Stade de France is sometimes used for rock music concerts.
 The 82,000-seat stadium, featuring a retractable roof and slide-out pitch, was to be built on a former horse racing track in vry, about 25 km (16 mi) south of Paris
 Stade Franais's president, Max Guazzini, publicly said that the club would have to sell 25,000 to 30,000 tickets to break even

