Stade Dominique Duvauchelle
Encyclopedia
Stade Dominique Duvauchelle is a multi-use stadium
in Créteil
, France
. It takes its name from a local sports journalist who died shortly before the stadium's inauguration. It is currently used mostly for football
matches and is the home stadium of US Créteil-Lusitanos Football. The stadium was built with an original capacity of approximately 6,000. It increased its capacity to 12,150 people in February 2006.
Its record attendance for a league match was for a match between Créteil and Saint Etienne
on 5 August 2001 with 6325 spectators. The record for a cup match is 8000 in a match hosted there by amateur team US Lusitanos Saint-Maur against Bordeaux in the round of 32 of the French Cup on 19 January 2002.
Stadium
A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...
in Créteil
Créteil
-Health:As of 1 January 2006, 27 pharmacies, about 60 dentists, about 60 general practitioners, 10 pediatricians, and a half-dozen ophthalmologists and dermatologists constitute the general medical staff of the city.Health facilities include:...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. It takes its name from a local sports journalist who died shortly before the stadium's inauguration. It is currently used mostly for football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
matches and is the home stadium of US Créteil-Lusitanos Football. The stadium was built with an original capacity of approximately 6,000. It increased its capacity to 12,150 people in February 2006.
Its record attendance for a league match was for a match between Créteil and Saint Etienne
AS Saint-Étienne
Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire is a French association football club based in Saint-Étienne. The club was founded in 1919 and currently play in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. Saint-Étienne plays its home matches at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard located within the city...
on 5 August 2001 with 6325 spectators. The record for a cup match is 8000 in a match hosted there by amateur team US Lusitanos Saint-Maur against Bordeaux in the round of 32 of the French Cup on 19 January 2002.