The Stade Gabriel-Montpied () is a multi-use
stadium
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in
Clermont-Ferrand
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,
France
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. It is currently used mostly for
football
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matches and is the home stadium of
Clermont Foot
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.
It was also the venue for the inaugural edition of the
France Women's Sevens
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in the
World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
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in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, and it hosted the
2017 Clermont-Ferrand Sevens, the third leg of the 2017 Rugby Europe Grand Prix series.
The stadium is able to hold 11,980 people and was built in 1995.
History
In the summer of 2023, the start of phase 1 of the work on the new Gabriel Montpied will start with a new configuration for the 2023–24 season without the Tribune Limagne. The stadium's capacity for the 2023–24 season is therefore approximately 10,700 seats.
See also
*
List of football stadiums in France
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Stadiums be ...
*
Lists of stadiums
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Combined lists
*List of stadiums by capacity
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External links
Stadium picturesat www.stadiumdb.com
References
Football venues in France
Rugby union stadiums in France
Clermont Foot
Sports venues in Clermont-Ferrand
Sports venues completed in 1995
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