Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez

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Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez
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Inside view of the Palais des Sports in 2016
Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez
Location Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Coordinates 48°53′34″N2°12′37″E / 48.8927441°N 2.2103631°E / 48.8927441; 2.2103631
Capacity Basketball: 3,000
Surface Parquet
Construction
Renovated2015
Expanded2015
Tenants
Nanterre 92 (Basketball)

Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez, or Palais des Sports de Nanterre, is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, near Paris. The arena is named after former minister Maurice Thorez. The capacity of the arena for basketball games is 3,000. It is the home arena of the French League basketball club Nanterre 92 for French national domestic league games and also for EuroCup and Champions League games.

History

The arena's original seating capacity of 1,594 for basketball games was increased to 3,000 with a 5 million construction works and updates renovation project that was completed in 2015. The renovation project was approved in order for the arena to meet the arena standards of the top tier French Pro A League, and the seating capacity requirements of Europe's second tier level basketball competition, the EuroCup. The newly updated and expanded arena, scheduled to be re-opened in September 2015, [1] [2] was finally re-opened in October 2015. [3] The Palace was one of the two venues of the 2017 FIBA Europe Cup Final.

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References

  1. "Catch-and-Shoot.com La mairie de Nanterre a validé l'agrandissement du Palais des Sports" (in French). Archived from the original on June 29, 2013.
  2. "News - PRO Parking à la JSF Nanterre" (in French).
  3. à 00h46, Par Le 18 octobre 2015 (October 17, 2015). "EN IMAGES. Basket : le nouveau palais-des-sports de Nanterre a fait le plein". leparisien.fr.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)