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Top 25 Sports companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 654 sports companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 75,259 professional contacts across them, including 11,965 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers sports companies 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 19, 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 companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 25,224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Decathlon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 21,244 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are the world's Largest sports retailer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 8,866 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At the crossroads of fashion and sport, Lacoste liberates and creates movement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,871 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “INTERSPORT est une coopérative française composée d'entrepreneurs indépendants engagés au quotidien pour rendre le sport accessible à tous, partout.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,334 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Salomon is the modern mountain sport lifestyle brand creating innovative, premium and authentic footwear, apparel and winter sports equipment in the French Alps.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,321 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Boardriders, is the world’s leading action sports and lifestyle company that designs, produces and distributes branded apparel, footwear and accessories for Boardriders around the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,042 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sport créé en 1966, aujourd’hui 3ème distributeur multisports en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 520 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Babolat is a proud family-owned company whose history with racquet sports began in 1875, accompanying the birth of tennis and badminton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're Europe's leading sports nutrition and home fitness brand delivering a range of premium products across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “L'acteur digital 100% du Sport Réseaux sociaux du sport > Sites web footeo & clubeo Régie digitale > Akcelo https://akcelo.io/fr/> Sports Local Media E-Commerce > Vente…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chullanka est une enseigne française spécialisée dans la distribution d'articles de sports outdoor : Randonnée, vélo, escalade, canyoning, trail/running.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ABEO is an international Group positioned amongst the leading European players in the sports and leisure equipment market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Créé en 1996, Lepape est un revendeur indépendant d'équipements sportifs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée en 1981 et basée à Entzheim (67), la société TENNISPRO compte parmi les principaux acteurs du marché européen de vente de matériel de tennis sur Internet et se positionne…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Table tennis specialists for over 50 years, renowned among casual enthusiasts and top-level competitive players alike, at Cornilleau we’ve never stopped innovating, always on the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Metalu Plast is a manufacturer of sports equipment, sports enclosures and multi-sports playgrounds for more than 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “N4Brands est un leader dans les secteurs du fitness, de la nutrition, de la santé et du bien-être.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 2004, nous sommes leaders de l’actualité et du retail football, offrant une plateforme 360° dédiée aux passionnés.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 40 ans, la société IMBRETEX est devenue un acteur incontournable du marché du vêtement promotionnel et professionnel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Depuis plus 45 ans, Sunset est spécialisé dans la distribution de matériel de sports d'hiver et de produits Outdoor en France, UK & Espagne Nous distribuons 15 marques différentes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’enseigne de référence des amoureux de la montagne.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crée au Maroc en 1920 par la famille Chouissa, la société BDE était initialement spécialisée dans la fabrique de boyaux utilisés notamment pour le cordage en tennis, de badminton…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RaidLight is a French brand created in by Benoît LAVAL, a high-level trail runner and trekker, passionate about all outdoor sports and activities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “NOCIKA, Société de distribution de produits de sports et de loisirs nautiques flysurf.com / nautigames.com / orange-marine.com /.it /.de sourceboardshop.com Entreprise dynamique…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 companies. 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 companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of sports companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name sports companies. 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 companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 654 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 companies, 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 companies”. 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 companies), 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 companies, 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, 11,965 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 19, 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 companies by metro
- Sports companies in Paris71
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 companies, 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 companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 654 sports companies 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?
Decathlon, headquartered in Lille, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most sports companies?
Paris leads with 71 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (13) and Toulouse (10).
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 11,965 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 654 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 19, 2026.
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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.
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