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Top 25 Sports clubs based in France
RevenueBase identified 1,913 sports clubs headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 17,335 professional contacts across them, including 1,948 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers sports clubs headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest sports clubs based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 1970, le Paris Saint-Germain est le club le plus titré de France et une référence du football européen, consacrée par sa victoire en Ligue des Champions de l’UEFA en 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Place forte du football français des années 40 et 50, le LOSC affiche une progression sportive et structurelle constante depuis le début des années Avec l’inauguration en 2007 du…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UrbanSoccer, société spécialisée dans les loisirs sportifs, et précurseur du foot 5 en France depuis 2004 est leader du marché avec 31 centres en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 317 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “le FC Nantes compte huit titres de champion de France et quatre coupes de France, ce qui constitue l'un des plus beaux palmarès du football français.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Paris FC est heureux de vous accueillir sur sa page officielle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rugby et Basket, le Stade Rochelais se développe chaque année en s’appuyant sur ses valeurs sportives et universelles de Progrès, Engagement, Solidarité et Respect.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Football Club” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Union Bordeaux Bègles, c'est : 22 abonnés en 2025-2026 + de 545 supporters ont été accueillis en affluence cumulée en 2025, toutes compétitions confondues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Etre Racing, plus qu'un état d'esprit, c'est un état d'âme.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aujourd’hui, la team PLAYERS regroupe les marques 4PADEL, LE FIVE, ZIDANE FIVE CLUB et PLAYERS EVENTS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Stade de Reims est un club historique du championnat de France, une institution sextuple champion de France, double vainqueur de la Coupe de France et deux fois finaliste de la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 1906, le Racing Club de Lens possède une histoire et une identité fortes, reposant sur des valeurs immuables telles que la fierté, l’authenticité, la transmission et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Retrouvez toutes les actualités autour du MHSC” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Association à but non lucratif, elle a pour objectif, à partir de ses clubs, de développer la pratique du sport, la lutte contre la sédentarité et de diffuser des valeurs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plusieurs années, Thierry Ascione et Jo-Wilfried Tsonga développent leurs activités dans le monde du tennis avec notamment une académie de tennis de haut niveau.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L’Union Sportive Romanaise et Péageoise et le ROC La Voulte Valence se sont rassemblés pour créer le VALENCE ROMANS DROME RUGBY.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'USL Dunkerque, club emblématique du littoral et des Hauts de France, a été fondé en 1909.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Premier club omnisports de France crée en 1983, le Levallois Sporting club compte aujourd'hui plus de 17 adhérents répartis dans 32 sections, 130 disciplines et 34 médailles…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Grenoble Foot 38 est heureux de vous accueillir sur sa page officielle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Association, créée en 1911 par Marcel Michelin et réservée, à l'origine, aux employés de la Manufacture, s'est ouverte depuis longtemps à son environnement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Historique du club L'USO accède en 1980 à la finale de la Coupe de France contre Monaco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Club de football de haut niveau du territoire métropolitain, QRM vient d’achever un cycle de 3 ans en ligue 2 BKT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parce qu’un club ne peut être que le rassemblement d’individualités, le HBC Nantes est bien plus fort dans l’effort collectif.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: sports clubs. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names sports clubs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of sports clubs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name sports clubs. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Sports clubs based in France at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 1,913 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among sports clubs, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “sports clubs”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names sports clubs), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among sports clubs, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,948 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Sports clubs by metro
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names sports clubs, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many sports clubs are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 1,913 sports clubs headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Paris Saint-Germain, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most sports clubs?
Paris leads with 60 headquartered companies, followed by Toulouse (23) and Angers (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,948 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,913 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.