Buy Angers SCO vs Marseille for the 2026/27 season and the date to work to is Sunday 18 October 2026, kick-off 15:00 local time at the Stade Raymond-Kopa. This is matchday seven, one of four or five fixtures a season that concentrate national demand on a ground holding under 20,000. Angers SCO vs Marseille tickets sit in a market where the host averages around 12,575 in a 19,800 stadium, so the margin between a full house and a sell-out is thin to begin with.
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The clubs have met twenty-six times in the French top flight at this ground, going back to December 1956. The hosts have won nine, drawn eight and lost nine, though the recent run belongs firmly to the visitors. Anyone following Angers SCO through the campaign will know this is one of the dates that behaves differently from the rest of the calendar.
For a buyer the decision is which tribune to be in. The Raymond-Kopa has been rebuilt stand by stand since 2018 and the gap between its lowest and highest price zones is narrower than at most Ligue 1 grounds, which changes the calculation about where the value sits.
Marseille bring the largest travelling following in France to a ground that cannot absorb it. They finished fifth in Ligue 1 in 2025/26 on 59 points and enter the Europa League league phase this season, so the fixture carries a visiting side with European standing rather than a mid-table equivalent.
Supply is the constraint. Angers sell roughly 5,000 season books against 19,800 places, which sounds comfortable until you account for how the club has structured its stands for 2026/27. The whole of the Tribune Coubertin has been handed to home supporters with a Fan Zone added on its terrace, which sharpens demand for the lowest-priced seats in the ground.
The away allocation then removes another slice. Article 511 of the Ligue de Football Professionnel regulations sets the visiting sector at 5 per cent of capacity with a cap of 1,000 places unless the two clubs agree otherwise. A purpose-built away space opened here for the 2026/27 season. Marseille's ultra groups routinely absorb an entire allocation before it reaches public sale, which pushes travelling supporters towards home sections instead.
A Sunday 15:00 kick-off widens the catchment further. It is the slot that suits a day trip from Nantes, Le Mans, Tours or Rennes. A meaningful share of demand at this ground comes from people building a weekend in the Anjou around the fixture rather than the fixture alone. The same is true of the visit of Lyon to the Raymond-Kopa in April, though that one falls later in the season when the table has taken shape.
Yes. Angers make it more straightforward than most French clubs. There is no compulsory paid membership card and no ballot. What sits in place of one is a tiered season book: renewal prices are frozen below new-subscriber rates, with supporters who attended at least four matches the previous campaign qualifying for the renewal rate.
The one genuine gateway is the KOP subscription. That flat rate for the Tribune Coubertin is sold through HelloAsso and administered by Kop de la Butte, the ultra group founded in 1992, rather than through the club box office. It is a supporter-group product with its own sign-up route, not a general-sale option for a visitor booking a single fixture.
Everything else the club sells for individual matches runs through its own box office, which has used dynamic pricing since June 2025. That means the face value on a Marseille fixture moves upward as the date approaches rather than sitting at a published band, which is worth knowing before you assume waiting will save money.
Individual seats through verified sellers carry no residency test, no prior-attendance requirement and no supporter-group affiliation. Season-book holders who cannot make a particular Sunday release their places, which is how seats in the newer stands reach the wider market at all. For a visitor that is often the only practical route into the Tribune Saint-Léonard for a fixture of this size.
Five variables set the number on a Raymond-Kopa listing. Stand position is the floor, though the spread here is compressed by Ligue 1 standards. Demand adjusts it sharply for the four or five fixtures the whole country wants to watch. Timing matters, since prices are softest across September and October then firm through the winter.
Competition context lifts everything once league position is at stake. Hospitality runs on a separate scale entirely.
For the top of the market, the visit of Paris Saint-Germain to the Raymond-Kopa in January prices clear of everything else on the calendar. Marseille sit immediately below it.
| Ticket Type | Resale Price Range | Best For | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behind the goals | £45 – £85 | Atmosphere, lower budgets | Tribune Coubertin and Tribune Colombier, the entry point at this ground for any fixture |
| Longside standard, upper | £70 – £120 | Reading the shape of the game | Upper blocks of the Tribune Saint-Léonard, covered, full view of both penalty areas |
| Lower tier, central | £95 – £175 | Proximity to the play | Saint-Léonard lower and the central Jean-Bouin blocks, closest rows to the touchline |
| Premium seating | £150 – £280+ | Comfort with lounge access | Premium seating on the Jean-Bouin side, the presidential stand, entry through its own gate |
| Hospitality and VIP | £200 – £450+ | Groups, corporate guests, occasion buyers | Boxes and the main lounge in the Saint-Léonard, plus the Salon Colombier and Bodéga 1919 behind the far goal |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift closer to the match.
