After decades of playing in the 1920s-built, 40,000-seater Stade de Gerland, Lyon's multichampionship-winning football team Olympique Lyonnais inaugurated its massive new 59,000-seat home stadium in early 2016, in time to host the summer 2016 UEFA European football championship. Buy match tickets online, at the stadium or from the club's downtown boutique, OL Store Lyon Centre.
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