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Association football team of Paris, France

Paris
Shirt badge/Association crest
ConfederationNone
Home stadiumParc des Princes
Stade Jean-Bouin
First international
Paris Paris 0–3 Marylebone FC England
(Paris, France; 1 April 1893)
Biggest win
Paris Paris 4–1 Horsmonden School England
(Paris, France; 8 January 1902)
Paris Paris 4–1 Arcadian FC England
(Paris, France; 2 January 1905)
Biggest defeat
Paris Paris 0–13 Old Edwardians England FC
(Paris, France; 12 April 1909)

The Paris football team (French: Équipe de Paris Île-de-France de football) is an association football scratch team mainly consisting of players from Paris, but also of players hailing from other regions and countries playing for Parisian clubs or in the Parisian League. This scratch team was initially selected by the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), then by the Ligue de Football Association (LFA), and finally by the French Football Federation (FFF).

The Paris football team plays one-off games against clubs, regional teams, or collectives of other confederations, and as such, no governing body in the sport officially recognizes the team.

History

The USFSA era

Even before football was recognized by the USFSA in January 1894, the Parisian clubs White Rovers and Standard AC, both of whom consisting mostly of English players, formed an agreement to face the English club Marylebone FC, which came to play in Paris during the Easter holidays of 1893; the English logically won 3–0. On the following day, White Rovers played the first international club game on French soil against Marylebone FC (4–1). A year later, this time under the umbrella of the USFSA, a Paris selection including players from White Rovers, Standard AC, and Club Français faced an agreement between the English clubs Marylebone and Belzice; the English won 2–1.

On 24 February 1895, the first representative team of Paris played a friendly match against the London-based Folkestone at the soggy pitch of the Seine Velodrome, which welcomed 1,500 spectators, a record attendance for a football match in France at the time; the English won 3–0. The only French players who started for the Paris team were the founders of Club Français, Eugène Fraysse and Charles Bernat. Two months later, on 12 April, Paris faced Folkestone again, this time losing 8–0.

On 12 December 1898, a German national selection competed in a football match for the first time, beating the White Rovers 7–0, and on the next day, 13 December, the Germans faced a selection of the best Parisian players from the USFSA, which included five players from Club Français (defenders Sid Wood and Bernat and forwards Fraysse, Grandjean and Jack Wood), four players from Standard AC (goalkeeper Arnull, midfielder J. Hicks, and forwards O. Hicks and Meggs), one from Paris Star (defender Barnold), and one from Racing (midfielder Alfred Tunmer). Two hundred people attended this match, and after a fierce fight, the German team triumphed 2–1, scoring 1 goal in each half, while Paris' goal was scored by Meggs.

The LFA era (1910–1919)

The LFA's Paris selection of 15 March 1914. Standing: Gamblin (Red Star), Germann (US Suisse), Barreau (Levallois), Bigué (CA Paris), Scheibenstock (CA Paris). Squatting: M. Gastiger (Levallois), Mesnier (CA Paris), Devic (Red Star), F. Romano (Levallois), Triboulet (Levallois).

The Ligue de Football Association (LFA), a member of the French Interfederal Committee (CFI), set up a Paris selection in 1910, obtaining disappointing results, because the best Parisian players were now divided into four competing federations (USFSA, LFA, FGSPF, and FCAF), and the LFA could only select its own players, which mainly come from LFA's three flagship clubs: Red Star, CA Paris, and FEC Levallois.

Between 1910 and 1914, LFA's Paris selection played one match against a London League XI every year, losing each time. In the 1912 match, Paris fielded the likes of Pierre Chayriguès, Eugène Maës, Gaston Barreau, Henri Vialmonteil, and René Fenouillière. On 4 January 1914, the LFA's Paris selection traveled to Lille to face the USFSA's Northern France football team, also known as Lions des Flandres, and even though the LFA team fielded several former and current internationals, such as Chayriguès, Maës, Lucien Gamblin, Félix Romano, and captain Barreau, it was the USFSA team that won 3–0. This match was held two months after All Saints' Day of 1913, in which both federations organized a match at the same time, with the LFA team facing the London League in Saint-Ouen, while the USFSA selection faced the amateurs' team of English Wanderers in Auteuil, and this choice proves the acuteness of the rivalry between the federations. In the build-up for a match against Belgium on 25 January 1914, France played a warm-up game against a selection of the foreigner players in Paris, which included both 7 "Liguists" (LFA) and 4 "Unionists" (USFSA), being made-up of 6 Swiss, 3 British, 1 Hungarian, and a Franco-Italian; it ended in a goalless draw.

