Castres Olympique
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| Full name | Castres Olympique | |||
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| Founded | 1906 | |||
| Location | Castres, France | |||
| Ground(s) | Stade Pierre-Antoine (Capacity: 11,500) | |||
| President | Pierre-Yves Revol | |||
| Coach(es) | Christophe Urios | |||
| League(s) | Top 14 | |||
| 2015–16 | 6th (playoff quarter-finalists) | |||
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Castres Olympique (French pronunciation: [kastʁ olimpik]) is a French rugby union club located in the Occitanian city of Castres and currently competing in the top level of the French league system.
Founded in 1898, the club took its current name in 1906. They play at the Stade Pierre-Antoine, which is one of the smallest in Top 14 with a capacity of 11,500. The team wear blue and white kits.
The team won four French top-division championships in 1949, 1950, 1993 and 2013, as well as one Coupe de France in 1948.
History
In 1898 several alumni of Castres' municipal college met in a city centre bar and decided to create a team allowing them to play their favourite sport, rugby union. For the first few years this team was part of a multisport club until 1906. Unhappy with the dominating position cycling had within the club, the members of the rugby section decided to leave and create a club of their own, solely dedicated to their sport. It was decided that this club would be named Castres Olympique and its colours would be changed from yellow and black to its current blue, white and grey.
The new club reached the top flight after only 15 years of existence and has remained there ever since, bar for a couple of years during the 80s when the club was in the then Section B of the 1st division. The club has never left the 1st division since 1921.
For a while Castres Olympique would experience mixed fortunes until 1948 when they reached and won their first Coupe de France. The prestigious championship would follow a year later, and again in 1950.
From the 1960s the club would experience a stream of mediocre seasons and steady decline until Pierre Fabre, the founder of a local pharmaceutical company, decided to take over the club and restore it to its former relative glory in 1988.
The 1992–93 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Castres who beat Grenoble 14–11 in the final, but a try of Olivier Brouzet is denied to Grenoble[1] and the decisive try by Gary Whetton was awarded by the referee, Daniel Salles, when in fact the defender Franck Hueber from Grenoble touched down the ball first in his try zone. This error gave the title to Castres. Salles admitted the error 13 years later[2] .[3] .[4]
The club reached the final again in 1995 losing to Toulouse.
Castres won the 2012–13 French Rugby Union Championship beating Toulon 19–14 in the final.[5]
The team's owner, Pierre Fabre, the founder of Laboratoires Pierre Fabre. died on July 20, 2013.[6]
Honours
- French championship:
- Champions (4) : 1949, 1950, 1993, 2013
- Runners-up (2) : 1995, 2014
- Coupe de France:
- Champions (1) : 1948
- Challenge Yves du Manoir:
- Runners-up (1) : 1993
- Group B French Champions:
- Champions (1) : 1989
- European Challenge Cup:
- Runners-up (2) : 1997, 2000
- European Shield:
- Champions (1) : 2003
Finals results
French championship
| Date | Winners | Runners-up | Score | Venue | Spectators |
| 22 May 1949 | Castres Olympique | Stade Montois | 14-3 1 | Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse | 23,000 |
| 16 April 1950 | Castres Olympique | Racing Club de France | 11-8 | Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse | 25,000 |
| 5 June 1993 | Castres Olympique | FC Grenoble | 14-11 | Parc des Princes, Paris | 48,000 |
| 6 May 1995 | Stade Toulousain | Castres Olympique | 31-16 | Parc des Princes, Paris | 48,615 |
| 1 June 2013 | Castres Olympique | RC Toulon | 19-14 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis | 80,033 |
| 31 May 2014 | RC Toulon | Castres Olympique | 18-10 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis | 80,174 |
Current standings
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| Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points For | Points Against | Points Diff. | Tries For | Tries Against | Try Bonus | Losing Bonus | Points | |||||
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| 1 | Clermont | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 378 | 286 | +92 | 38 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 41 | ||||
| 2 | Montpellier | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 318 | 253 | +65 | 26 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 37 | ||||
| 3 | La Rochelle | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 312 | 265 | +47 | 30 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 36 | ||||
| 4 | Toulon | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 336 | 266 | +90 | 32 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 36 | ||||
| 5 | Bordeaux | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 316 | 297 | +19 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 34 | ||||
