Stade de Geneve

// March 4th, 2008

Stade de Geneve Stadium Information

Name: Stade de Geneve ( completed in 2003 after nearly 3 years of construction )
Inauguration:March 16th 2003
First match: Servette FC - Young Boys Berne
Capacity: 30,084

Club Information:

Club: Servette FC
Inauguration: 1890

Performances:

- won the Swiss Super League 17 times ( last time in 1999 )

- won the Schweizer Cup 7 times

Match schedule at Euro 2008:

Match 2 – Portugal - Turkey Sat. 7th June 20:45

Match 9 – Czech Republic - Portugal, Wed 11th June 18:00

Match 18 – Turkey - Czech Republic, Sun 15th June 20:45

Stade de Geneve :

Stade de Geneve is the stadium where the swiss team Servette FC plays and with a capacity of 30,084 is currently the third biggest all-seater stadium in Switzerland. It was built in Lancy, in the southern part of Geneva and the construction was completed in 2003 after three years of hard work. The most important match that this fairly new stadium hosted was the friendly between Argentina and England on November 12 2005, which England won 3-2.

Geneva

Geneva (in French Genève; in German Genf), the city of Calvin and the center of the Reformation, lies in the extreme western tip of Switzerland at the southwest end of Lake Geneva (in French Lac Léman).

The town is built on moraine hills of varying height on either side of the swiftly flowing Rhône, which here flows out of the lake and is joined on the southwest side of the town by its tributary the Arve, coming down from the Savoy Alps. Lying between the Jura to the northwest and the limestone ridges of Mont Salève and the Voirons to the southeast, Geneva enjoys a magnificent situation on the largest of the Alpine lakes, within sight of the majestic peak of Mont-Blanc.

As a hub of European cultural life in which French savoir-vivre and Swiss solidity are happily combined, the venue of international meetings on the highest level, as well as conventions and exhibitions of all kinds, and not least as a major financial, commercial and industrial city, Geneva has a lively and cosmopolitan atmosphere which makes it perhaps the most attractive town in Switzerland and the one that attracts the greatest number of visitors.

Evidence of its dynamic growth during the last few decades is provided by the large amount of new building in the city itself and in the surrounding area, where a number of residential suburbs and satellite towns of considerable importance have grown up.

Category: Euro 2008 Stadiums
Teams in this article: Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey.