The creation of the Campus de Ker Lann at Bruz, in the suburbs of Rennes, by the General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine in the 1990s was to include a multi-sports complex at a cost of €65 million to be paid for mainly by the Department of Ille-de-Vilaine.

[2] The project was revived when the socialist Jean-Louis Tourenne became head of the General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine following the 2004 cantonal elections.

[3] The €45 million cost of the building was to be borne entirely by the General Council[4] But budget cuts following the global economic crisis jeopardized the project.

A backup plan was then mounted by including the University Rennes 2 in creating a campus for sporting excellence in Brittany.

This project was approved on 27 October 2009[6] and the agreement was signed in Rennes on 29 January 2010 in the presence of regional president Jean-Yves Le Drian and Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade.

The agreement then said that a stadium whose activities would be limited to athletics would be located at Rennes on the Villejean Campus near the Sports Education Building at the university.

A draft of the project was presented to sports bodies at the end of June 2011, and the choice of Villejean Campus was confirmed.

[1] The stadium's capacity is 1,293 places including 793 seated and 500 standing, with the possibility of adding 1,439 more people using mobile bleachers.