Four tribunes ring the pitch. The Tribune Jean-Bouin is the presidential side, carrying the ground's former name, since this was the Stade Jean-Bouin until 2017. It was refurbished in 2015, with public entry through Porte R on Boulevard Pierre-de-Coubertin and hospitality through Porte S. From 2026/27 its right flank houses the new away section.
The Tribune Saint-Léonard is the newest big stand, rebuilt between 2020 and 2022 with twenty-five boxes plus a panoramic restaurant behind it. Behind the goals sit the Tribune Coubertin, which is the home end, plus the Tribune Colombier, rebuilt in 2018. Older guides describe a different ground, because three of the four stands have been replaced or refurbished inside a decade.
| Area | What It Suits | Pricing Bracket | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tribune Coubertin | Noise, drums, continuous singing | £45 – £80 | Home to Kop de la Butte since 1992 and Brigade Ouest 49 since 2007. The whole stand is home supporters only for 2026/27, with a Fan Zone on its terrace |
| Tribune Jean-Bouin, central | Main-stand comfort, tactical viewing | £110 – £190 | The presidential side at the halfway line, hospitality access, public entry via Porte R |
| Tribune Saint-Léonard, lower | A balanced view close to the pitch | £85 – £150 | The newest stand in the ground, rebuilt between 2020 and 2022, boxes and restaurant directly behind |
| Tribune Saint-Léonard, upper | Full view with cover | £70 – £120 | Elevated longside angle, usually the easiest section to fill for a pair or a group of four |
| Tribune Colombier | Families, quieter viewing, lower budgets | £45 – £85 | Behind the far goal, rebuilt in 2018, with the Salon Colombier and Bodéga 1919 hospitality spaces attached |
| Away sector, Jean-Bouin right flank | Travelling Marseille support only | Set by the visiting club | Purpose-built for 2026/27 with its own access, sold through the visiting club rather than the host, photo identification compulsory |
Neutral buyers and anyone undecided should look at the upper Saint-Léonard rather than either end. You get a complete view of the pitch under cover, an allocated seat rather than a scramble, plus the sound from the Coubertin carrying across the width of the ground. The compressed price ladder here means the step up from an end to a longside costs less than it would almost anywhere else in the division.
| Hospitality Option | Typical Buyer | Main Appeal |
|---|---|---|
| Premium seat, Jean-Bouin side | Couples, solo travellers marking the trip | Padded seating on the presidential side with lounge access before kick-off and at half-time |
| Box or main lounge, Saint-Léonard | Corporate groups, guests being hosted | Twenty-five boxes plus a panoramic restaurant in the newest stand, seated dining with the pitch in view |
| Salon Colombier | Small groups wanting a room of their own | Behind the far goal, a self-contained space with catering away from the main concourse |
| Bodéga 1919 | Buyers who want the occasion more than the boardroom | The club's informal hospitality product, named for the 1919 founding year |
Hospitality here is spread across three stands rather than concentrated in one, a consequence of the ground being rebuilt in phases rather than all at once. Hospitality gates open earlier than general admission and stay open after the final whistle, so a package buys you the afternoon rather than the ninety minutes.
Scale works differently at a ground this size. There is less premium inventory in absolute terms than at a Ligue 1 club with a 40,000 stadium, though there is also less competition for it, since corporate demand in the Anjou is smaller than in Paris or Lyon. Packages here tend to remain available later into the cycle than the terrace does.
| Delivery Type | What to Confirm |
|---|---|
| Mobile QR ticket | That it has been added to your Apple or Google Wallet before you travel, since this is the club's primary format |
| Print-at-home document | That you have an A4 printed copy as well as the file, because scanning from paper is quicker at a busy turnstile |
| Thermal box-office ticket | The collection window and the address, plus whether identification is needed at handover |
| Courier to a home or hotel address | That the address is right and somebody can sign, which is the weak point for a hotel booked for the same day |
Read the listing notes before committing, because which of those formats you receive depends on the seller. A valid ticket admits one person and staff may verify identity. Any concessionary ticket requires documentary proof at the turnstile. Photo identification is compulsory in the away sector.
