Stade Michel d'Ornano

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Michel d'Ornano Stadium is a football stadium in Caen, Calvados, France. This is the city's main sports equipment. Inaugurated on 6 June 1993 by Prime Minister Édouard Balladur, the stadium has since been the site of the Stade Malherbe Caen, replacing the Venoix stadium He is named after Michel d'Ornano, President of the Calvados General Council, who died in 1991.

In addition to the SM Caen, it hosts various sporting events, including meetings of the French women's teams and hopes and, thanks to its regional vocation, the prestigious matches of other Norman clubs in the Coupe de France. Originally designed to gather 22,864 spectators, the capacity of the enclosure is quickly reduced to about 21,500 seats. Several episodes of work – the removal of standing places in 1994, the renovation of the visitors' gallery and then the honorary gallery for the 2014 World Equestrian Games, the layout of lodges in 2016 and 2017 – gradually brings it down to about 20,300 places, perhaps even 19,925.