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Allianz Riviera

Multi-use stadium in Nice, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Allianz Riviera is a multi-use stadium in Nice, France, mostly used for football matches of host OGC Nice and occasionally for home matches of rugby union club Toulon. The stadium has a capacity of 36,178 people and replaced the city's former stadium Stade Municipal du Ray. Construction started in 2011 and was completed in two years. The stadium opened on 22 September 2013 with a match between OGC Nice and Valenciennes.

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“Allianz Riviera” enters the record as multi-use stadium in Nice, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Allianz, Riviera and Multi-use can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Allianz, Riviera and Multi-use.
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“Allianz Riviera” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Allianz, Riviera and Multi-use provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allianz Riviera” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.