Stade Pierre de Coubertin (Cannes)

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AS Cannes

• Games of AS Cannes
• Trophée des Champions 2002, 2004

The Stade Pierre de Coubertin is a football stadium in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is home of AS Cannes. It has a capacity of 16,000 spectators ( for safety reasons limited to approximately 10,000 seats) and is named after the French sports official Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

Originally designed as a multi-purpose venue, the stadium was first used for rugby and athletics. From the mid- 1970s, the athletes of the Athletic Club de Cannes and the players of AS Cannes, the stadium used together. After both teams increasingly celebrated successes and cooperation was difficult leaving the athletes in 1986, the Stade Pierre de Coubertin and moved into a new home. After that, the stadium was converted into a football-only stadium without the track for track and field athletes.

To match the local AS Cannes against Olympique Marseille arrived on July 31, 1993 17,401 spectators, which to this day is the stadium and also a club record.

In the years 2002 ( Olympique Lyon against FC Lorient 5-1 ) and 2004 ( Paris St. Germain against Olympique Lyon 6:7 on penalties ) was held at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin the game for the Trophée des Champions, the French Supercup between master and Cup holders, instead.