L'Équipe

L' Équipe (French for the team ) is a French sports daily. It is one of the most widely read dailies in the country.

The newspaper was founded after the Second World War on 28 February 1946 as the successor of journalistic title in 1944 banned sports newspaper L'Auto. Since 1948, she appears daily. Today, the seven times weekly, subtitled " Le Quotidien du sport et de l'automobile " newspaper deals with all areas of sports, with a focus on football, rugby, motor sports and cycling. Your daily circulation in 2006 was around 355,000 copies.

In addition, the publisher also publishes sports books that are written with the significant participation of the newspaper office, and, since 1980, a Saturday's appearing weekly magazine, L' Equipe Magazine. More recent are published three times a year since 2005 Sports et Style and since 2006 L' Équipe Féminine. Since August 1998, the publisher also operates a television station called L' Équipe TV.

In 1903, the Tour de France by Henri Desgrange, the former chief editor of L'Auto, founded. To date, the most famous bicycle race in the world by the parent company of L' Équipe, which organizes Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO ). Therefore, the L' Équipe applicable in journalistic circles as the "bible" of the Tour coverage.

Gabriel Hanot, the "father of the European Football Cup ", was instrumental in the L'Equipe as a journalist and editor.

Since 1946, the editors of the newspaper chooses under the title Champion of champions France Sportsman of the Year.