Timings here are firmer than at many grounds. For a 15:00 start the Fan Zone opens at 13:00 and the turnstiles at 13:30, while streets around the ground close two hours before kick-off. Gates shut at half-time rather than staying open. Wearing the colours of any club other than the hosts is prohibited in home areas, a rule that is enforced.
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Step1
Pick the tribune before the price
Coubertin for noise, Jean-Bouin for the main-stand view, Saint-Léonard for a balance of the two, Colombier for the lowest outlay. Because the price ladder here is compressed, filtering on cost alone tells you far less than it would at a bigger ground.
Step2
Set up your buyer profile
Browsing works without signing in, though you will need to create an account to complete an order or save a search. Doing it in advance saves minutes at the point where minutes decide which stand you end up in.
Step3
Filter by quantity before anything else
Set the number of seats first. Listings that cannot be split to your group size drop out immediately, which stops you building a plan around a set of four that was only ever sold as a pair.
Step4
Read the tribune name, not just the block
Jean-Bouin is the presidential side and the higher bands. Saint-Léonard is the newest stand opposite. Coubertin and Colombier sit behind the goals. The tribune tells you more about the afternoon than the block number does.
Step5
Weigh the upper Saint-Léonard against the ends
The step from an end to an upper longside is a smaller price jump at this ground than at most in the division. Run that comparison properly rather than assuming the ends are the only affordable option.
Step6
Match the delivery method to your trip
A mobile QR ticket suits anyone arriving the day before. Courier delivery needs a reliable address. Box-office collection works if you reach Angers with time in hand. Pick the method that fits your itinerary rather than reshaping the trip around the ticket.
Step7
Finish the order in one sitting
Listings on one of the season's marquee dates move while you deliberate. Once the tribune, the quantity and the delivery method all work, complete the purchase instead of opening a second tab to keep looking.
Step8
Follow the order through to delivery
Use track order to watch the status from confirmation to the ticket reaching you. A confirmed order still undelivered several weeks out is normal in France, where clubs issue digital tickets close to the date.
Angers is straightforward from Paris and awkward from anywhere else. Paris-Montparnasse to Angers-Saint-Laud covers roughly 263 kilometres in as little as 1 hour 21 minutes, with around twenty services a day. From the station the ground is about 2.6 kilometres away, a thirty-minute walk by the club's own reckoning or four to five minutes by taxi. The tramway does not reach the stadium: the nearest useful stop is Montaigne on Line B, about twenty minutes' walk away.
The practical public option is the Irigo bus, with lines 1, 5, 10 and 40 stopping at Saumuroise five minutes from the turnstiles, plus a dedicated matchday shuttle from the park-and-ride sites running from an hour before kick-off. Drivers take the A87 to exit 18, though with the surrounding streets closing two hours out, parking well in advance is the only workable plan.
For delivery, a mobile QR ticket or a courier to your hotel are the two methods that suit an overseas buyer. Seats together are worth requesting rather than assuming, because sets of three or more thin out faster than singles on a fixture of this profile. Build flexibility into the date as well: Ligue 1 confirms days and kick-off times only weeks after the summer calendar release, so a trip built around one match deserves refundable travel. Anyone wanting the return instead can look at Marseille vs Angers SCO in February.
This is not a rivalry in the way the Marseille calendar usually means the word. It is something rarer: the fixture that produced the largest crowd this ground has ever held. The record of 22,989 was set against Marseille on 26 April 1969, in a configuration the stadium no longer has. It has stood for more than half a century.
The league record between them at this address is closer than the wider head-to-head suggests. Twenty-six Ligue 1 meetings here since December 1956 have produced nine home wins, eight draws and nine defeats, with Angers scoring 38 against 36. The hosts shade the goals despite the even record, which is not what the wider head-to-head would lead you to expect. The clubs met most regularly during Angers' strongest era, the stretch from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s that produced a fourth-place finish in Division 1 and the club's only European campaign, a UEFA Cup tie with Berliner FC Dynamo in 1972.
