The Stade Velodrome is a football stadium in Marseille, in southern France, and the home of Olympique de Marseille. It opened in the late 1930s and was named after the cycle track that originally surrounded the pitch. The stadium was used for the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups and for the European Championships of 1984 and 2016, and it has been enlarged and rebuilt several times. A major renovation completed in 2014 added a curved roof over the stands, and it became the biggest club stadium in France, with a capacity of about sixty-seven thousand. The fans of Marseille are known for the intense atmosphere they create there.
Before and after
- 28 May 1937Founding of Volkswagen
- 28 May 1937Construction of Golden Gate Bridge
- 1 June 1937Birth of Morgan Freeman
- 4 June 1937Battle of Pochonbo
- 13 June 1937Construction of Stade Vélodrome
- 23 June 1937Birth of Martti Ahtisaari
- from July 1937 to April 1945Construction of Buchenwald concentration camp
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 September 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 July 1937Marco Polo Bridge incident
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