2, 2025, RedBird Capital Partners announced the club’s “reprise prochaine.”
Toulouse’s timing now matters because the club finished 9th in Ligue 1 in 2025-2026, its best championship result since RedBird took over in 2020. If the December 2026 move holds, the club will go into that next phase with a facility built for both squads and a tighter financial base than the one that first launched the project.
