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Paris Saint-Germain Volleyball

French professional volleyball club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Paris Saint-Germain Volleyball, commonly known as PSG-Asnières or PSG-Racing, was a French professional volleyball club based in Paris, France. It operated as the volleyball department of Paris Saint-Germain FC. It was founded as PSG-Asnières Volley in 1992, following the takeover of Asnières Sports, based in the Paris suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine, by PSG and its owners Canal+. The club competed in the top tier of French volleyball, the LNV Ligue A Masculine, until its dissolution in 1998. Throughout its existence, the team initially played its home fixtures at the Gymnase des Courtilles, before later moving to the Salle Pierre Charpy.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paris Saint-Germain Volleyball” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.