| KNOWN AS |
Racing-Métro
92 Paris |
| FOUNDED |
2001
(after merging Racing Club de France and US Métro) |
| STADIUM (capacity) |
Stade
Olympique Yves-de-Manoir |
14,000 |
| POSITION LAST YEAR |
6th,
lost in play-off quarter-finals.
Full results |
| COLOURS |
Light blue and white
horizontal stripes |
|
BUDGET FOR 2010/11 |
€17m (up €1m
from 2009/10)
|
|
HONOURS |
Championship winners |
1892, 1900, 1902, 1959,
1990 |
| |
Championship
r/up |
1893,
1912, 1920, 1950, 1957, 1987 |
| |
Challenge Yves
Manoir, winners |
- |
| |
Challenge Yves Manoir, r/up |
1952 |
| |
Coupe de
L’Espérance, winners |
1918 |
| |
Coupe de
l’Espérance, r/up |
1916 |
| |
Div
One/ProD2, winners |
1998,
2009 |
| |
Challenge Rutherford, r/up |
1952 |
| PRESIDENT |
Jacky
Lorenzetti |
|
| COACH |
Pierre Berbizier, Philippe Benetton |
|
CAPTAIN |
Lionel Nallet |
| TRIVIA |
Racing
Club de France was one of the inaugural teams in the
French Championship, but merged with US Métro
in 2001 after falling on hard times at the outset of
the professional era. The number '92' refers to the
department within Paris where the club is located
(Hauts-de-Seine) |
| MAJOR SIGNINGS |
Mirco Bergamasco
(Italian winger) |
| |
Benjamin Fall (French
winger) |
| |
Nicolas Durand (French
scrum-half) |
| |
Juan Martin Hernández
(Argentine fly-half) |
| CURRENT PLAYERS |
View Current Players & Player
Profiles |
| MAJOR PLAYERS |
Sireli Bobo (Fijian
winger) |
| |
Lionel Nallet (French
lock) |
| |
Sébastien Chabal
(French lock/number eight) |
| |
Francois Steyn (South
African fly-half/centre) |
| |
Andrea Masi (Italian
centre) |
| |
Jacques Cronje (South
African back row) |
| OFFICIAL SITE |
www.racing-metro92.com |
