If Eirik Horneland had not attended the Coupe de France match against Marseille (0-4) in the stands, he would undoubtedly not have understood, this Saturday against Reims, why the Stéphanois call their stadium, the Chaudron. Indeed, Geoffroy-Guichard will ring hollow for the reception of the Rémois since according to our information, a little less than 15 000 supporters will decorate the spans of the Cauldron. If sportingly the Greens have been absent since the start of the season, they have built all of their four successes in the championship at home and have, before the double reception of Marseille in Ligue 1 then in the Coupe de France, a string of notable performances at the house.
If the two setbacks against the Olympians cooled the ardor of a few occasional supporters, it was above all the LFP Disciplinary Commission which got the better of this first drop in attendance of the season, by inflicting two matches last December suspension for the Paret and Snella stands. Thus, the matches against Reims (J16) and Nantes (J18) will be held without the Kop Nord and the Kop Sud. The return to the stadium for the residents of the two stands will take place at the beginning of February for the reception of Rennes (D21). Crowds suffer. A sanction which comes after the use of numerous smoke bombs during the meeting between AS Saint-Étienne and Olympique de Marseille on the 13th day of the championship. As a reminder, that evening, more than 400 pyrotechnic devices were identified by the match delegate. The match was punctually stopped in the 88th minute of play following a massive burst of smoke in Kop Nord for the 25th anniversary of the MF91 Avant-Garde.
With ten sold-out matches in 2024, ASSE completed a calendar year with nearly 600,000 supporters present during home matches. It will begin 2025 with its lowest attendance since the match against Le Havre at the start of the season (16,958 spectators). A match which was also played without the Kops at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium.
Crowds at Geoffroy-Guichard in 2024:
Saint-Étienne – Laval: 18,106 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Amiens: 18,612 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Troyes: 17,075 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Annecy: 21,179 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Auxerre: 36,277 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Concarneau: 37,737 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Bordeaux: 35,317 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Caen: 35,445 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Rodez: 35,701 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Rodez (Play-off 2): 36,048 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Metz (Barrage): 35,536 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Le Havre: 16,958 spectators (Kop Nord and Kop Sud closed)
Saint-Étienne – Lille: 22,144 spectators (Kop Sud closed)
Saint-Étienne – Auxerre: 31,445 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Lens: 36,832 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Strasbourg: 33,043 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Montpellier: 33,008 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Marseille: 35,350 spectators
Saint-Étienne – Marseille (Coupe de France): 34,547 spectators
