Stade Vélodrome
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Olympique de Marseille Ordered To Play One Game Behind Closed Doors...Ordered To Play One Game Behind Closed Doors Stade Velodrome will have an eerie atmosphere for one Championnat fixture, while there is also news of one of the club's enigmatic youths... Marseille fans in San Siro Stadium -... In this article: Olympique de Marseille, Didier Deschamps, Marseille, Champions League, Hatem Ben Arfa, Jose Anigo, San Siro Stadium, and Stade Velodrome |
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Sunday Mirror | November 07, 2009
Black Cats boss Steve Bruce hails cult figure Lorik Cana
...that left its mark on Liverpool's skipper as well as Bruce. Bruce, then boss of Wigan, could immediately see why the Stade Velodrome fans had christened Cana "Le Destructor". When Bruce then became Sunderland boss he vowed to take the...
In this article: Marseille, Liverpool, Sunderland, Miss Kosovo, Olympique Marseille, Wigan, Didier Deschamps, Twitter, and Steven Gerrard
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UEFA.com News | November 03, 2009
OM fires still burn for Deschamps
...led AS Monaco FC to the final in 2003/04. Now back at the helm of OM, the 41-year-old looked back over his greatest achievements in the competition and discussed his return to the Stade Velodrome. Do you think the French public focus too...
In this article: Didier Deschamps, Marseille, Champions League, UEFA Champions League, Olympique de Marseille, AS Monaco FC, Europe, and Monaco
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ESPN | September 20, 2009
Former OM coach Courbis faces jail sentence
...Montpellier and detained overnight by local police. The former coach was about to commentate on the game at Marseille's Velodrome stadium for a French radio station when police swooped. He was sentenced to two years in prison in October...
In this article: Rolland Courbis, Olympique Marseille, Marseille, and Velodrome
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Marseille sign Cisse and Diawara
...midfielder Edouard Cisse arriving from Besiktas JK and FC Girondins de Bordeaux defender Souleymane Diawara also heading to the Stade Velodrome. Cisse return The 31-year-old Cisse returns to his native country joining on a free...
In this article: Edouard Cisse, Marseille, Souleymane Diawara, Bordeaux, All rights reserved, FC Girondins De Bordeaux, Besiktas JK, Stade Rennais FC, Olympique de Marseille, and West Ham United FC
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Telegraph.co.uk - Football | October 25, 2009
Swine flu forces off Marseille v Paris St. Germain
...match should have gone ahead. He said: "There were two deaths at the Velodrome after Madonna's concert and we were refused a postponement whereas three players have the flu and the match was postponed. "With everything that this club...
In this article: Marseille, Paris St. Germain, Ludovic Giuly, Mamadou Sakho, and L'OM
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Zurich out to unsettle Marseille
...» FC Zurich may have gifted Olympique de Marseille their only points in UEFA Champions League Group C when they went down 1-0 on home soil two weeks ago, but they do not intend to suffer the same outcome at the Stade Velodrome. The...
In this article: Marseille, Zurich, Milan, Bernard Challandes, UEFA Champions League, Toulouse, and Didier Deschamps
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BBC | August 07, 2009
Madonna stage worker's funeral
...clothes for the service. Technicians had been setting up the stage at the city's Stade Velodrome - home of the Olympique de Marseille football team - when the partially-built roof fell, bringing down a crane. French worker Charles...
In this article: Madonna, Marseille, Olympique de Marseille, YouTube, and Leeds
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Ligue 1: Easy win for Monaco, Marseille held
...inside the area. Elsewhere, a Youssouf Hadji goal 18 minutes from time earned Nancy a 1-0 win at troubled Nantes, who are 17th on 12 points. In the later game Olympique Marseille were held to a 2-2 draw with Lille at the Stade Velodrome.
In this article: Monaco, Paulo Andre, Marseille, Olympique Marseille, and Lille
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Madonna stage deaths looked at
...from Headingley in Leeds, died in hospital. Technicians had been setting up the stage at the city's Velodrome stadium when the partially-built roof fell in on Thursday, bringing down a crane. The 60,000-seater Velodrome is France's...
In this article: Madonna, Velodrome, Marseille, Leeds, Udine, Olympique de Marseille, Live Nation, and Richard Miron
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The Stade Vélodrome is a 60,031 capacity stadium in Marseille, France. It is the home ground of top French football club Olympique de Marseille and was also a venue in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. It is the largest club football ground in France. The stadium is also used regularly by the French rugby union team.
The record attendance for a club game at the Stade Vélodrome was of 58,897, for a UEFA Cup semi-final against Newcastle United in 2004. The stadium also featured as a Football World Cup venue when the 1938 finals were held in France. The first ever match to be played was between Marseille and Torino in 1937. There are plans to increase the capacity to 80,000 and build a roof to cover all four stands, plans that are contingent on a possible sale of the Football Club. The stadium was used for the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
The French rugby union team started an impressive run of victories at the stadium in the early 2000s. In November 2000 they defeated the All Blacks 42 to 33, the following year defeating Australia by one point. In 2002 one match was played there again, a win over the Springboks, which was followed by a win over England in 2003. However, their run of luck was broken in 2004, when they lost 14 to 24 to Argentina.
- Name:
- Stade Vélodrome
- Architect:
- Henri Ploquin
- Open:
- June 1937
- Tenants:
- Olympique de Marseille
- Capacity:
- 60,031
- Surface:
- Grass
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