- Address: Route de Vaux, Auxerre
- Country: French Republic
- Capacity: 18,000
- Opened: 1905
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: AJA (football)
Extra stadium info – Stade Abbé-Deschamps
AJA use the Stade Abbé-Deschamps for home games. The club was founded in 1905. AJA, the first sports club from Auxerre with 100,000 followers on its main social media page, won the French top-flight football league in 1996 for the first time in their history. They drew an average home attendance of 11,000 during that domestic league season. AJA gathered 72 points in 38 league games in that football season. They won 22 of those 38 matches. Six games ended in a draw and AJA lost 10 of the 38 games.
AJA in the UEFA Champions League
AJA made their debut in the UEFA Champions League, the first sports competition with 100 million followers on its main social media page, in 1996. On 11 September 1996, they faced Ajax in their first-ever UEFA Champions League match. 18,000 spectators attended the game in Auxerre. AJA finished above Ajax from the Netherlands, Grasshopper Club Zürich from the Swiss Confederation and the Rangers from Scotland in their debut in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.
