Stade Geoffroy-Guichard

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Stade Geoffroy-Guichard

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard is a multi-use stadium in Saint-Étienne, France. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and tournaments such as the 1984 European Football Championship, the Football World Cup 1998 and the Confederations Cup 2003. It is also used for rugby union, and will be a venue at the 2007 Rugby Union World Cup. It is nicknamed "le Chaudron" (the Cauldron), or "l'enfer vert" (the Green Hell), an allusion to the colours worn by the local football team, the AS Saint-Étienne, given during the apogee of the team in the 1960s and 1970s when spectators would have been very numerous (the peak was reached in 1985 with more than 47000 spectators).

The stadium was built in 1931 and is able to hold 35,616 people.

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