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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Angers SCO | Opening: 1912 | Capacity: 16,500 seats<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Stade Raymond Kopa, previously known as Stade Jean Bouin, opened in 1912. The stadium was initially called Stade Bessonneau and had an athletics track, which got removed in 1957 in a redevelopment. At the same time it got renamed Stade Jean Bouin.<\/p>\n

The stadium underwent a next major redevelopment in 1993 when Angers promoted to Ligue 1, including the construction of the new curved Colombier stand behind the goal, similar to\u00a0those of Marseille’s Stade Velodrome<\/a>\u00a0which would get built a few years later.<\/p>\n

Stade Jean Bouin underwent the next few changes in the 2010s when first a new stand got built and in following years further refurbishments were performed.<\/p>\n

In March 2017, the Angers city council voted to rename the stadium to Stade Raymond Kopa in honour of the recently deceased Raymond Kopa, an ex-player of the club.<\/p>\n

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