Stade Chaban-Delmas

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Stade Chaban-Delmas
Full name Stade Chaban-Delmas
Location Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Built 1930
Opened 12 June 1938
Renovated 1935 1987 1998
Owner
Surface Grass
Architect René Buthaud, Jacques d'Welles, Raoul Jourde,
Former names Parc Lescure
Tenants
FC Girondins de Bordeaux
Capacity
34,327

Stade Chaban-Delmas (known as Parc Lescure until 2001) is a football and rugby union stadium in Bordeaux, France. It is the home ground of FC Girondins de Bordeaux. It has a capacity of 34,327 places and it was built in 1938. It was completely covered. The stadium also hosted the 1997-98 Heineken Cup final. It hosted two matches of the 1999 Rugby World Cup and four matches of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Its current name is a tribute to Bordeaux's former mayor from 1947 to 1995, Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

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Preceded by
Cardiff Arms Park
Cardiff		 Heineken Cup
Final Venue
1997-98		 Succeeded by
Lansdowne Road
Dublin

Parc Lescure (Bordeaux) • Stade Félix-Bollaert (Lens) • Stade de Gerland (Lyon) • Stade Vélodrome (Marseille) • Stade de la Mosson (Montpellier) • Stade de la Beaujoire (Nantes) • Parc des Princes (Paris) • Stade de France (Saint-Denis) • Stade Geoffroy-Guichard (Saint-Étienne) • Stadium (Toulouse)
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Venues of the 2007 Rugby World Cup France

Coordinates: 44°49′45.27″N, 0°35′53.71″W

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