Racing 92 () is a French professional
rugby union
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club based in the
Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a department in the Île-de-France region of France. It covers Paris's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west and ...
department,
Paris
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' western inner
suburbs
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that competes in
Top 14
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. The club plays its home matches at the 30,681-capacity
domed stadium Paris La Défense Arena
Paris La Défense Arena is a multipurpose Arena, indoor arena in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. Opened in October 2017, it was developed by the rugby union club Racing 92, and replaced Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir as their home. It is Li ...
, located near the
La Défense
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business district.
Founded in 1890 as the rugby union section of the Paris sports club
Racing Club de France, Racing 92 is one of the oldest rugby clubs in France and has traditionally worn a sky blue and white hooped home kit since its inception. The club in its current form is the result of a merger with US Métro in 2001, having been rebranded ''Métro Racing 92'' and then ''Racing Métro 92'' from 2005 to 2015 when the club took its current name. ''92'' refers to the number of the Hauts-de-Seine department that henceforth supports the team. After a stint in the
second division, Racing Métro 92 returned to the first division in
2009
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and very quickly emerged as a flagship club thanks to ambitious recruitment and significant financial resources. Since the promotion, Racing 92 has always taken part in the Top 14 playoffs and won the
Bouclier de Brennus on one occasion in 2016. The following year, the club left its forever home
Stade Yves-du-Manoir
The Stade Yves-du-Manoir (officially Stade olympique Yves-du-Manoir, also known as the Stade olympique de Colombes, or simply Colombes to the locals) is a rugby, track, and association football stadium in Colombes, near Paris, France.
History ...
for its new stadium, the Paris La Défense Arena.
Throughout its history, Racing 92 has won a total of six league titles including the inaugural edition of the French championship in
1892
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Events
January
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, one
Pro D2
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title and one
Coupe de l'Espérance. The club also reached the
European Rugby Champions Cup final three times in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
,
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
and
2020
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but has never won the trophy. Racing 92 has a long-standing rivalry with nearby club
Stade Français
Stade Français Paris (known commonly as Stade Français, ) is a French professional rugby union club based in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The club plays in the Top 14 domestic league in France and is one of the most successful French ...
.
History

Racing Club was established in 1882 (it became Racing Club de France in 1885) as an athletics club, one of the first in France. New sections were regularly added thereafter (17 as of 2006, accounting for some 20,000 members). A rugby section was founded in 1890, which became an immediate protagonist of the early French championship to which, until 1898, only Parisian teams were invited. On 20 March
1892
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Events
January
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the
USFSA
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organised the first-ever French rugby championship, a one-off game between Racing and
Stade Français
Stade Français Paris (known commonly as Stade Français, ) is a French professional rugby union club based in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The club plays in the Top 14 domestic league in France and is one of the most successful French ...
. The game was refereed by
Pierre de Coubertin
Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (; born Pierre de Frédy; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937), also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic ...
and saw Racing win 4–3. Racing were awarded the
Bouclier de Brennus, which is still awarded to the winners of the
French championship today.
Both clubs would contest the championship game the following season as well, though in 1893 it would be Stade Français who would win the event, defeating the Racing Club 7–3. Stade went on to dominate the following years and the Racing Club would make their next final appearance in the 1898 season, where they met Stade yet again. However the title was awarded after a round-robin with six clubs. Stade Français won with 10 points, Racing came in second with 6.
Racing contested the 1900 season final against the
Stade Bordelais
Stade Bordelais are a French rugby union club, based in Bordeaux.
The club was established in 1889. Bordelais were a major force in the French championship during the 1900s. Until 2005–06, the senior team competed in the second level of dom ...
club, as provincial clubs had been allowed to compete in 1899. Racing easily won the match, defeating Stade Bordelais 37–7. The two clubs would meet again in the 1902 championship game, where Racing would again win, 6–0. A decade passed until Racing Club made another championship final, which would be on 31 March 1912, where they would play
Toulouse
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in
Toulouse
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. They lost the match 8–6.
Due to World War I the French championship was replaced with a competition called the
Coupe de l'Espérance. The Racing Club won the competition in 1918, defeating
FC Grenoble 22 points to 9. Normal competition resumed for the 1920 season. That season the Racing Club made their first final since 1912, though they lost 8 to 3 to
Stadoceste Tarbais, a club from the Pyrénées.
