Stade du 15-Octobre

Stade du 15-Octobre sits in the Banzart suburb of Bizerte, Tunisia, and carries the weight of a specific day: October 15, 1963, when the last French soldiers left the city. That date gave the ground its name and a history anchored outside the sport. The stadium opened for business in 1990, though Europlan lists 1985. Since then it has hosted clubs, though its biggest moment came during the 2004 African Cup of Nations, when it staged the final. The renovation that made that possible is not credited to a specific budget in the records, but the work is there. The pitch is natural grass, a surface that was due for a change when a project to install artificial turf was approved in late 2020 with a budget of 780,000 TND and construction began in February 2021. An athletics track still surrounds the playing area. The capacity is listed as 16,000 by Soccer365 and The Football Finder, while Wikipedia and StadiumDB suggest 20,000; the lower figure is used here. In the 2023–24 Tunisian Cup, the stadium hosted the quarter-final between CA Bizertin and Sporting Ben Arous on June 21, 2024, and the semi-final against Club Africain on June 26, 2024. The official highest attendance record is not documented. 27, avenue Hédi-Chaker, 7000 Bizerte is the address where the ground sits.