During the First World War, Northern France was occupied for 4 years and several "Lions" players died in battle, thus weakening the team, but despite this, the LFA's Paris selection was still unable to defeat them when they faced each other again on 11 May 1919, this time at the Stade de Paris in Saint-Ouen, ending in a 4–4 draw.

Under the FFF

On 7 July 1919, the LFA merged with other national federations to form the French Football Federation (FFF), and the regional team began this new era with a victory against its London counterpart on 1 November 1919 (4–3), at the Stade Bergeyre in Paris. The next day, a rematch was played at the Stade de Paris, and the Parisians confirmed their success by winning 3–1.

Results

USFSA

Select Paris Paris v England Marylebone FC
1 April 1894 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–3 England Marylebone FC Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Marylebone FC/Belsice FC
4 April 1894 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–2 England Marylebone FC/Belsice FC Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Folkestone
24 February 1895 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–3 England Folkestone Paris, France

H. Whym
Rivaz, Attrill
Bernat, Clarke, Cox
Jack Wood, N. Tunmer, Kemp, Barker, Fraysse		 Report
Clares
Harris, Clark
Welch, Harwood, Baker
Barrett, Marks, Collins, Hirons, Andersons		 Stadium: Seine Velodrome
Attendance: 1,500
Select Paris Paris v England Folkestone
12 April 1895 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–8 England Folkestone Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England English Ramblers
28 December 1896 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–2 England English Ramblers Paris, France
Report
Parisian English XI Paris v England English Ramblers
29 December 1896 Friendly Parisian English XI Paris 1–4 England English Ramblers Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England Horsmonden School
2 January 1897 Friendly Paris XI Paris 0–6 England Horsmonden School Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v  Germany XI
13 February 1898 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–2  Germany XI Paris, France
Meggs
Geo Arnull
Barnold, Sid Wood
Bernat, Tunmer, J. Hicks
O. Hicks, Jack Wood, Meggs, Grandjean, Fraysse		 Report ?
L. Friese
Westendarf, Paul I
Franz, Bensenmann, ScAucker
Paul II, O. Baudach, Wheeler, Walter, Welzler
Note: Some of the German names are pseudonyms.
Paris XI Paris v England East Sheen
31 March 1899 Friendly Paris XI Paris 0–1 England East Sheen Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England East Sheen
1 April 1899 Friendly Paris XI Paris 0–3 England East Sheen Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England English Ramblers
3 April 1899 Friendly Paris XI Paris 1–7 England English Ramblers Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England Horsmonden School
8 January 1902 Friendly Paris XI Paris 4–1 England Horsmonden School Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England Horsmonden School
9 January 1902 Friendly Paris XI Paris 1–3 England Horsmonden School Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England Horsmonden School
10 January 1902 Friendly Paris XI Paris 1–3 England Horsmonden School Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England Newcastle United
1 September 1904 Friendly Paris XI Paris 2–11 England Newcastle United Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Arcadian FC
2 January 1905 Friendly Select Paris Paris 4–1 England Arcadian FC Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England English Ramblers
25 April 1905 Friendly Paris XI Paris 4–2 England English Ramblers Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England North London FC
20 January 1907 Friendly Select Paris Paris 4–3 England North London FC Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England Old Etonians
1 April 1907 Friendly Paris XI Paris 1–3 England Old Etonians Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Select London
25 December 1907 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–6 England Select London Paris, France
Report
Comité de Paris Paris v England Corinthian
17 April 1908 Friendly Comité de Paris Paris 1–5 England Corinthian Paris, France
Report
Paris XI Paris v England Old Edwardians FC
12 April 1909 Friendly Paris XI Paris 0–13 England Old Edwardians FC Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Select London
1 January 1910 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–10 England Select London Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Civil Service
29 March 1910 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–2 England Civil Service Paris, France
Report
Paris Paris v  Catalonia
24 July 1910 Friendly Paris Paris 3–1  Catalonia San Sebastián, Spain
Triboulet
Mathey 		Comamala
Select Paris Paris v England Civil Service
30 October 1910 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–6 England Civil Service Paris, France
Report
Comité de Paris Paris v England Middlesex County
11 December 1910 Friendly Comité de Paris Paris 2–4 England Middlesex County Paris, France
Report

LFA

Select Paris Paris v England London League
18 December 1910 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–5 England London League Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Select London
8 December 1912 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–2 England Select London Paris, France

