Stade Léo-Lagrange (Besançon)

Stade Léo-Lagrange
Earlier names
	Stade de la Gibelotte
Data
place	Besançon , France
Coordinates	47 ° 14 '38.2 " N , 6 ° 0' 11.1" E Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '38.2 " N , 6 ° 0' 11.1" E
owner	City of Besançon
start of building	1936
opening	1939
Renovations	2003-2005
surface	Natural grass
architect	M. Bouhana
capacity	11,500 seats
Societies)
	RC Besançon;
Events
	RC Besançon games; UCI Track World Championships 1980; Games of the 1996 European Under-18 Football Championship ;

The Stade Léo-Lagrange is the municipal football stadium in the French city of Besançon , Doubs department , in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region . It is the home of the RC Besançon football club . Opened in 1939 under the name Stade de la Gibelotte , it now seats 11,500 people. It is part of a larger sports park. It gets its current name from the French politician Léo Lagrange (* 1900, † 1940).

The stadium used to have a cycling track . In 1964 Jacques Anquetil tried to set a new world hour record on the track . In 1980 the track cycling world championships took place in the oval . The track was later removed. On December 17, 1994 the French national rugby union team and the Canadian national rugby union team met here (28: 9). In 1996, the U-18 European Football Championships were held in France and Luxembourg . Four games took place in Besançon; including the game for third place and the final between France and Spain (2-1).

The attendance record dates back to March 10, 1979. For the game of RC Besançon against AS Saint-Étienne , 24,000 spectators came to the stadium.

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