DISCOVER FOOTBALL MATCHES AND CUPS

Every year, there is a major competitive event pitting football clubs from all over France against each other. The President of the Republic and many French public figures attend. The pinnacle of the French Cup is, of course, the final at Stade de France.

The French League Cup final has taken place at Stade de France for more than fifteen years now. This is the opportunity for the national venue to provide football fans with its 80,000 seats in a particularly favourable setting for major events.

Attending a friendly football match at Stade de France is the opportunity to see big teams and extraordinary players play, in a more family-friendly and convivial atmosphere than in major competitive matches. But what is a friendly match? What are the differences between competitive and friendly matches? Why are friendly matches important for competitions?

18 years old in 2016, Stade de France, commonly called STADEFRANCE, is already a great monument of international football. Built for the World Cup, it started construction on June 2 1995 and opened its turnstiles on January 28 1998.

Since 1998, Stade de France has regularly hosted the French football team so that it can play its qualifying matches in the best possible conditions. Around twenty European teams have come to face the French team in epic matches that will remain in the history of French sport. One thinks in particular of the famous qualifying match against Ukraine for the 2014 World Cup, where the French team managed to qualify after beating "the Blue and the Yellows" 3-0. An extraordinary match that delighted the 80,000 spectators that evening.