Standard Athletic Club

[2] The club was founded on 1 March 1890, in the back-room of the "Horse shoe" bar at rue Copernic in the 8th arrondissement.

The club won the first ever Football Championship of France in 1894 and supplied most of the French team that played the only cricket match ever to be held in an Olympiad, at the Paris 1900 Olympic Games.

Up to the war, the main sporting activities were football, tennis, field hockey, and cricket.

In 1922, the historic decision to ensure a permanent home for the Club led to the purchase of the present grounds in Meudon.

The swimming pool was opened in 1962; the golf section made its debut in 1979; and the first squash court was built in 1976.