Stade de l'Épopée is a stadium in
Calais,
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
. It is currently used for
football matches and is the home stadium of
Régional 1
The Régional 1 (previously known as ''Division d'Honneur'') is the common generic name for the highest level football league competitions run by each of the 13 Regional Leagues in France. Together, these league competitions serve as the sixt ...
club Grand Calais Pascal FC.
The stadium holds about 12,000 spectators.
The first game played at the stadium was a 4–1 win for
Stade Lavallois
Stade Lavallois Mayenne Football Club (), also referred to as Stade Laval or simply Laval, is a French association football club based in Laval in western France. The club was formed on 17 July 1902 and currently plays in Ligue 2, the second ...
over former tenants
Calais RUFC
Calais Racing Union FC (Calais RUFC) was a French football club based in Calais, France.
Calais RUFC was founded in 1974 after a merger of two local clubs and, as an amateur club, reached the 2000 Coupe de France Final which it lost to top-fligh ...
on 27 September 2008.
References
External links
Stadium information
Calais RUFC
l'Epopee
Sports venues in Pas-de-Calais
Sport in Calais
Sports venues completed in 2008
Buildings and structures in Calais
21st-century architecture in France
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