CNFE Clairefontaine

The Pole France feminin de Football (English: French Women's Football Pole), formally the Centre national de formation et d'entraînement de Clairefontaine (English: National Education and Training Center Clairefontaine) is a French training center specializing in women's football, opened in 1998 and administered by the French Football Federation. Formerly located on the Montjoye estate in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, since 2014 the Pole has been located at the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (INSEP) in Paris. From 2002 through 2007, CNFE Clairefontaine, as it was commonly known, played in the Division 1 Féminine. History Created in 1998 at the initiative of Aimé Jacquet, training center invites around 20 of the best prospects of French women's football every year. These youth players, aged 15 to 18 years old, are international players or referred from their home club to take advantage of federal structures to improve their training. Toward this end, the French Football Federation involved the CNFE in the first division between 2002 and 2007. Since 2008, players from the CNFE academy have been sent to their home clubs for the matches during the weekends.