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 running track 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 home ground of the rugby union team of Paris Université Club, who operate the venue.

History

The stadium opened in 1938 and was designed by French architect Bernard Zehrfuss. In May 1968, Charléty made the news for a nonsporting event: on 27 May, the meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, 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 Pierre Mendès-France 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 IAAF Grand Prix Final 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, Stade Jean-Bouin. It also hosted a Stade Français home match in the Paris

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with Racing Métro in the 2009–10 season. In 2025,

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left the Stade Charléty for the Stade Jean-Bouin.

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 French Pro A League professional volleyball team

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Arena

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