- Source: Stade Montois Rugby
Stade Montois Rugby is a French rugby union team that currently is playing in Pro D2, the second level of the country's professional league system.
They were founded in 1908 and play in yellow and black. They are based in Mont-de-Marsan, the capital of the Landes département, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and play at the Stade Guy Boniface.
History
Stade Montois is a multi-sports club (28 sections) but its rugby team has always been its flagship. After winning a few regional titles between the two world wars, it reached the top of French club rugby four times in 15 years. It lost its first three French championship finals to Castres Olympique in 1949 (3-14, in a replay, after the original final had ended in a 3-3 draw), to FC Lourdes in 1953 (16-21), and to Racing Club de France in 1959 (3-8). Their finest hour came in 1963 in an all Landes-final against US Dax, won by the Yellow and Black 9-6. They had finally won one, whereas their Dax neighbours would lose all five finals they would play in.
It finished in the bottom table in the first-tier Top 14 in the 2008–09 season. They had just been promoted to the Top 14 after winning the Pro D2 promotion playoffs. They remained in Pro D2 for three seasons before successfully navigating the 2012 promotion playoffs.
Stade Montois' players include the Boniface brothers (André and Guy, who died in a car accident on 1 January 1968), Thomas Castaignède, Christian Darrouy, Benoît Dauga, Laurent Rodriguez. Former Leicester Tigers and Fiji scrum-half wizard Waisale Serevi also played for them as well as other notable Fijians such as Viliame Satala and Vilimoni Delasau.
Honours
French championship Top 14
Champions (1): 1963
Runners-up (3): 1949, 1953, 1959
Challenge Yves du Manoir
Champions (3): 1960, 1961, 1962
Runners-up (2): 1958, 1966
Pro D2
Champions: 2002
Promotion playoff winners: 2008, 2012
Second Division (Groupe B):
Champions: 1998
Finals results
= French championship
== Challenge Yves du Manoir
=Current standings
Current squad
The squad for the 2023–24 season is:
Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.
= Espoirs squad
=Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.
Notable former players
See also
List of rugby union clubs in France
Rugby union in France
References
External links
(in French) Stade Montois Official website
(in French) Blog "Marine et Jaune"
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Stade Montois Rugby
- Montois
- Dan Baker (rugby union)
- Waisale Serevi
- Guy Boniface
- Mark Flanagan (rugby union)
- Lasha Macharashvili
- Beka Gorgadze
- Thomas Castaignède
- Benoît Dauga