Chayriguès
Massip, Letailleur
Lhermitte, Vascout, Barreau
Niggli, Rouchès, Maës, Vialmonteil, Fenouillière		 Report1
Report2
A. Nicholls
F. T. Weblin, Scholl
W. Hales, A. Whyman, J. W. Sudds
S. Wayment, R. Noble, G. W. Bell, H. J. Mallett, S. Croll		 Referee: M. J. C. Starck
Select Paris Paris v England London League
1 November 1913 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–5 England London League Paris, France




Germann
Zullig, Gravier
Devic, Vascout, Barreau
Niggli, Surmick, Maës, Romano, Triboulet		 Report1
(page 38) Report2		 Chapman 0–1', 0–2'
? 0–3'
Vascout 0–4', o.g.'
Broster 0–5'
Thomas Newton
Rhodes, Ford
Broster, Critcher (capt.), C. G. Garland
Greenaway, Chapman, McMahon, Keene, G. A. Littier		 Referee: Stark (president of the London Referees Association)
Lions des Flandres France v Paris Select Paris
4 January 1914 Friendly Lions des Flandres France 3–0 Paris Select Paris Lille, France
14:34 Lesur 34'
Six 72'
Dubly 78'
Parsys
Moigneu, Hanot
Dujardin, Ducret, Gravelines
Dubly, Chandelier, Lesur, Six, Eloy		 Report


Chayriguès
Gravier, Pellan
Devic, Gamblin, Barreau
Romano, Rouchès, Maës, Morel, Triboulet		 Referee: M. Tromp (Netherlands)
France  v Foreigners of Paris
18 January 1914 Friendly France  0–0 Foreigners of Paris Paris, France
Report (page 45) Germann
Zullig, Romano
Jordan, Eggenschwyler, Steiner
Niggli, Matthey, Surwick, Solka, Burgin		 Stadium: Saint-Michel Legion Stadium
Select Brussels Belgium v Paris Select Paris
15 March 1914 Friendly Select Brussels Belgium 1–1 Paris Select Paris Saint-Ouen, France
Report (page 45) Stadium: Stade de Paris
Select Paris Paris v England London League
22 March 1914 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–5 England London League Paris, France
Report (page 46)
Report2
Select Paris Paris v France Lions des Flandres
12 May 1919 Friendly Select Paris Paris 4–4 France Lions des Flandres Saint-Ouen, France
Report Stadium: Stade de Paris

Modern

Select Paris Paris v England Select London
1 November 1924 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–3 England Select London Paris, France
Report1
Paris Paris v  Catalonia
1 November 1925 Friendly Paris Paris 2–3  Catalonia Hauts-de-Seine, France
Cordon
Maulene 		Samitier
Cros
Martínez 		Stadium: Stade de Colombes
Referee: Vandewegaete
Catalonia  v Paris Paris
16 May 1926 Friendly Catalonia  4–0 Paris Paris Barcelona, Catalonia
Sastre
Pedrol
Broto 		Report Stadium: Camp de Les Corts
Referee: Mariné
Select Paris Paris v England Motherwell
12 June 1927 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–3 England Motherwell Paris, France
Report1
Select Paris Paris v England Select London
30 October 1928 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–2 England Select London Paris, France
Report1
Select Paris Paris v England Middlesex Wanderers
20 May 1929 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–3 England Middlesex Wanderers Paris, France
Report1
Paris XI Paris v England Newcastle United
22 May 1932 Friendly Paris XI Paris 3–1 England Newcastle United Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Blackburn Rovers
21 May 1933 Friendly Select Paris Paris 1–3 England Blackburn Rovers Paris, France
Report
Select Paris Paris v England Middlesex Wanderers
May 1934 Friendly Select Paris Paris 0–3 England Middlesex Wanderers Amsterdam, Netherlands
Report1
Select Paris Paris v England Select London
14 April 1935 Friendly Select Paris Paris 3–3 England Select London Paris, France
Report1
Select Paris Paris v England Wolverhampton Wanderers
22 May 1938 Friendly Select Paris Paris 2–1 England Wolverhampton Wanderers Paris, France
Report1


References

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  5. "Sélectionneurs des Bleus, les bonus (5/11): Eugène Fraysse" [The Blues’ selectors, the bonuses (5/11): Eugène Fraysse]. www.chroniquesbleues.fr (in French). 4 December 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
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  8. "Turnverein Duisburg 1848" [Duisburg Gymnastics Club 1848]. duisburger-spielverein.multipurpose.de (in German). Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
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