{"id":19951,"date":"2017-07-29T14:28:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stadiumguide.com\/?p=19951"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:28:51","slug":"stade-charlety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stadiumguide.com\/stade-charlety\/","title":{"rendered":"Stade Charlety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Paris FC | Opening: 1939 | Capacity: 20,000 seats<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Stade Charlety, in full Stade S\u00e9bastien Charlety, got built in 1939 to serve as the new home of rugby club PUC.<\/p>\n

While the stadium had been inaugurated in 1939, works continued during and after World War 2 to complete it. Towards the end of the war, Stade Charlety was the first major landmark to be liberated from Nazi Germany by the allied forces.<\/p>\n

The stadium hosted the Paris University Games in 1957, and over the years hosted various other sports and non-sports events. However, by the 1980s, the stadium had fallen into disrepair and had to get demolished after the pitch\u00a0was found to be contaminated.<\/p>\n

A new stadium was built in its place, which opened in 1994. Initially, the stadium mainly hosted rugby and athletics events, but in 2000 it became the permanent home of Paris FC, which had already played a season at the ground in 1999.<\/p>\n

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