Where to play 5v5 soccer in Lille, France
By the Poteau Team · updated
IN SHORT
A 5v5 game in Lille, France usually costs €10 per player, and one game in four goes for €6.50 or less. Most of it happens just outside the city: Lezennes, Bondues, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Tourcoing. Sunday is the busiest day, then Wednesday.
Where people actually play
Center | Where | Usual price |
|---|---|---|
Tourcoing | €9 | |
Lezennes | €10 | |
Bondues | €10 | |
Villeneuve-d'Ascq | €10 | |
Spot FUTSAL | near Lille | €8 |
Prices seen on Poteau. Book direct and a center may charge something else.
KIPSTADIUM is a partner center. Its slots land straight on Poteau, so you take one spot without booking the whole field. It's in Tourcoing, in the Union district: six 5v5 fields, two indoor and four outdoor. Plus 250 parking spaces.
UrbanSoccer Lille Lezennes has nine fields, all indoor (in Lille, that matters). Outside the Paris area, it's the center where players start the most games on Poteau. Bondues has ten, two of them outdoors. Footsal Cousinerie, in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, is indoor too.
Around Lille, 50 centers and fields have their own page on Poteau.
What it costs in Lille
€10 per player. Same as Lyon, and €1 less than Marseille.
But Lille has more low prices. A quarter of games go for €6.50 or less. And 9 in 10 stay at €12 or under.
At Lezennes, more than one game in four costs €6.50. At Bondues, nearly 4 in 10 cost €6.50 or less.
Across France, the time of day moves the price: €8 on a weekday afternoon, €11 in the evening. Full breakdown: how much 5-a-side costs.
98% of the time, you pay at the center, on site.
The busy days
In Lille it's Sunday, then Wednesday. But it depends on the center.
Center | Busiest days |
|---|---|
KIPSTADIUM | Wednesday and Sunday |
UrbanSoccer Lille Lezennes | Sunday and Friday |
UrbanSoccer Lille Bondues | Sunday and Monday |
Footsal Cousinerie | Wednesday and Thursday |
Spot FUTSAL | Wednesday and Thursday |
Sunday is also the top day across France: one player-run game in five. A busy day means more games, so better odds someone is short a player.
Where spots are left
Across France, on weekday evenings, 1 game in 10 still has a spot at kickoff. On weekend afternoons, 1 in 6. After 10 pm on weekends, more than 1 in 4.
On weekends, morning and afternoon games come together earlier than weekday ones. They're usually posted the day before. A weekend evening game goes up about 7 hours ahead. A weekday evening game, 11 hours.
So for a Sunday morning or afternoon, look on Saturday. For Sunday evening, look that morning or at midday. The rest is in finding a game without a team.
Anything free?
Around Lille, on Poteau, almost everything is played at a center. The exception is in the city itself: the Centre sportif Arthur Cornette. Games there are free most of the time, mostly on Saturday and Sunday.
Across France, 9 in 10 games set up on a public field are free. To find one near you, there is Data ES (equipements.sports.gouv.fr), France's official sports facility database.
Paris works differently: free soccer in Paris.
No team? Join an open game
On Poteau, close to half of player-run games are short only one or two people. You see the price, the open spots and who's already in. You sign up without knowing anyone.
As long as you're the only one signed up, the game happens half the time. With a second player, 8 times out of 10. At five, 94%. The second person to join is often the one who makes it real.
The organizer's number is on their profile before the game. Handy for finding the entrance.
Picking the right level
Almost every player-run game shows the level it expects. Nearly 1 in 5 welcomes levels 1 to 4, so beginners too.
If you don't know where you stand, the level quiz scores you from 1 to 10.
The Poteau Team