After the 1920 season, the Racing Club would not win any championships for a number of years. In 1931 they created the
Challenge Yves du Manoir competition. In the 1950s the club had some success, making their first championship final in 30 years, losing to
Castres Olympique
Castres Olympique (, ) is a French rugby union club located in the Occitanian city of Castres and is currently competing in the Top 14, the top level of the French league system.
Founded in 1898, the club took its current name in 1906. They pla ...
, 11 points to 8, becoming runners-up in the Challenge Yves du Manoir and winning the Challenge Rutherford in the 1952 season. After losing the 1957 final to
FC Lourdes, the club then won the championship in the 1959 season, defeating
Mont-de-Marsan
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8 points to 3.
The Racing Club would next play in the championship final in the 1987 season, where they met
Toulon
Toulon (, , ; , , ) is a city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera and the historical Provence, it is the prefecture of the Var (department), Var department.
The Commune of Toulon h ...
at
Parc des Princes
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in Paris. Toulon won the match 15 points to 12. Three seasons later the Racing Club defeated
Agen
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22 to 12 in Paris, capturing their first title since the 1959 season.
But in the wake of the 1990 title, Racing Club had a hard time adapting to the professional era and started to decline, until they were relegated to Division 2 at the end of the 1995–96 season. They jumped back to the top tier in 1998 but went down again in 2000 and played in Division 2 for most of the next decade. In 2001 the rugby section split off from the general sports club to merge with the rugby section of
US Métro, the Paris public transport sports club, to form the current professional concern, known as Racing Métro 92. Both Racing Club de France and US Métro retained their other amateur general sports sections.
Racing 92's president is Jacky Lorenzetti, who heads a giant real estate company called Foncia. When Lorenzetti took over in 2006, the board set goals of bringing Racing into the
Top 14
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within the next two years and into the
Heineken Cup
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by 2011. They missed their Top 14 goal by one year, not entering the top flight until 2009, but achieved their Heineken Cup goal by qualifying for the 2010–11 edition.
After 2003 the Challenge Yves du Manoir has been taken over by Racing Club as a youth competition for under 15s clubs. Racing Club de France provided 76 players to the national team, including 12 captains. It is second only to
Stade Toulousain
Stade Toulousain () (), also referred to as Toulouse, is a professional rugby union club based in Toulouse, France. They compete in the Top 14, France's top division of rugby, and the European Rugby Champions Cup.
Toulouse is the most successfu ...
(almost 100) in that category. Three ''Racingmen'' played in France's first international match against the
All Blacks
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on 1 January 1906.
Laurent Cabannes, a France flanker, also played for
Harlequins.
At the end of the
2014–15 season, the team's name was shortened from Racing Métro 92 to simply Racing 92.
Identity
Aristocratic exclusivity

In France, early organised sport was a matter for rich people. Racing Club became the epitome of the exclusive athletics club, located in the heart of the
Bois de Boulogne
The Bois de Boulogne (, "Boulogne woodland") is a large public park that is the western half of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by the Em ...
in the affluent western district of Paris. As the club's name, Racing, indicates, it was modelled after fashionable English sports organisations, whose ideal of ''
mens sana in corpore sano
() is a Latin phrase, usually translated as "a healthy mind in a healthy body". The phrase is widely used in sporting and educational contexts to express that physical exercise is an important or essential part of mental and psychological well-b ...
'' (''a healthy mind in a healthy body'') appealed very much to its members. Many of them were actually aristocrats, and four nobles took part in the first championship final. Although fewer aristocrats belong to the club now, it is still very complicated to join it, and the identity and image is one of exclusivity.
Racing Club has also always defended the amateur spirit of the game and of sports in general. The creation of the
Challenge Yves du Manoir responded to this ideal in a period (late 1920s–early 1930s) where French rugby was marred by violence and undergoing creeping professionalism.
Yves du Manoir symbolised the romantic side of rugby, its carefree dimension, ''le jeu pour le jeu'' (''playing for the fun of playing'').
Modern eccentricity
In a very different vein, much later, in the 1980s, a talented generation of players revived the club's spirit. They carried it back to the top of French rugby thanks to their performances on the pitch, but they also wanted to bring the fun back into the game, to take rugby out of its Parisian anonymity. They did so through a combination of serious football, humour and self-mockery. Their famous antics were invented by the club's backs (including France flyhalf Franck Mesnel and France wing Jean-Baptiste Lafond) who once played a game in
Bayonne
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with
berets on their heads as a tribute to the tradition of attacking play of the Basque club
Aviron Bayonnais
Aviron Bayonnais (AB, ), commonly called Bayonne, is a French rugby union club from Bayonne (''Baiona'' in Basque) in Pyrénées-Atlantiques which competes in the Top 14, the top tier of the National Rugby League (France), French league system.
