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| Full name | Racing Club de France Football | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Les Ciels et Blancs (The sky-blues and whites) Les Pingouins (The Penguins) | ||
| Short name | Racing, RC France, Racing CF | ||
| Founded | 1896 | ||
| Ground | Stade Yves-du-Manoir | ||
| Capacity | 15,000 | ||
| Chairman | Patrick Norbert | ||
| Manager | Guillaume Norbert | ||
| League | National 3 Group G | ||
| 2023–24 | National 2 Group C, 10th (relegated) | ||
| Website | https://www.racingfoot.fr | ||
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Racing Club de France Football, commonly known as Racing Club de France (French pronunciation: [ʁasiŋ klœb də fʁɑ̃s]), is a French football club based in the Paris suburb of Colombes.
The club was founded in 1882 as a multi-discipline sports club, and is one of the oldest clubs in French football history. The club's football section was not founded until 1896. The team plays in the Championnat National 3, the fifth level of French football.[1]
Racing Club de France, founded in 1882, was a founding member of Ligue 1. The club has won one Ligue 1 title (in 1935–36) and five Coupe de France titles (currently the joint fourth-highest total). Racing also played in the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques-sanctioned league, France's first championship league. The club debuted in the league in 1899 and won the championship in 1907 after finishing second in 1902 and 1903. The club holds the Ligue 1 record for most goals scored during a 38-match season with 118 goals in 1959–60.
Notable players of the club include Roger Marche, Oscar Heisserer, Thadée Cisowski, Raoul Diagne, Luis Fernández, Maxime Bossis, David Ginola, Luís Sobrinho, Pierre Littbarski, Enzo Francescoli, Alfred Bloch, and Rubén Paz. Diagne spent a decade with the club (1930–1940) and, in 1931, was the first black player on the France national team. He played in the 1938 FIFA World Cup with Abdelkader Ben Bouali, his Racing teammate who was one of the first North African players on the national team. From 2009 to 2012, the club moved to nearby Levallois-Perret after reaching a financial agreement with the commune.
- ^ "Le Stade Yves du Manoir" (in French). Racing Club de France Football. Archived from the original on 31 July 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2010.