| 6 | Castres | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 335 | 259 | +76 | 29 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 34 | ||||
| 7 | Toulouse | 13 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 272 | 252 | +20 | 25 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 33 | ||||
| 8 | Racing | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 291 | 285 | +6 | 29 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 32 | ||||
| 9 | Stade Français | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 338 | 313 | +25 | 33 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 29 | ||||
| 10 | Brive | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 288 | 341 | –53 | 19 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 27 | ||||
| 11 | Pau | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 296 | 342 | –46 | 27 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 25 | ||||
| 12 | Lyon | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 263 | 298 | –35 | 19 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 24 | ||||
| 13 | Bayonne | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 188 | 341 | –153 | 11 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||||
| 14 | Grenoble | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 297 | 430 | –193 | 28 | 40 | 1 | 5 | 14 | ||||
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If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
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| Green background (rows 1 and 2) receive semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2017–18 European Rugby Champions Cup. Blue background (rows 3 to 6) receive quarter-final play-off places, and receive berths in the Champions Cup. Yellow background (row 7) advances to a play-off for a chance to compete in the Champions Cup. Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2017–18 European Rugby Challenge Cup. Red background (row 13 and 14) will be relegated to Rugby Pro D2. Final table | |||||||||||||||||
Current squad
2016-17 Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.
Notable former players
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Ignacio Fernández Lobbe - Mario Ledesma
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Phil Christophers - Paul Volley
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Seremaia Bai -
Marc Andreu - David Attoub
- Pierre Bernard
- David Bory
- Mathieu Bourret
- Alain Carminati
- Romain Cabannes
- Thomas Castaignède
- Gerard Cholley
- Antonie Claassen
- Arnaud Costes
- Yann Delaigue
- Ibrahim Diarra
- Richard Dourthe
- Brice Dulin
- Yannick Forestier
- Romain Froment
- Karim Ghezal
- Raphaël Ibañez
- Benjamin Kayser
- Laurent Labit
- Thierry Lacroix
- Pierre-Gilles Lakafia
- Remi Lamerat
- Lionel Nallet
- Pascal Papé
- Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet
- Matthias Rolland
- Nicolas Spanghero
- Patrick Tabacco
- Rémi Tales
- Guilaume Taussac
- Romain Teulet
- Sébastien Tillous-Borde
- Julien Tomas
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Adrian Lungu -
Akvsenti Giorgadze - Anton Peikrishvili
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Pablo Canavosio - Ramiro Pez
- Fabio Staibano
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Kees Lensing -
Frank Bunce - Carl Hoeft
- Kees Meeuws
- Kevin Senio
- Sitiveni Sivivatu
- Gary Whetton
- Karena Wihongi
- Rudi Wulf
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Darron Nell - Pedrie Wannenburg
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Kirill Kulemin -
Piula Faʻasalele - Laloa Milford
- Joe Tekori
- Freddie Tuilagi
- Romi Ropati
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Max Evans - Richie Gray
- Glenn Metcalfe
- Gregor Townsend
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José Díaz - Cedric Garcia
- Pierre-Emmanuel Garcia
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Salesi Sika
See also
References
- ↑ lacapitale_sto3554485/story.shtml "Combien de fois Bayonne s'est imposé dans la capitale ?" Check
|url=value (help). www.rugbyrama.fr. Midi olympique. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013. - ↑ "Finale Castres-Grenoble 93 : l'insupportable aveu de l'arbitre Salles". rugbyolympic.com. 12 December 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ↑ "Daniel Salles à propos de Castres-Grenoble en 1993 : " Je me suis trompé "". sudouest. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
- ↑ "Parc des Princes, Paris, 5 june 1993". LNR. 28 December 2004. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ↑ "Castres et " la magie du rugby "". http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/. 29 nomvenber 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013. Check date values in:
|date=(help); External link in|website=(help) - ↑ "Pierre Fabre, founder of pharmaceutical giant, dies". Agence France Presse. France 24. 2013-07-20. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
External links
- (French) Castres Olympique Official website