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Stade Français Paris
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- Founded
- 1883
- Home town
- Paris
- Ground
- Stade Jean-Bouin
- Colours
- Website
- stade.fr (opens in a new tab)
Honours
French champions · 14
1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1901, 1903, 1908, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2015
European Challenge Cup · 1
2017
Notable players and coaches
- C. Heywood — English teacher at the Lycée Buffon; the club's first fly-half and captain, beaten by Racing in the first French final (1892)
- Max Guazzini — Took over in 1992 and ran the club until 2011: the 1995 merger, five titles, the pink shirts and the Dieux du Stade calendar
- Diego Domínguez — Fly-half; 74 caps for Italy (and 2 for Argentina); at the club 1997–2004, his last match the 2004 final
- Christophe Dominici — France wing at the club 1997–2008; five French titles, with a drop goal in the 2004 final
- Fabien Galthié — Scrum-half; 64 caps, France captain at the 2003 World Cup; retired after the 2003 title, then coached the club to the 2007 title; France head coach from 2020
- Agustín Pichot — Argentina scrum-half and captain; captained the club to the 2007 title; World Rugby vice-chairman 2016–2020
- Sergio Parisse — No. 8 and Italy captain; Italy's most-capped player (142); at the club 2005–2019
- Radike Samo — Australia forward; came off the bench to score the winning try in the 2007 final against Clermont
History
Stade Français was born on 12 December 1883 at the Café Procope in Paris, where six pupils of the Lycée Saint-Louis picked a name to set themselves apart from the English-sounding clubs of the day and from the Racing Club de France, founded a few months earlier. Beaten by Racing in the first French final in 1892, it took the title in 1893 and seven more times up to 1908. By 1992, when Max Guazzini took over, it had sunk to what he called the fifth division. In 1995 its rugby section merged with the CASG Paris (1903) to form Stade Français Paris, based at Jean-Bouin. Back in the top flight, it won five titles between 1998 and 2007 and became known for its show-business match days and, from 2005, its pink shirts. A fourteenth title followed in 2015 and, in 2017, its first European trophy, the Challenge Cup — weeks after a planned merger with Racing 92 was dropped in the face of a players' strike. It has played in the rebuilt Stade Jean-Bouin since 2013 and has been owned by Hans-Peter Wild since 2017.
Sources: stade.fr · top14.lnr.fr · en.wikipedia.org