...
(11 Jan 1987). As members of a gang which they called ''le show bizz'', they played other matches with black make-up on (10 April 1988 at
Stade Toulousain
Stade Toulousain () (), also referred to as Toulouse, is a professional rugby union club based in Toulouse, France. They compete in the Top 14, France's top division of rugby, and the European Rugby Champions Cup.
Toulouse is the most successfu ...
), hair dyed yellow, bald caps (26 Feb 1989 against
Béziers
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), wigs and even dressed up as
pelote players (white shirts, black jackets and berets, again) in March 1990 at
Biarritz Olympique
Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (; ), usually known simply as Biarritz, is a French professional rugby union team based in the Iparralde, Basque city of Biarritz in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine ...
. In April 1989, they wore long red and white striped shorts to celebrate the
sans-culotte
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who took the
Bastille
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on
14 July 1789. They wore long white trousers to look like players of old in the French championship semi-final on 26 April 1987—and won. Their best prank was in the next game though: they played the 1987 final against
Toulon
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with a pink bow tie (2 May). Just before kick-off, Lafond presented French president
François Mitterrand
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, who always attended the national final, with one of those bow ties. They lost that match but went on to play the 1990 final with the same bow ties. At half-time, they had a drink of champagne on the pitch to recover from the efforts of the first half—and won what proved to be the club's last top-flight title for a quarter-century.
They were also famous for their love of nightlife, which attracted a lot of criticism, especially because so many of them had international duties with France. All this contributed to the image of Racing Club as an eccentric institution, but these players have also been seen as trail blazers for
Stade Français
Stade Français Paris (known commonly as Stade Français, ) is a French professional rugby union club based in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The club plays in the Top 14 domestic league in France and is one of the most successful French ...
's president
Max Guazzini, who a few years later, took up the provocative (such as the use of the pink colour) and imaginative spirit to boost his club's image and shake off the conservative traditionalism of French rugby.
As the club hit the front pages, five players capitalised on the success and went on to start a sportswear clothing business called Eden Park (after the famous Auckland stadium) in late 1987. Their development was boosted when the French Federation chose them as official suppliers of France's formal wear in 1998. The company has 270 outlets throughout the world. One of them is in
Richmond as Eden Park developed a partnership with
Harlequins. Others are to be found in
Northampton
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,
Leeds
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,
Belfast
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, Dublin and
Cardiff
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. In 2003, Eden Park became the official supplier of the
Welsh Rugby Union
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The WRU is responsible for the running of rugby in Wales, overseeing 320 member clu ...
's formal wear for the World Cup in Australia. Eden Park is also directly involved in the Racing 92 club since one of its founders, Eric Blanc—who happens to be Franck Mesnel's brother-in-law, is the club's vice-president.
This particular period ended in the early 1990s when those players left the club. Racing then spent several years in the second division, but retained plenty of ambition. In
2007–08, Racing finished second on the ladder to equally ambitious
Toulon
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The Commune of Toulon h ...
, but fell short of promotion with an extra-time loss to
Mont-de-Marsan
Mont-de-Marsan (; Gascon dialect, Occitan: ''Lo Mont de Marçan'') is a communes of France, commune and capital of the Landes (department), Landes Departments of France, department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
Population
Milit ...
in the Pro D2 promotion playoff final.
The following year saw Racing's ambitions realised with a romp to the Pro D2 crown, clinching promotion with four rounds to spare.
In their return to the top flight in
2009–10, Racing finished sixth on the regular-season table, two spots ahead of their Parisian rivals, securing the final spot in the newly expanded playoffs—despite actually being outscored by their opponents on the season. This finish also gave Racing a place in the 2010–11 Heineken Cup. Their season ended with a 21–17 first-round loss at eventual champions
Clermont. The
2010–11 season saw Racing emphatically, though only temporarily, reestablish themselves as the top club in Paris, finishing second on the regular-season table to Stade Français' 11th.
Lorenzetti's model for success has been to combine young French talent with big-name imports. More significantly, while he largely bankrolled the team during the first years of his tenure as president, he is committed to making the club self-supporting. To that end, he financed the construction of a new 32,000-seat stadium for the club in the Paris suburb of
Nanterre
Nanterre (; ) is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located some northwest of the centre of Paris. In 2018, the commune had a population of 96,807.
