– Nov 29, 2024 Work to dismantle the roof on Montreal’s iconic Olympic Stadium is almost complete. The top has been removed and some of the final parts are still being disassembled.

Montreal was mentioned as a possibility largely because the Rays flirted with the idea of playing there a few years ago. While the Rays were trying to secure public funding for their new stadium ...

While the Rays were trying to secure public funding for their new stadium, owner Stuart Sternberg floated a plan to divide the team’s home games between Tampa Bay and Montreal.

Mar 26, 2019; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; General view of the Olympic Stadium with a baseball before a spring training game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Watch each L’Impact match with the World Soccer Talk CF Montréal TV schedule. Montréal is one of the oldest continuously active pro soccer clubs in North America, founded before MLS even existed.

Debts from the 1976 Montreal Olympics were only paid off in 2006. Revenues do not cover spending: Tokyo made $5.8bn in 2020, but spent $13bn.

Montreal ’s controversial Olympic Stadium has a complex history marked by fires, debt, and labor strikes. Total construction costs throughout the stadium ’s history are estimated at $4.1 billion.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government has awarded the organization that manages Montreal's Olympic Stadium up to $40 million to pay for repairs and decontamination after a March 21 fire.