What has changed is the recent balance. Between August 1979 and December 2020 Angers went six home league meetings with Marseille without a win, a run spanning forty-one years and two long spells outside the top flight. That ended with a 2-1 win just before Christmas 2020. Since then the visitors have taken all three at the Raymond-Kopa, the hosts failing to score in two of them.
The two clubs sit at opposite ends of French football's economics, which is part of what makes the fixture worth a seat. Angers were founded in 1919 by two brothers from a local bank, have twice been Coupe de France runners-up, in 1957 then again in 2017, plus they sell the lowest-priced season book in the division. Marseille arrive with a European campaign running alongside the league. Ninety minutes at a ground of under 20,000 flattens a lot of that difference.
All figures below cover top-flight meetings at the Stade Raymond-Kopa, formerly the Stade Jean-Bouin, with Angers SCO as hosts. Away fixtures in Marseille, Coupe de France ties and second-division meetings are excluded.
| Metric | Total |
|---|---|
| Matches played | 26 |
| Angers SCO wins | 9 |
| Marseille wins | 9 |
| Draws | 8 |
| Angers SCO goals | 38 |
| Marseille goals | 36 |
| Biggest Angers SCO win | 5-0 |
| Biggest Marseille win | 2-5 |
| First top-flight meeting in scope | 16 December 1956 |
| Most recent meeting in scope | 17 January 2026 |
Figures compiled from the match-by-match record below, cross-referenced against the worldfootball.net Ligue 1 archive and the clubs' published season histories.
Every Ligue 1 match between the clubs at this ground, newest first, with the Angers score given first.
| Date | Score |
|---|---|
| 17 Jan 2026 | 2-5 |
| 09 Feb 2025 | 0-2 |
| 30 Sep 2022 | 0-3 |
| 22 Sep 2021 | 0-0 |
| 23 Dec 2020 | 2-1 |
| 03 Dec 2019 | 0-2 |
| 22 Dec 2018 | 1-1 |
| 29 Apr 2018 | 1-1 |
| 02 Oct 2016 | 1-1 |
| 01 May 2016 | 0-1 |
| 29 Oct 1993 | 0-1 |
| 28 Aug 1979 | 3-1 |
| 16 Dec 1978 | 1-1 |
| 21 May 1977 | 1-2 |
| 26 Jan 1975 | 1-2 |
| 19 Apr 1974 | 3-0 |
| 01 Nov 1972 | 0-2 |
| 30 Jan 1972 | 1-0 |
| 10 Mar 1971 | 2-1 |
| 07 Dec 1969 | 2-1 |
| 23 Mar 1968 | 2-2 |
| 23 Sep 1966 | 5-0 |
| 14 Oct 1962 | 3-0 |
| 08 Mar 1959 | 3-2 |
| 13 Oct 1957 | 2-2 |
| 16 Dec 1956 | 2-2 |
Gaps in the sequence are accounted for by the two clubs rarely sharing a division. Angers were outside the top flight in 1968/69, 1975/76, 1977/78, from 1981 to 1993, from 1994 to 2015 apart from a single season, then again in 2023/24. Marseille spent 1959 to 1962, 1963 to 1966 and 1980/81 in the second tier.
No. Angers operate no compulsory paid card and no ballot for individual fixtures. The only restricted product is the supporter-group subscription for one stand, which is not a general-sale route for a single match.
In the purpose-built away space on the right flank of the Tribune Jean-Bouin, new for this season. Visiting colours are prohibited in home areas and the rule is enforced, so buy a home seat only if you are content to watch quietly.
The Tribune Coubertin behind one goal, where both ultra groups are based. For this season the club gave the entire stand to home supporters and added a Fan Zone on its terrace, so expect standing and drums throughout.
Yes. The club accepts mobile QR tickets that can be added to Apple or Google Wallet, alongside A4 print-at-home documents and thermal paper from the box office. Which one you receive depends on the listing.
Turnstiles open ninety minutes before kick-off and the surrounding streets close two hours out, so aim to be walking towards the ground by then. Gates shut at half-time, which is applied more strictly here than at many grounds.
Sources: worldfootball.net Ligue 1 head-to-head archive; official club records and stadium information published by Angers SCO and Olympique de Marseille; Ligue de Football Professionnel competition regulations and matchday programming announcements; Angers Loire Métropole and Irigo transport information; French national rail timetables.