The eastern part of Nanterre, b ...
, near
La Défense
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. The new ground, known at its October 2017 opening as U Arena and renamed Paris La Défense Arena in June 2018, has been Racing's home since December 2017. It is also designed to host major concerts, potentially providing Racing with substantial non-match revenue.
Racing made headlines in December 2014, announcing that it had signed
All Blacks
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fly-half
Dan Carter, the all-time leading points scorer in international rugby, to a three-year deal effective after the
2015 Rugby World Cup
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. The contract reportedly made Carter the first player in rugby history to make £1 million (€1.3 million at late-2014 exchange rates) a season, with reports of his annual salary as high as £1.3 million (€1.7 million).
When the signing was announced, Lorenzetti said, "Carter will be the best-paid player at Racing but also the least expensive because of the economic benefits."
Carter filled the void at fly-half left by the return of
Johnny Sexton
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to
Leinster Rugby
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at the end of the 2014–15 season.
Still more recently, Racing became the first Top 14 side to establish a satellite club in the
United States
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, signing a partnership agreement in 2016 with
Austin Huns, a club from
Austin, Texas
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that planned to turn fully professional. The partnership includes youth player development, player exchanges, Racing 92 exhibitions in Austin, and marketing.
Honours
*
French championship Top 14
**Champions (6):
1892
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Events
January
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins processing imm ...
,
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...
,
1902,
1959
Events
January
* January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...
,
1990
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,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
**''Runners-up (7)'':
1893,
1898
Events
January
* January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queen ...
,
1912
This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15.
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,
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its ow ...
,
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...
,
1957
Events January
* January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.
* January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
* January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...
,
1987
Events January
* January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency.
* January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade.
* January 3 – Afghan leader ...
*
European Rugby Champions Cup
**''Runners-up (3)'':
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
,
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
,
2020
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*
Challenge Yves du Manoir
**''Runners-up (1)'': 1952
*
Coupe de l'Espérance
**''Champions (1)'': 1918
*
Division One Group A2/Rugby Pro D2
**''Champions (2)'': 1998,
2009
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Finals results
European Rugby Champions Cup
French championship
Challenge Yves du Manoir
Coupe de l'Espérance
Current standings
Current squad
The Racing 92 squad for the
2024–25 season is:
Espoirs squad
The Racing 92 Espoirs squad is:
Coaching staff
The following members were part of Racing 92 coaching staff for the 2024–25 season.
Patrice Collazo replaced
Stuart Lancaster as head coach on 1 February 2025.
Notable current and past players
*
Patricio Albacete
*
Emiliano Boffelli
*
Manuel Carizza
*
Álvaro Galindo
*
Juan Martín Hernández
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Juan José Imhoff
Juan José Imhoff (born 11 May 1988) is a former Argentine professional rugby union player who played as a Wing (rugby union), wing.
Club career
He played for Duendes Rugby Club, from 2009 to 2011, in the Nacional de Clubes, which he won twic ...
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Juan Pablo Orlandi
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Agustín Pichot
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Kurtley Beale
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Nic Berry
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Olly Barkley
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Dan Scarbrough
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Sireli Bobo
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Sakiusa Matadigo
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Josh Matavesi
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Leone Nakarawa
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Jone Qovu
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Simon Raiwalui
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Ben Volavola
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Albert Vulivuli
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Wladimir Aïtoff
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Georges André
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Marc Andreu
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Alexandre Audebert
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David Auradou
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Louis Béguet
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Laurent Benezech
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Eddy Ben Arous
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Léon Binoche
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Mathieu Blin
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Eric Bonneval
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François Borde
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René Boudreaux
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Adolphe Bousquet
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Guillaume Boussès
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Julien Brugnaut
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Marcel Burgun
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Laurent Cabannes
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Fernand Cazenave
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Sébastien Chabal
Sébastien Chabal (born 8 December 1977) is a French former rugby union player. He played Number eight (rugby union), number eight and Lock (rugby union), lock for CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, Bourgoin (1998–2004), Sale Sharks (2004–2009), Racing Mé ...
