Editing 1998 FIFA World Cup (section)

== Venues ==
France's bid to host the World Cup centered on a national stadium with 80,000 seats and nine other stadiums located across the country.{{sfn|Dauncey|Hare|1999|p=98}} When the finals were originally awarded in July 1992, none of the regional club grounds were of a capacity meeting FIFA's requirements – namely being able to safely seat 40,000.{{sfn|Dauncey|Hare|1999|p=98}} The proposed national stadium, colloquially referred to as the 'Grand stade', met with controversy at every stage of planning; the stadium's location was determined by politics, finance and national symbolism,{{sfn|Dauncey|Hare|1999|p=99}} as [[Mayor of Paris]] [[Jacques Chirac]] successfully negotiated a deal with Prime Minister [[Édouard Balladur]] to bring the Stade de France, as it was now called, to the commune of Saint-Denis just north of the [[Paris|capital city]].{{sfn|Dauncey|Hare|1999|p=99}} Construction on the stadium started in December 1995 and was completed after 26 months of work in November 1997 at a cost of ₣2.67&nbsp;billion.{{sfn|Dauncey|Hare|1999|p=107}}

The choice of stadium locations was drafted from an original list of 14 cities.{{sfn|Dauncey|Hare|1999|p=101}} FIFA and CFO monitored the progress and quality of preparations, culminating in the former providing final checks of the grounds weeks before the tournament commenced. [[Montpellier]] was the surprise inclusion from the final list of cities because of its low urban hierarchy in comparison to [[Strasbourg]], who boasted a better hierarchy and success from its local football team, having been taken over by a consortium. Montpellier however was considered ambitious by the selecting panel to host World Cup matches. The local city and regional authorities in particular had invested heavily into football the previous two decades and were able to measure economic effects, in terms of jobs as early as in 1997.{{sfn|Dauncey|Hare|1999|p=104}} Some of the venues used for this tournament were also used for the previous World Cup in France in [[1938 FIFA World Cup|1938]]. The Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, the Stade Municipal in Toulouse, the Gerland in Lyon, the Parc Lescure in Bordeaux and the Parc des Princes in Paris received the honour of hosting World Cup matches once again in 1998 as they had all done in 1938.

10 stadiums were used for the finals; in addition to nine matches being played at the Stade de France (the most used stadium in the tournament), a further six matches took place in [[Paris Saint-Germain F.C.|Paris Saint-Germain]]'s [[Parc des Princes]], bringing Paris's total matches hosted to 15. France played four of their seven matches in the national stadium; they also played in the country's second and third largest cities, Marseille (hosting 7 total matches) and Lyon (hosting 6 total matches), as well as a Round of 16 knockout match in the northern city of Lens (also hosting 6 total matches). Nantes, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Saint-Etienne also hosted 6 matches in total; all of the stadiums used also hosted knockout round matches.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! [[Paris]] {{small|([[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]])}}
! [[Marseille]]
! [[Paris]]
! [[Lyon]]
|-
| [[Stade de France]]
| [[Stade Vélodrome]]
| [[Parc des Princes]]
| [[Stade de Gerland]]
|-
| {{small|{{Coord|48|55|28|N|2|21|36|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stade de France}}}}
| {{small|{{Coord|43|16|11|N|5|23|45|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stade Vélodrome}}}}
| {{small|{{Coord|48|50|29|N|2|15|11|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Parc des Princes}}}}
| {{small|{{Coord|45|43|26|N|4|49|56|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stade de Gerland}}}}
|-
| Capacity: '''80,000'''
| Capacity: '''60,000'''
| Capacity: '''48,875'''
| Capacity: '''44,000'''
|-
| [[File:Finale Coupe de France 2010-2011 (Lille LOSC vs Paris SG PSG).jpg|180px]]
| [[File:Vue du virage Depé.jpg|180px]]
| [[File:Paris-Parc-des-Princes.jpg|180px]]
| [[File:Avant match - vue de Gerland depuis le virage sud.jpg|180px]]
|-
! [[Lens, Pas-de-Calais|Lens]]
| colspan="3" rowspan="10"|<div style="text-align: center;">
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{{Location map~|France|lat=43.269722|long=5.395833 |label='''[[Marseille]]'''|position=bottom}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=48.841389|long=2.253056 |label='''[[Paris]]'''|position=bottom}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=50.43285 |long=2.814853 |label='''[[Lens, Pas-de-Calais|Lens]]'''}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=45.723889|long=4.832222 |label='''[[Lyon]]'''}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=47.255631|long=-1.525375|label='''[[Nantes]]'''}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=43.583314|long=1.434047 |label='''[[Toulouse]]'''|position=left}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=45.460767|long=4.390117 |label='''[[Saint-Étienne]]'''|position=bottom}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=44.829167|long=-0.597778|label='''[[Bordeaux]]'''}}
{{Location map~|France|lat=43.622181|long=3.812022 |label='''[[Montpellier]]'''|position=top}}
}}</div>
|-
| [[Stade Bollaert-Delelis|Stade Félix-Bollaert]]
|-
| {{small|{{Coord|50|25|58.26|N|2|48|53.47|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stade Félix-Bollaert}}}}
|-
| Capacity: '''41,300'''
|-
| [[File:Stade Felix-Bollaert.jpg|170px]]
|-
! [[Nantes]]
|-
| [[Stade de la Beaujoire]]
|-
| {{small|{{Coord|47|15|20.27|N|1|31|31.35|W|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stade de la Beaujoire}}}}
|-
| Capacity: '''39,500'''
|-
| [[File:Stade de la Beaujoire.jpg|180px]]
|-
! [[Toulouse]]
! [[Saint-Étienne]]
! [[Bordeaux]]
! [[Montpellier]]
|-
| [[Stadium Municipal|Stadium de Toulouse]]
| [[Stade Geoffroy-Guichard]]
| [[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]]
| [[Stade de la Mosson]]
|-
| {{small|{{Coord|43|34|59.93|N|1|26|2.57|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stadium de Toulouse}}}}
| {{small|{{Coord|45|27|38.76|N|4|23|24.42|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stade Geoffroy-Guichard}}}}
| {{small|{{Coord|44|49|45|N|0|35|52|W|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Parc Lescure}}}}
| {{small|{{Coord|43|37|19.85|N|3|48|43.28|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Stade de la Mosson}}}}
|-
| Capacity: '''37,000'''
| Capacity: '''36,000'''
| Capacity: '''35,200'''
| Capacity: '''34,000'''
|-
| [[File:Stadium TFC LOSC mai2013 2.JPG|180px]]
| [[File:AS Saint-Étienne v Olympique Lyonnais, 10 November 2013.jpg|180px]]
| [[File:Stade Chaban-Delmas.jpg|180px]]
| [[File:Australie-Fidji.4.JPG|180px]]
|}