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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Royal Excelsior Mouscron | Opening: 1930 | Capacity: 10,800<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Stade du Cannonier, often abbreviated to Le Cannonier, opened in 1932, but Mouscron had already been playing at the site for two years.<\/p>\n

The stadium opened in 1932 with a friendly match versus Cercle Bruges to celebrate the opening of a new grandstand. Additional\u00a0terraces got built in 1947, but otherwise the stadium remained unchanged until the 1970s when various improvements were made.<\/p>\n

Stade du Cannonier underwent multiple developments in the 1990s: first in 1990 when a new east stand got built, next in 1996 when the club promoted and had to make improvements to meet league requirements, and finally in 1999 when a new main stand got built.<\/p>\n

How to get to Stade du Cannonier<\/h3>\n

Stade du Cannonier is located in the south of the small city of Mouscron, a few hundred metres away from the French border.<\/p>\n

The stadium lies about 1.5 kilometres south of Mouscron’s city centre, and a similar distance from the rail station a little further east. The walk from either should not take more than 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Direct trains<\/a> connect Mouscron with Antwerp, Ghent, and Lille in France. Trains run once every hour or other hour. From other destinations in Belgium usually a change in nearby Kortrijk is required.<\/p>\n

Address: 33 rue du stade, 7700 Mouscron<\/p>\n