The Stade Georges Lefèvre Training Center (French: Centre d'entraînement du Stade Georges Lefèvre), commonly known as the Camp des Loges, is a sports facility in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. Since October 2024, it has served as the training facility of rugby union club Stade Français; from July 1970 to June 2023, football club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) was the tenant.
The current version of the Camp des Loges opened in November 2008, and is the second to have been built on the site, with the first opening its doors in June 1904. The main stadium of the Camp des Loges, the Stade Georges Lefèvre, was also operated by PSG.
The Stade Georges Lefèvre Training Center was inaugurated on 21 June 1904, under the name of Stade des Loges, to coincide with the foundation of now-dissolved French football club Stade Saint-Germain that same year.[1][2] It was nicknamed Camp des Loges[fr] after the nearby military base of the same name reserved for soldiers of the French Army.[3]
In 1945, following the death of Stade Saint-Germain player Georges Lefèvre during World War II in 1940, the Stade des Loges changed its name to Stade Georges Lefèvre in his honor. Its main football stadium, the homonymously called Stade Georges Lefèvre, has a seating capacity of 2,164 spectators distributed over three stands, but can hold more people standing up.[2] In 1970, following the merger of Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germain to form Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Camp des Loges became the club's training ground.[3] Since then, the site also serves as the headquarters of the Association Paris Saint-Germain.[4]
PSG's male team conducted their first training session on the pitches of the Camp des Loges on 28 July 1970. Former club president Guy Crescent, who was in attendance that day, famously declared to the press, "From now on, you belong to a family. Paris Football Club and Stade Saint-Germain are over. We are now Paris Saint-Germain!"[5] Camp des Loges was also the training facility of the women's team from 1971 until 2012, when they moved to Bougival, and of the club's academy starting on 4 November 1975.[3][5][6][7][8]
Renovations on the Camp des Loges began in January 2008 and finished on 4 November 2008, at a cost of €5m.[5][9] In September 2013, the club signed a sponsorship contract with telecommunications company Ooredoo. As part of the deal, the Camp des Loges was renamed Ooredoo Training Centre. The deal lasted until the departure of PSG's male team.[5][10] They trained one last time at the Camp des Loges on 2 June 2023. They moved to Campus PSG, located in nearby Poissy, in July 2023.[5][11]
The women's team briefly returned to Camp des Loges in June 2023, before definitely moving into Campus PSG in January 2024.[5][12][13] The club's academy also moved to the new site that month.[14]Rugby union club Stade Français became the new tenants of the Camp des Loges in October 2024.[15] However, the Association Paris Saint-Germain would continue to have its headquarters at the ground.[16]
↑ "Stade Georges Lefèvre". Centre de préparation aux Jeux de Paris2024. 18 January 2024. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
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