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Stade Émile-Stahl

Stadium in Strasbourg, France.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ3496260 ↗
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The Stade Émile-Stahl is a stadium located in the municipality of Strasbourg in France. With a capacity of 3,000 places (of which 600 places are in the grandstand), its resident club is ASPV Strasbourg. It is the second largest football stadium in the city, after the Stade de la Meinau.

History

The stadium was built around 1920. ASPV Strasbourg settled there during World War II. Formerly called the Stade de la Porte de Kehl, on 22 August 2009, it was renamed to the Stade Émile-Stahl in honor of a former officer of the resident club. This name change was inaugurated by the Mayor of Strasbourg, Roland Ries, accompanied by the club president and other personalities.

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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 Dec 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3496260. Authority coordinates are 48.579, 7.780. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1920 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stade Émile-Stahl” 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.