The Parc des Princes (translation: Park of the Princes) is a stadium in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It is the home of football (soccer) team Paris Saint-Germain, and formerly the national stadium of France.
The current Parc des Princes was opened in June 1972, designed by the architect Roger Taillibert. There have been two previous stadia on the site, opened 1897 and 1932, both essentially velodromes.
The rugby union club Racing Club de France played there between 1984 and 1990. Another rugby union club, Stade Français, play across the road at the Stade Jean Bouin .
The Parc des Princes saw probably the biggest disappointment of the French national football team. It was on November 17, 1993, when Les Coqs were beaten by the Bulgarian team with a 90th minute goal by Emil Kostadinov. The 1:2 defeat robbed France of a place in the 1994 world championship in the USA.
The stadium was replaced by the Stade de France as France's national stadium upon the construction of that stadium for the 1998 Football World Cup.
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