Stade Dominique Duvauchelle is a multi-use
stadium
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in
Créteil
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,
France
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. It takes its name from a local sports journalist who died shortly before the stadium's inauguration. It is currently used mostly for
football
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matches and is the home stadium of
US Créteil-Lusitanos
Union Sportive Créteil-Lusitanos (commonly referred to as US Créteil, USC, or simply Créteil) is a French football club based in Créteil, a southeastern suburb of Paris. The club was founded in 1936 and currently play in the Championnat Nati ...
. 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
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in the round of 32 of the
French Cup
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on 19 January 2002.
References
Dominique Duvauchelle
Athletics (track and field) venues in France
US Créteil-Lusitanos
Sports venues in Val-de-Marne
Sports venues completed in 1983
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