Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines

The INF Clairefontaine ("Institut national du football de Clairefontaine"), known as INF or simply Clairefontaine, is the national football centre that specialises in training French football players. The INF Clairefontaine is a section of the CNF Clairefontaine. The academy is one of sixteen élite academies located in and around France that are supervised by the French Football Federation (FFF). Only the best players from the Île-de-France région train at the Clairefontaine academy. The twelve other academies are situated in Castelmaurou, Châteauroux, Liévin, Dijon, Marseille, Ploufragan, Vichy and Reims, Réunion, Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, Guadeloupe and Talence.Clairefontaine opened in 1988 and is named after Fernand Sastre, the president of the FFF from 1972–1984. The academy is located 50 km southwest of Paris at Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines and is one of the best known football academies in the world. It has a high reputation of producing some of the most gifted French and non-French players including Nicolas Anelka, Louis Saha, William Gallas, Hatem Ben Arfa, Abou Diaby, Medhi Benatia, Blaise Matuidi, Raphaël Guerreiro, Kylian Mbappé, and Thierry Henry. The CNF Clairefontaine is also used to house the national football team of France and the centre drew media spotlight following its usage as a base camp by the France team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Sonchamp (French pronunciation: [sɔ̃ʃɑ̃] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

La Celle-les-Bordes (French pronunciation: [la sɛl le bɔʁd] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Ponthévrard (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃tevʁaʁ]) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Vieille-Église-en-Yvelines (French pronunciation: [vjɛj eɡliz ɑ̃.n‿ivlin] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey (French: Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay) was a Cistercian monastery in northern France (Île-de-France), situated in Cernay-la-Ville, in the Diocese of Versailles, Yvelines.

The arrondissement of Rambouillet is an arrondissement of France in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region. It has 83 communes. Its population is 228,785 (2019), and its area is 987.3 km2 (381.2 sq mi).

Rambouillet is a railway station serving Rambouillet, a southwestern suburb of Paris, France. It is on the Paris–Brest railway, leading from Paris-Montparnasse to Brest via Chartres, Nogent-le-Rotrou and Le Mans.

The canton of Rambouillet is an administrative division of the Yvelines department, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Rambouillet. It consists of the following communes:

The forest of Rambouillet (French: Forêt de Rambouillet, pronounced [fɔʁɛ də ʁɑ̃bujɛ]), also known as the forest of Yveline (Forêt de l'Yveline [fɔʁɛ də livlin]) is a large forest covering some 200 km² (77 square miles), located to the west of Paris, in the Île-de-France region of France. The town of Rambouillet, after which it is named, lies on its southern edge.

Rambouillet (UK: , US: , French: [ʁɑ̃bujɛ] ) is a subprefecture of the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of France. It is located beyond the outskirts of Paris, 44.3 km (27.5 mi) southwest of its centre. In 2018, the commune had a population of 26,933. Rambouillet lies on the edge of the vast Forest of Rambouillet (Forêt de Rambouillet or Forêt de l'Yveline); it is famous for its historical castle, the Château de Rambouillet, which hosted several international summits. Due to its proximity to Paris and Versailles, Rambouillet has long been an occasional seat of government.