Stade Olympique de Sousse
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Étoile Sportive du Sahel vs Club AfricainSat 11 Jan 2025 00:00
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Tunisia
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Sousse, Tunisia
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| 11 Jan | Étoile Spor  | - |  Club Africai |
| 01 Feb | Étoile Spor | - |  US Monastir |
| 12 Feb | Étoile Spor | - |  AS Soliman |
| 01 Mar | Étoile Spor | - |  ES Métlaoui |
| 08 Mar | Étoile Spor | - |  CA Bizertin |
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The Stade olympique de Sousse (Arabic: الملعب الأولمبي بسوسة) is a multi-purpose stadium in Sousse, Tunisia. It is used by the football team Étoile du Sahel, and was used for the 2004 African Cup of Nations. The stadium holds 28,000 people. It hosts within it the meetings played by the football team of the city: Étoile sportive du Sahel (ESS).
For many decades, Sousse footballers knew only the clay surfaces and knew the turf surfaces only when the stadium was inaugurated with an initial capacity of 10,000 places. It passes over the years to 15,000 seats and is then expanded again on the occasion of the 1994 African Cup of Nations with 6,000 additional seats to reach a capacity of 21,000 seats; A luminous panel is installed at the same time. The last expansion was carried out in 1999 to bring the capacity of the stadium to 28,000 seats for the 2001 Mediterranean Games, a reorganization of the gallery of honor was carried out, from a capacity of 70 to 217 places. The stadium has yet to be expanded to reach the capacity of 49,000 seats after the announcement the president of the club Moez Driss in May 2008.
It hosted 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship, 1994 African Cup of Nations, 2001 Mediterranean Games and 2004 African Cup of Nations.
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