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The Saint-Symphorien stadium is the main sports venue in the Metz area.
It is a stadium devoted mainly to football and used by the Football Club de Metz.
It is the largest stadium in Lorraine and, since 2021, the largest stadium in the Grand Est region, ahead of the Meinau stadium in Strasbourg.
The venue sets its attendance record with 28,766 spectators on December 7, 1991 for a Metz-Marseille match.
Football Club de Metz, commonly referred to as FC Metz or simply Metz, is a French association football club based in Metz, Lorraine.
FC Metz was founded in 1932 by the amalgamation of two amateur athletic clubs, and shortly thereafter became a professional team it is one of the oldest professional football teams in France.
Its roots trace back further, to the SpVgg Metz club, formed in 1905 when the city of Metz was part of the German Empire.
SpVgg played in the tier-one Westkreis-Liga for a season in 1913–14, before the outbreak of the First World War stopped all play.
Some players of this club were part of the Cercle Athlétique Messin in 1919, which went on to become FC Metz in 1932.
Messin was a leading club in the Division d'Honneur – Lorraine, taking out league titles in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1929 and 1931.
Its official colours are grenat (maroon) and white, from which the team derives its nickname Les Grenats.
The team's crest features the Lorraine cross, symbolic of the team's regional affiliation, and the dragon called the Graoully, which in local legend was tamed by Saint Clement of Metz.
FC Metz has never won the French championship its best result was a second-place finish in 1998, behind RC Lens.
The title race lasted until the ultimate fixture, however Metz never recovered from a 0–2 loss against Lens on their home turf.
Metz won the Coupe de France twice, in 1984 and 1988, the first of these victories enabled it to qualify for the European Cup Winners' Cup where it achieved arguably the team's greatest moment, an upset of FC Barcelona in the first round of the competition in October 1984.
It lost 4–2 at home in the first leg but won 4–1 away in the return leg, thus qualifying 6–5 on aggregate, making the FC Metz unique among the French teams who have beaten Barcelona at the Nou Camp.
FC Metz also won the Coupe de la Ligue twice, in 1986 and 1996, and has made a total of ten appearances in European tournaments.