The following year, the club left its forever home Stade Yves-du-Manoir for its new stadium, the Paris La Défense Arena.

On 20 March 1892 the USFSA organised the first-ever French rugby championship, a one-off game between Racing and Stade Français.

Due to World War I the French championship was replaced with a competition called the Coupe de l'Espérance.

The Racing Club would next play in the championship final in the 1987 season, where they met Toulon at Parc des Princes in Paris.

But in the wake of the 1990 title, Racing Club had a hard time adapting to the professional era and started to decline, until they were relegated to Division 2 at the end of the 1995–96 season.

Racing 92's president is Jacky Lorenzetti, who heads a giant real estate company called Foncia.

The creation of the Challenge Yves du Manoir responded to this ideal in a period (late 1920s–early 1930s) where French rugby was marred by violence and undergoing creeping professionalism.

Their famous antics were invented by the club's backs (including France flyhalf Franck Mesnel and France wing Jean-Baptiste Lafond) who once played a game in Bayonne with berets on their heads as a tribute to the tradition of attacking play of the Basque club Aviron Bayonnais (11 Jan 1987).

As members of a gang which they called le show bizz, they played other matches with black make-up on (10 April 1988 at Stade Toulousain), hair dyed yellow, bald caps (26 Feb 1989 against Béziers), wigs and even dressed up as pelote players (white shirts, black jackets and berets, again) in March 1990 at Biarritz Olympique.

In April 1989, they wore long red and white striped shorts to celebrate the sans-culotte who took the Bastille on 14 July 1789.

Just before kick-off, Lafond presented French president François Mitterrand, who always attended the national final, with one of those bow ties.

At half-time, they had a drink of champagne on the pitch to recover from the efforts of the first half—and won what proved to be the club's last top-flight title for a quarter-century.

All this contributed to the image of Racing Club as an eccentric institution, but these players have also been seen as trail blazers for Stade Français's president Max Guazzini, who a few years later, took up the provocative (such as the use of the pink colour) and imaginative spirit to boost his club's image and shake off the conservative traditionalism of French rugby.

As the club hit the front pages, five players capitalised on the success and went on to start a sportswear clothing business called Eden Park (after the famous Auckland stadium) in late 1987.

In 2003, Eden Park became the official supplier of the Welsh Rugby Union's formal wear for the World Cup in Australia.

The following year saw Racing's ambitions realised with a romp to the Pro D2 crown, clinching promotion with four rounds to spare.

The 2010–11 season saw Racing emphatically, though only temporarily, reestablish themselves as the top club in Paris, finishing second on the regular-season table to Stade Français' 11th.

More significantly, while he largely bankrolled the team during the first years of his tenure as president, he is committed to making the club self-supporting.

"[6] Carter filled the void at fly-half left by the return of Johnny Sexton to Leinster Rugby at the end of the 2014–15 season.

The Racing 92 squad for the 2024–25 season is:[8][9] Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules.

The Racing 92 Espoirs squad is:[10] Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules.