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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 21/06/2026 00:03:00

Home to Olympique de Marseille, the Orange Velodrome is the largest club football stadium in France and one of the best known in the country. It stands on the Boulevard Michelet, south of the city centre, and has been the focus of football in Marseille since the 1930s. The stadium opened in 1937 and takes its name from the cycling track that originally ran around the pitch, a reminder that it was built as a multi-sport arena before football came to dominate. Over the decades it has been enlarg...