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Under Borelli, PSG won its first Division 1 title, and its first two Coupe de France titles. [1] [2] On 14 September 2008, the west stand of the Parc des Princes was renamed Tribune présidentielle Francis Borelli (transl. Francis Borelli presidential stand) in honour of him. [3] [4]
Since its inception, Paris Saint-Germain have played in five main stadiums: the Stade Jean-Bouin, the Stade Georges Lefèvre, the Stade Bauer, the Stade Yves-du-Manoir, and the Parc des Princes, their current home ground. [119] [120] PSG took on Ligue 2 promotion rivals Red Star on 10 November 1973, for the club's first match at the Parc des ...
Lacking a big passionate fanbase, the club began offering cheaper season tickets to young supporters in 1976. These fans were placed in the Kop K, located in the K section of the Paris stand at the Parc des Princes. Following an increase in ticket prices, Kop K supporters moved to the Boulogne stand in 1978, and the Kop of Boulogne (KoB) was born.
The original Parc des Princes under the snow in 1908. Originally called Stade Vélodrome du Parc des Princes, the stadium was inaugurated on 18 July 1897. Situated in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the area was a forested parkland used by the royal family before the French Revolution. This gave the Parc des Princes its name. [9] [12]
In the summer of 1970, an ambitious group of businessmen decided to create a major team in the French capital. [1] [2] Guy Crescent and Pierre-Étienne Guyot chose to merge their virtual side, Paris FC, created in 1969, with Stade Saint-Germain of Henri Patrelle after the team from Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 15 km west of Paris and founded in 1904, won promotion to Division 2.
[2] [5] The latter took control of PSG shortly after, becoming club president and naming fellow Frenchman Francis Borelli as vice-president. Borelli then assumed the presidency in 1978 after Hechter was banned for life from football by the French Football Federation (FFF). [2] [6] He was found guilty of running a ticketing scheme at the Parc ...
It was Marseille's first French Cup victory over the Parisians since April 1991, almost 32 years after they ran away 0–2 winners at the Parc des Princes; their maiden triumph against their rivals at the Stade Vélodrome in a domestic cup match; and their first home win overall in Le Classique since November 2011. [95] [96]
Colombes hosted several French Cup finals and home games of the national football and national rugby union teams into the 1970s. It remained the nation's largest capacity stadium until the renovated Parc des Princes was inaugurated in 1972. Due to increasingly stringent safety regulations, the Colombes' capacity had dropped to under 50,000.