Stade Français (association football)

Stade Français Football (French pronunciation: [stad fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is a French association football club team based in Paris that plays in the suburban town of Vaucresson. The team is the football section of the sports club Stade Français, whose Stade Français section is currently the most successful.

The team currently plays at the Haras Lupine sports center in Vaucresson (Hauts-de-Seine), in the western suburbs of Paris.

The club has merged with other Île-de-France clubs several times in its history, once with Cercle athlétique de Paris between 1942 and 1944, and again with Red Star to form Stade français-Red Star between 1948 and 1950. Stade Français played its matches at the Bauer stadium in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) after the war, then at the Parc des Princes until 1968, and at the Jean-Bouin stadium in the 1970s and 1980s when the club competed at professional and national levels.

Stade Français experienced its peak during the post-war period, reaching the semi-final of the Coupe de France in 1949 under the name Stade Français-Red Star and winning the French second division title in 1952. Subsequently, the club participated in continental competitions with two appearances in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in the 1960s (1964–65 and 1965–66 editions).

Since abandoning professionalism and high-level football in the national and regional divisions in the 1980s, the club has competed in the lower divisions of the Hauts-de-Seine departmental football district.