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Denis Charvet
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Camille Chat
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Henry Chavancy
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André Chilo
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Antonie Claassen
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Jean Collas
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Patrice Collazo
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René Crabos
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Michel Crauste
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Benjamin Dambielle
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Paul Decamps
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Jean-Frédéric Dubois
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Luc Ducalcon
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Brice Dulin
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Alexandre Dumoulin
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Nicolas Durand
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Yves du Manoir
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Fabrice Estebanez
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Benjamin Fall
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Jérôme Fillol
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Jean-Pierre Genet
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Charles Gondouin
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Pierre Guillemin
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Adolphe Jauréguy
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Adolphe Klingelhoefer
Adolphe Klingelhoefer (2 May 1880 - 19 December 1956) was a French Track and field, track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, he also played rugby union.
Biography
Klingelhoefer was born and raised in Par ...
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Virgile Lacombe
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Jean-Baptiste Lafond
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Fabrice Landreau
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Gaston Lane
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Wenceslas Lauret
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Hubert Lefèbvre
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Bernard Le Roux
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Thomas Lombard
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Maxime Machenaud
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Gérald Martinez
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Arnaud Marquesuzaa
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Franck Mesnel
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François Moncla
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Lionel Nallet
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Benjamin Noirot
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Yannick Nyanga
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Robert Paparemborde
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Alexandre Pharamond
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Étienne Piquiral
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Adrien Planté
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Alain Porthault
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Frantz Reichel
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Jean-Pierre Rives
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André Roosevelt
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Émile Sarrade
France was the host of the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. France was one of many nations that had competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Greece and had returned to compete at the 1900 Summer Olympics, 1900 Games.
Gold medals were not given out ...
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Julien Saubade
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Alfred Sauvy
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Laurent Sempéré
Laurent Sempéré (born 9 July 1985) is a French rugby union coach and former player, he is currently the forwards coach of the France national team. His position was Hooker. He began his career with USA Perpignan before moving to Racing Métr ...
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Dimitri Szarzewski
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Rémi Talès
Rémi Talès (born 2 May 1984) is a French rugby union player. His position is fly-half and he currently plays for Mont-de-Marsan in the Pro D2. He began his career with Stade Montois before moving to La Rochelle. He established himself as a ...
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Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (; born Jacques Tatischeff, ; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. In an ''Entertainment Weekly'' poll of the Greatest Movie Directors, he was voted 46th (a list of the top 50 was ...
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Teddy Thomas
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Franck Tournaire
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François Trinh-Duc
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Mikaele Tuugahala
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Virimi Vakatawa
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Ludovic Valbon
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Michel Vannier
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Jonathan Wisniewski
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Giorgi Chkhaidze
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Vasil Kakovin
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David Khinchagishvili
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Mamuka Magrakvelidze
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Mirco Bergamasco
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Martin Castrogiovanni
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Santiago Dellapè
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Carlo Festuccia
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Andrea Lo Cicero
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Andrea Masi
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Michael Carroll
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Donnacha Ryan
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Johnny Sexton
Jonathan Jeremiah Sexton (born 11 July 1985) is an Irish former professional rugby union player who played as a Fly-half (rugby union), fly-half and Captain (sports), captained the Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland national team from ...
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Simon Zebo
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Dominic Bird
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Dan Carter
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Casey Laulala
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Johnny Leo'o
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Chris Masoe
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Andrew Mehrtens
Andrew Philip Mehrtens (born 28 April 1973) is a New Zealand former rugby union player. He was regarded as a top first five-eighth, having played first for Canterbury in 1993, before being selected for the All Blacks (New Zealand's national ...
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Joe Rokocoko
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Brent Ward
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Carlos de Candamo
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Jacques Cronjé
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Johan Goosen
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Juandré Kruger
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Pat Lambie
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Brian Mujati
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François Steyn
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François van der Merwe
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Gabriel Brezoianu
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Tudor Constantin
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Răzvan Mavrodin
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Adrian Motoc
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Alin Petrache
* Eugeniu Ștefan
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Lucian Sîrbu
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Ionuț Tofan
* Dumitru Volvoreanu
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Sefulu Gaugau
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Census Johnston
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Finn Russell
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Ben Tameifuna
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Soane Tongaʻuiha
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Mani Vakaloa
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Dan Lydiate
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Jamie Roberts
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Mike Phillips
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Luke Charteris
Chairmen
See also
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List of rugby union clubs in France
Contents : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By League
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Rugby union in France
References
External links
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Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
Rugby clubs established in 1890
Rugby clubs established in 2001
Rugby union clubs in Paris
1890 establishments in France
2001 establishments in France
Sport in Hauts-de-Seine