The Stade de Charentonneau is a

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stadium located in the Charentonneau district of

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, France. Since its inauguration in 1905, Charentonneau has been the home ground of CA Paris.

History

Since its inauguration in 1905, Charentonneau has been the home ground of CA Paris, one of the great Parisian clubs of the pioneering era of French football, and it is still used today by the club, now called ''Cercle Athlétique de Paris-Charenton'', in addition to its usual Stade Henri Guérin located in

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. Along with the Stade Bauer in Saint-Ouen, it is one of the first grounds specially designed for football in France, and therefore, shortly after its inauguration, the Charentonneau stadium hosted back-to-back finals of the Coupe Dewar in

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and

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, both of which being won by

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, with victories over Gallia Club (2–1) and

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(2–0), respectively. It also hosted the finals of

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, in which AS Française was defeated 0–5 by Gallia Club, and of

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, in which Gallia Club lost 3–1 to CA Paris. In the 1910s, the main venue of the Coupe Dewar final was Stade colombes. In addition to being the emblematic stadium of CA Paris, Charentonneau also hosted an international match on 1 January 1911, a friendly between the French football team and

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in front of 2,032 spectators. This was the first match between the two teams and it ended in a 3–0 victory to Hungary thanks to a

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from

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. Two months later, on 12 March, the Charentonneau hosted the final of the 1910–11 LFA Championship between CA Paris and Red Star AC, which ended in a 1–0 win to the latter. Three years later, on 26 April 1914, the Charentonneau hosted the final of the

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between Olympique Lillois and Vie au Grand Air du Médoc, which ended in a 4–1 win to the former. During the 1928 Paris championship, CAP played for the title until the final day, in which they lost to

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at Charentonneau, who thus won the championship. CAP played for many years in its stronghold of Charentonneau, where the club achieved its best performances before the

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and during the interwar period. However, by the end of the 1930s, Charentonneau was no longer available: the land on which the stadium was built was sold by a manager of CAP, who held the majority.

International matches

Biography

References

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