Six Nations Championship at the Stade de France

The Stade de France hosts two France matches in the Six Nations Championship, the most followed event in international rugby, drawing crowds of close to eighty thousand spectators to Saint-Denis for each home game.

The Six Nations Championship, an annual competition between France, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Italy, is one of the most followed sporting events of the French winter, with each home match for the French team at the Stade de France drawing a crowd close to the stadium's maximum capacity of around eighty thousand spectators. The 2027 tournament includes two home matches for France, against Wales on 6 February and against Scotland on 21 February, two dates to remember for anyone planning a trip to Paris at this time.

The Stade de France, in Saint-Denis north of Paris, is one of the largest sports stadiums in Europe, regularly used for the biggest events in French football and rugby as well as for exceptionally large concerts. Its location outside central Paris, although served by RER lines B and D, calls for particular transport planning for anyone not staying close to Saint-Denis.

On international match nights of this scale, the whole area around the Stade de France experiences predictable road congestion, particularly on the A1 motorway and the Périphérique at Porte de la Chapelle, as well as huge crowds at the Stade de France-Saint-Denis and La Plaine-Stade de France RER stations, served by lines D and B respectively, which carry most of the spectators on the way there and back.

Guests attending these matches with a premium hospitality package, often including access to private reception areas before and after the match, naturally prefer private transport for their whole journey, a hospitality format particularly developed in international rugby, where the pre-match conviviality is very much part of the experience these guests are looking for.

For international visitors from the other nations in the tournament, particularly Welsh and Scottish supporters who traditionally travel in large numbers to follow their team abroad, combining an airport transfer on arrival with dedicated transport to the Stade de France on match day makes for a relaxed trip centred on the sporting event, often combined with discovering the capital over several days.

The firmest recommendation for any trip to the Stade de France on a big match night remains to avoid, as far as possible, using a personal vehicle without a chauffeur who knows the bypass routes precisely, and LimoAirportGroup always arranges the drop-off and pick-up of its clients at access points optimised for each match night's specific traffic arrangements, for a return to Paris or to the airport without excessive waiting in the massive flow of spectators leaving the stadium at the same time.