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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Stade Rennais FC | Opening: 1912 | Capacity: 29,778 seats<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Roazhon Park, better known as Stade de la Route de Lorient, officially opened on 15 October 1912 with a match between Rennes and Racing Club de France (0-4).\u00a0Stade Rennais had moved to the new ground\u00a0after their\u00a0previous ground on the south bank of the river Vilaine had flooded several times.<\/p>\n

In the next two decades, few changes were made until the stadium got extensively renovated in the late 1930s.\u00a0After the war, in the 1950s, Stade de la Route de Lorient underwent a next series of redevelopments, resulting in a capacity of just under 30,000.<\/p>\n

Due to the club\u2019s declining successes from the mid 1970s and the resulting decrease in attendances, few changes were made to the stadium in that period, though the club kept making plans to rebuild the stadium into a modern 30,000-arena.<\/p>\n

In 1987, Rennes finally started executing these plans with the construction of a new stand that was inspired by Munich\u2019s Olympiastadion, however the project got abandoned after one stand when the club relegated to the second division.<\/p>\n

After Rennes’ fortunes had returned in the mid 1990s, the club again presented plans for a complete redevelopment of the stadium, and after the city council voted in favour of the \u20ac37-million project, works commenced in 1999.<\/p>\n

Over a five-year period all stands were either rebuilt or renovated. Stade de la Route de Lorient officially reopened on 18 August 2004 with a friendly match between the national teams of France and Bosnia.<\/p>\n

The stadium changed name in 2015 to Roazhon Park following a naming rights sponsorship deal. Around the same time, the stadium underwent a small refurbishment including a change of seat colours from green and blue to red.<\/p>\n

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