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2007 Rugby World Cup - Hosting
2007 Rugby World Cup - Stadiums
Stadium Stade de France
Full name: Stade De France
Location: Paris, France
Built: 1995
Opened: 1998
Owner: Consortium Stade de France
Operator: Consortium Stade de France
Surface: Grass
Construction cost: €285 million
Architect: Michel Macary | Aymeric Zubléna | Michel Regembal | Claude Constantini
Tenants: France (Football) | France (Rugby) | Stade Français (some games)
Capacity: 80,000
Dimensions: 105 x 70 m
• City: Saint-Denis
Country: France
Region: Ile-de-France
Departement: Seine-Saint-Denis
Population: 95,800 (2005)
Millennium Stadium
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Opened: 1999
Owner: Welsh Rugby Union
Surface: Grass
Construction cost: £126 million
Tenants: Welsh Rugby Union (National team) | Football Association of Wales (National team)
Capacity: 74,500
• City: Cardiff
Country: Wales (United Kingdom)
Population: 321,000 (2006)
Murrayfield
Location: Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland
Opened: 1925
Renovated: 1995
Owner: Scottish Rugby Union
Surface: Underheated Grass
Construction cost: £50 million (reconstruction)
Architect: Connor Milligan
Tenants: Scottish Rugby Union
Capacity: 67,500
• City: Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Population: 448,624 (2001)
Stade Vélodrome
Full name: Stade Vélodrome
Location: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Built: 1937
Opened: June 1937
Renovated: 1984 and 1998
Owner: City of Marseille
Surface: Grass
Architect: Henri Ploquin
Tenants: Olympique de Marseille
• City: Marseille
Country: France
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department: Bouches-du-Rhône
Population: 1,349,772 (1999)
Parc des Princes
Full name: Parc des Princes
Location: Paris, France
Built: 1897
Opened: 18 July 1897
Renovated: 1932, 1972
Owner: City of Paris
Operator: SESE
Surface: Grass
Architect: Roger Taillibert
Tenants: Paris Saint-Germain FC
Capacity: 49,000
• City: Paris
Country: France
Region: Île-de-France
Population: 2,153,600 (Metro area: 12,067,000)
Stade Félix Bollaert
Full name: Stade Félix Bollaert
Location: Lens, France
Inauguration: 1932
Address: Avenue Alfred Maës 62 300 Lens
Tenants: RC Lens
Capacity: 41,233
• City: Lens
Country: France
Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department: Pas-de-Calais (sous-préfecture)
Population: 36,823 (1999)
Stade Gerland
Full name: Stade de Gerland
Location: Lyon, France
Address: 353, Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 69007 VIIè Arrondissement, Lyon
Built: 1914
Opened: 1926
Expanded: 1960, 1980, 1998
Owner: Olympique Lyonnais
Operator: Olympique Lyonnais
Surface: Grass
Construction cost: € 32.7m
Architect: Tony Garnier | René Gagis (renovation)
Tenants: Olympique Lyonnais
Capacity: 43,051
Dimensions: 112 x 65m
• City: Lyon
Country: France
Region: Rhône-Alpes
Department: Rhône (69)
Population: 466,400(1999)
Stade de la Beaujoire
Full name: Stade de la Beaujoire - Louis Fonteneau
Location: Nantes, France
Inauguration: 1984
Surface: Grass (105m x 68m)
Tenants: FC Nantes
Capacity: 38,285
• City: Nantes
Country: France
Region: Pays de la Loire
Department: Loire-Atlantique
Population: 280,600 (metro area: 790,314)
Stadium de Toulouse
Full name: Stadium Municipal
Location: Toulouse, France
Inauguration: 1937
Tenants: Toulouse FC
Capacity: 35,472
• City: Nantes
Country: France
Region Midi-Pyrénées
Department Haute-Garonne
Population: 435,000 (metro area: 1,117, 000)
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Full name: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Location: Saint-Étienne, Loire, France
Built: 1930
Opened: 13 September 1931
Renovated: 1984, 1998
Surface: Grass
Tenants: AS Saint-Étienne
Capacity: 35,616
• City: Saint-Étienne
Capacity: 36,000
Country: France
Region: Rhône-Alpes
Department: Loire
Population: 175,700
Stade Chaban-Delmas
Full name: Stade Chaban-Delmas
Location: Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Built: 1930
Opened: 12 June 1938
Renovated: 1935, 1987, 1998
Surface: Grass
Architect: René Buthaud, Jacques d'Welles, Raoul Jourde
Former names: Parc Lescure
Tenants: FC Girondins de Bordeaux
Capacity: 34,327
• City: Bordeaux
Capacity: 34,500
Country: France
Region: Aquitaine
Department: Gironde
Population: 230,600 (metro area: 995,039)
Stade de la Mosson
Full name: Stade de la Mosson
Location: Montpellier, France
Opened: 1972
Tenants: Montpellier HSC
Capacity: 34,327
Dimensions: 105 x 68m
• City: Montpellier
Capacity: 32,950
Country: France
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Department: Hérault
Population: 244,300
2007 Rugby World Cup - Teams
France, South Africa, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, New Zealand, Australia, England, Namibia, Argentina, Canada, United States, Japan, Italy, Romania, Georgia, Portugal, Samoa, Fiji and Tonga.
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