Stadium
Rennes have played on the land where the club's stadium, the Stade de la Route de Lorient, situates itself since 1912. The Stade de la Route de Lorient, commonly referred to as simply Route de Lorient, which is its address, was constructed in 1912. The facility was inaugurated on 15 September 1912 in a match between Rennes and SA du Lycée de Rennes. The Route de Lorient was officially inaugurated a month later when Rennes took on Racing Club de France in front of 3,000 spectators.
The Stade de la Route de Lorient is owned by the city of Rennes and has undergone renovations three times: in 1955, 1983, and 1999. In 1983, the club renovated the stadium in an attempt to resemble the Olympic Stadium in Munich. After nearly four years of renovation, the new stadium was unveiled on 7 March 1987. In 1999, the new renovations, which were designed by architect Bruno Gaudin, cost €37.3 million and took four years to complete. The stadium's inauguration was celebrated twice: in a match between France and Bosnia and Herzegovina in August 2004 and another football match contesting by Rennes and Metz two months later. The current capacity of the stadium is 29,778.
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