Stade Sébastien-Charléty (; ), also known as Stade Charléty or Charléty, is a

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located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Comprising a

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and a football field, the stadium is a 20,000-seat

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venue used for numerous sports and events. It is also the current

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of the rugby union team of

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, who operate the venue, and the

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

clubs

Paris FC Paris Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris FC or simply PFC, is a French professional football club based in Paris, that competes in the Ligue 2, the second tier of French football. Paris FC play their home matches at the Stade Ch ...

and

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History

The stadium opened in 1938 and was designed by French architect

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. In

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, Charléty made the news for a nonsporting event: on 27 May, the meeting of the

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, one of the most important of the protests of that month, took place, attracting between 30,000 and 50,000 people. The crowd, led by

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and

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, shouted "''Ce n'est qu'un début, continuons le combat!''" ("This is only the beginning; let's keep up the fight!"). The stadium has hosted many matches during various

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s. The stadium has an athletic track that hosted the 1994 and 2002

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and the 2003 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival. The stadium was scheduled to host the 2020 European Athletics Championships but that event was cancelled because of the

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. It served as the temporary home for the

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club, starting in 2010–11 and running through 2012–13, while that club was building a completely new stadium at the site of its traditional home,

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. It also hosted a Stade Français home match in the Paris

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with Racing Métro in the 2009–10 season.

Arena

There is an indoor sporting arena called Salle Pierre Charpy that is located under the stadium. The capacity of the arena is 1,850 people. It is currently the home arena of the

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professional volleyball team

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