The majority of the Paris Olympics this summer time will, after all, happen in…properly, Paris. However as is conventional for the Summer time Video games, some occasions will likely be despatched away to extra becoming locations – and soccer is included in that.
The boys’s and girls’s Olympics soccer tournaments will likely be held at seven totally different venues throughout the nation, together with as far afield from the northern capital as south-coast cities Good and Marseille.
Here is a have a look at the stadia that can host these video games and which video games look notably interesting in case you occur to be on the town.
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Parc des Princes (Paris)
Common view outdoors the Parc des Princes (Picture credit score: Harry Langer/DeFodi Photos through Getty Photos)
Capability: 47,929Previous tournaments: 1938 World Cup, Euro 1960, Euro 1984, 1998 World Cup, Euro 2016, 2019 Ladies’s World Cup
Dwelling to Paris Saint-Germain and the venue for each finals, with the nationwide stadium, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, in use for the athletics in the course of the Olympics. That can make these Olympics the primary time the Parc des Prince has hosted a global soccer remaining since France hosted the Euros in 1960.
Surprisingly, France usually are not enjoying any of their group stage video games right here in both the boys’s or ladies’s tournaments. The choose of the group video games is, by far, Brazil vs Japan within the ladies’s match… and we’re prone to get a kind of sides or Spain in opposition to one of many USA, Germany or Australia within the quarters on the Parc des Princes.
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A France v Argentina quarter-final in Paris is feasible for the boys, however would require the hosts to come back second of their group with Argentina profitable their very own.
Stade de Bordeaux
The Stade de Bordeaux, Euro 2016
Capability: 42,115Previous tournaments: Euro 2016
Constructed for Euro 2016, house to Girondins de Bordeaux, and the south-west’s solely soccer venue getting used for the Olympics.
Brazil v Spain within the ladies’s match within the remaining set of group video games is a mouthwatering conflict, whereas Japan v Paraguay and Spain v Egypt may make for attention-grabbing males’s video games.
Bordeaux is not going to host any ladies’s video games previous the group stage or any males’s video games previous the quarter-finals.
Stade de Lyon
The Stade de Lyon in the course of the 2019 Ladies’s World Cup (Picture credit score: Richard Sellers)
Capability: 59,186Previous tournaments: Euro 2016, 2019 Ladies’s World Cup
Dwelling to Olympique Lyonnais, one other floor constructed for Euro 2016, also called the Parc Olympique and the Groupama Stadium, the bottom hosted each semi-finals and the ultimate on the 2019 WWC.
France Ladies will play two of their group video games right here, in opposition to Colombia and New Zealand, and will likely be hoping to go to once more for the quarter-finals in the event that they high their group. Three quarter-finals will likely be staged right here (together with two ladies’s video games on the identical day), adopted by each a males’s and girls’s semi-final and the ladies’s bronze medal match.
Stade de Marseille
The Stade Velodrome forward of England v Russia in 2016 (Picture credit score: Nick Potts)
Capability: 67,394Previous tournaments: 1938 World Cup, Euro 1960, Euro 1987, 1998 World Cup, Euro 2016.
Deemed too massive for the 2019 WWC – and the largest stadium used for Olympic soccer this 12 months – Stade Velodrome will host a ladies’s worldwide soccer match for the primary time on the Olympics, and on paper has the most effective line-up of group stage video games of any of the grounds…particularly in case you’re an American.
For the boys, Marseille will host France v USA, New Zealand v USA and New Zealand v France, all of which have the capability to shock and/or delight. And the ladies’s group fixtures are even higher, with three actual heavyweight clashes: Germany, Australia and USA will play all their video games in opposition to each other right here. Sure please.
Marseille will then host a quarter-final and semi-final for every match.
Stade de Good
The Stade De Good
Capability: 36,178Previous tournaments: Euro 2016, 2019 Ladies’s World Cup
The Allianz Riviera opened three years earlier than Euro 2016 and isn’t fairly the smallest of the seven grounds getting used for Olympic soccer this summer time, however not far off.
Because of this, its line-up is in pretty stark distinction to Marseille’s all-star lineup…however they’ll host France males in opposition to Guinea, whereas for the ladies, Colombia v Canada could possibly be an attention-grabbing one. Good is not going to host any knockout video games.
Stade de la Beaujoire (Nantes)
Stade de Nantes (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Capability: 35,322Previous tournaments: 1998 World Cup
That is the smallest floor getting used on the Olympics. Spain v Japan is the standout ladies’s fixture, with the boys’s lineup not particularly compelling. Nantes’ solely recreation outdoors the group stage is the boys’s bronze medal match.
Capability: 41,965Previous tournaments: Euro 1984, 1998 World Cup, 2003 Confederations Cup, Euro 2016
A venerable outdated floor finest recognized to England followers as the positioning of that recreation in opposition to Argentina at France 98, with the Michael Owen aim and David Beckham’s crimson card and the penalty shootout distress and all that.
Canada v New Zealand and France v Canada look enjoyable on the ladies’s aspect, and Argentina v Morocco has ‘shock consequence’ written throughout it. No knockout video games will likely be performed right here.
FAQs
Which stadium is internet hosting the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games?
The vast majority of Paris 2024 will happen on the Stade De France, with the athletics occasions and Closing Ceremony to be hosted on the nationwide stadium.
Many different venues will host occasions.
Why is soccer going down throughout France on the 2024 Olympic Video games?
Paris doesn’t have sufficient venues to host the soccer occasion on the 2024 Olympics. As is custom, the occasion will tour throughout the nation.
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