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Seine-Saint-Denis (Department, France): Sport flags

Red Star

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Red Star

Red Star's supporter flag - Image by Ivan Sache, 5 April 2000

Red Star was in the 50's one of the most famous French football clubs. It is the club of Saint-Ouen, a big city located north Paris and in the past one of the "hot spots" of the workers' movements (it was one of the first cities where a factory worker was elected Mayor.) Red Star is one of the only French clubs whose name is always used without appending the name of the city.
The club was created in 1897 in the borough of Gros Caillou, in the VIIth arrondissement of Paris, fairly conservative, by Charles de Saint-Cyr, Jean de Pressac and Jules Rimet (the founder of the football World Cup). The name of Red Star was found by the British governess of a member of the club and has nothing to do with the Communist red star (like in the Red Star of Belgrade, for instance). Until 1946, the club played in Saint-Ouen but remained registered in Paris. In 1946, it was transferred to Saint-Ouen and incorporated the smaller clubs of the city.
The most common flag used by supporters is a vertically divided green-white-green flag, with the five-pointed red etar in the middle of the white stripe.

Ivan Sache & Jérôme Sterkers, 17 December 2005