The Pôle Espoirs Football de Ploufragan, based at the Centre Technique Régional Henri Guérin (Henri Guérin Regional Technical Centre), commonly referred to as PEF Ploufragan, is one of the sixteen élite academies of France; only the best players from the Brittany région train there. There are thirteen other élite youth academies in Metropolitan France (Castelmaurou, Châteauroux, Clairefontaine, Liévin, Dijon, Aix-en-Provence, Reims, etc) covering the whole territory.