Stade Jean-Laffon, Rugby and football stadium in the Vernet district, Perpignan, France
Stade Jean-Laffon is a stadium on Carrer del Meridià in the Alt Vernet district of Perpignan, between Avenue de l'Aérodrome and Avenue du Languedoc. It has a capacity of 7,050 spectators and hosts rugby league and football. It is the regular home of Union Treiziste Catalane and Perpignan Canet Football Club.
The stadium on the route de Thuir hosted Perpignan rugby union clubs from 1908 to 1940. On 12 February 1922 it was named after Jean Laffon, an AS Perpignan vice-president killed in the First World War, and a war memorial to him and seven club players was erected inside. The club moved to the newly acquired Stade Aimé Giral in 1940.
The stadium is named after Jean Laffon, an AS Perpignan vice-president born in Perpignan in 1884 and killed at Cerisy in the Somme in 1916. A war memorial inside the ground honours him and the seven club players who died in the First World War. Rugby league's Catalans played here, and the 1950 French Championship final drew 20,000 spectators.
The stadium sits in the Alt Vernet district, on Carrer del Meridià between Avenue de l'Aérodrome and Avenue du Languedoc, in Perpignan. It is used for rugby league and football and is the regular home of Union Treiziste Catalane and Perpignan Canet Football Club. Current capacity is 7,050 spectators.
The stadium's record attendance came on 26 December 1948, when 14,000 spectators saw the Catalans de France beat Australia 20-5. The ground's listed capacity is now 7,050, and the only full test match played there was France-New Zealand on 18 November 1961 before 9,520 people.
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