80,000 Fans To Watch French Club Match

[Polynesian Warrior]

The 2005 Heineken Cup finalists Stade Francais Paris and Toulouse will play in front of 80,000 fans at Stade de France, Paris in the French Top 14 Championship this month. Stade Francais, who played their 2005 Heineken Cup quarter-final and semi-final at the 44,000 capacity Parc des Princes, have secured the 80,000 capacity Stade de France for their much anticipated rematch with Heineken Cup champions Toulouse. The game is an 80,000 sell-out with ten days to go to kick-off on Saturday, 15 October.

When the teams met in Murrayfield for last season’s European finale the match was tied 12-12 after normal time, but a penalty from Frederic Michalak and a fine drop goal in extra-time deprived Stade of their first Heineken Cup, having already lost in the 2001 final to Leicester.

Heineken Cup champions Toulouse will kick-off their European title defense with the visit of Llanelli Scarlets to Saturday, 21 October while Stade Francais’s European campaign will begin at the Ospreys New Stadium on Sunday, 22 October.


Great Stuff from the French Top 14 Clubs .

 

[aussies1st]

Thats quite a effort. I wonder if NSW were able to hold the finals at Telstra stadium if it would sell out.

 

[Jackal Dog]

Toulose will win of course, they have the best backline in Europe.

The French Top 14 is probably the best comp in the Northern Hemisphere in terms of skill and fitness it leaves the the English Premeirship and Celtic League for dead....

 

[The Camden Leisure Pirate]

Thats quite a effort. I wonder if NSW were able to hold the finals at Telstra stadium if it would sell out.

I think if they were playing the ACT or QLD, a sell-out would be a certainty.

 

[Polynesian Warrior]

The biggest crowd for a soccer club match is 59,000 . So i guess the FFR should be proud of their efford .

 

[bayrep]

Are you sure about that PW. I would be surprised in that in a soccer mad country.

 

[Polynesian Warrior]

This is from an artical earlier about the same match .


70000 spectators are expected for Toulouse against Stade Francais in the french league
The Stade de France has been chosen for this fixture, it would beat the best previous attendance for a professional league game during regular season (45000) and even beat the best attendance for a football game in the league 1 currently held by Marseilles with 59000 spectators.