Stade Jean-Bouin
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris, France — opened October 1925, 3 rugby league games hosted, home of Stade Français (rugby union), tenant since 1995; Paris FC (football) since 2025; no rugby league club has ever been a tenant.
Sourcing caveat: The 6 June 2026 Catalans Dragons v Wigan Warriors fixture (16-40, attendance 12,525) was independently re-verified via a direct fetch of Rugby League Project's own venue results page, which confirms it as a genuine completed match rather than a data error — corroborated further by Le Rugbynistère, Wigan Today and Sky Sports, which agree on the 40-16 scoreline (one further general source gave a conflicting 40-10 score and is treated as the less reliable outlier). The exact year of the France v England Test (score 12-66) could not be established from any source checked and is left unstated.
Ground facts
| Opened | October 1925 (Named for Jean Bouin (1888-1914), French athlete and Olympic 5,000m silver medallist; expanded in 1975, then substantially reconstructed 2010-2013. Not to be confused with the former Stade Jean-Bouin in Angers (renamed Stade Raymond Kopa in 2017) or a similarly-named ground in Nîmes.) |
| Home club | Stade Français (rugby union), tenant since 1995; Paris FC (football) since 2025; no rugby league club has ever been a tenant |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 3 |
| Top recorded crowd | 12,525 |
| Capacity | approximately 12,000 before the 2010-2013 reconstruction; 20,000 today |
| Test matches hosted | 2 |
| Surface | artificial turf |
| First rugby league match | 17 November 2007 — France 14-22 New Zealand, senior international Test (attendance 6,781) |
| Years used | 2007–2026 |
| Location | Paris, Île-de-France |
Name history
- Stade Jean-Bouin — 1925–present, no other name found for this Paris venue
Rugby league history
Stade Jean-Bouin's most recent and highest-attendance rugby league occasion came on 6 June 2026, when Catalans Dragons hosted Wigan Warriors in a Super League fixture (Wigan won 40-16) — the club's first Super League home game staged in Paris rather than Perpignan, deliberately timed to mark Catalans' 20th Super League anniversary and 30 years of French clubs in the British league system. The match was widely reported as historic in the British rugby league press. This sits alongside two earlier, much smaller-drawing full France international Tests, against New Zealand (2007) and England (year unconfirmed), reflecting the code's ordinarily modest following in the French capital compared to its traditional southern French heartlands.
The long-standing home of Stade Français (rugby union) and, since 2025, Paris FC (football).
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 17 November 2007 — France 14-22 New Zealand (6,781)
- 13 June (year not confirmed) — France 12-66 England, international Test (7,600)
Pre-dates the site's structured match-by-match records for these competitions, so listed here as sourced facts rather than linked match pages.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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