Category for players of association football described in sources as having resided in Paris; this may refer either to the central city – an administrative department (75) within the Île-de-France region – or to the wider Metropolis divided into three departments forming a ring of inner suburbs, and four departments of outer satellite towns and the rural hinterland. Those players specifically noted as being from one of these suburban areas or towns have been categorised separately as appropriate, albeit in some contexts they too may be mentioned as being simply from Paris.