Fred-Aubert Stadium
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  Stade Fred Aubert | |
| Address |
1 rue Joseph Le Brix 22 000 Saint-Brieuc |
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| Coordinates | 48°18′14″N 2°26′35″W / 48.304°N 2.443°W |
| Capacity | 10600 |
| Surface | natural grass |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1990 |
| Tenants | |
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Stade briochin En Avant de Guingamp (féminines) | |
The Fred Aubert stadium is a football stadium located at Saint-Brieuc, in France.
Inaugurated in 1990, since then it hosts the home games of the football club Stade Briochin. This stadium also hosts the home matches of the women's section of the En Avant de Guingamp.
- Who was Fred Aubert?
Born the November 19th 1897 at Saint-Brieuc, Frederick Louis Charles (known as Fred) Aubert was President of the Order of lawyers, municipal councilor of Saint-Brieuc and Chairman of Stade Briochin from 1929. On May 14, 1940, he died at the front in the town of Hermeton-sur-Meuse close to Namur (Belgium).
- Presentation
Fred Aubert stadium has two covered grandstands, on the north and the south side. The seats are blue and yellow, corresponding to the home shirt colors of Stade Briochin.
Next to the stadium, teams of the club Stade Briochin train, especially on the synthetic field that borders one of the stands. Many schools also use the area during the hours of EPS.
- Location
The stadium is located along the expressway RN12 (Rennes-Brest) and line 10 of Transports urbains briochins (TUB).
- Anecdotes
- It is in this forum that the club Stade Briochin lived his finest hours in the middle of 1990s.
- The French women's team defeated Serbia (2-0) in qualifying for the European Nations Championship in 2008.
- Despite the age of the stadium, the Brittany national football team has played one match there on a friendly against Congo (3-1).
- During the summer preparation, the Breton professional clubs met for the Paul-Hesran Challenge, created in honor of the former President of the League of Brittany and Stade Briochin. This challenge was won by the Stade Brest in 2010 and 2014, and by the En Avant de Guingamp 2011, 2012 and 2013;
- This stadium will host some matches of the U20 Women's World Cup in 2018 ;
- The stadium hosted, on December 5, 2015, the Stade Brestois (L2) for the 8th round of the Coupe de France. It had been 18 years since Fred Aubert stadium had not received a professional club. The score resulted in a victory for the Griffons 2-0 and qualifying them for the finals of the Round of 32.