Abstract
The early development of football in France provided recognition of Paris and its suburbs as a hegemonic space, from both a sporting and organisational point of view. While Parisian leaders were behind the autonomisation and internationalisation of French football, teams and players from the Paris region were among the most sought-after, with the most media coverage, in the country. From the 1910s onwards, however, the transformation of the institutional scene, the emergence of very competitive provincial teams, and the commercialisation of the game relegated Parisian football to the sporting periphery. Highlighting the causes behind both the sporting hegemony and the subsequently declining status of the capital of a strongly centralised state, this paper investigates how sporting excellence was re-distributed following the institutional and subsequent economic autonomisation of football.
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