Stade Montois Rugby
Full name | Stade Montois Rugby Pro | ||
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Nickname(s) | Les Abeilles (The Bees) | ||
Founded | 1908 | ||
Location | Mont-de-Marsan, France | ||
Ground(s) | Stade André et Guy Boniface (Capacity: 16,800) | ||
President | Philippe Cazaubon | ||
Coach(es) | David Auradou | ||
Captain(s) | Jérôme Dhien | ||
League(s) | Pro D2 | ||
2023–24 | 8th | ||
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Official website | |||
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- French championship Top 14
- 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
[edit]French championship
[edit]Date | Winners | Score | Runners-up | Venue | Spectators |
22 May 1949 | Castres Olympique | 14-3 | Stade Montois | Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse | 23,000 |
17 May 1953 | FC Lourdes | 21-16 | Stade Montois | Stadium Municipal, Toulouse | 32,500 |
24 May 1959 | Racing Club de France | 8-3 | Stade Montois | Parc Lescure, Bordeaux | 31,098 |
2 June 1963 | Stade Montois | 9-6 | US Dax | Parc Lescure, Bordeaux | 39,000 |
Challenge Yves du Manoir
[edit]Date | Winners | Score | Runners-up |
1958 | SC Mazamet | 3-0 | Stade Montois |
1960 | Stade Montois | 9-9 | AS Béziers |
1961 | Stade Montois | 17-8 | AS Béziers |
1962 | Stade Montois | 14-9 | Section Paloise |
1966 | FC Lourdes | 16-6 | Stade Montois |
Current standings
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | TB | LB | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Provence | 30 | 20 | 2 | 8 | 803 | 632 | +171 | 8 | 3 | 95 | Semi-final promotion playoff place |
2 | Vannes | 30 | 17 | 2 | 11 | 777 | 508 | +269 | 10 | 7 | 89 | |
3 | Béziers | 30 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 789 | 715 | +74 | 6 | 4 | 80 | Quarter-final promotion playoff place |
4 | Grenoble | 30 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 826 | 694 | +132 | 8 | 3 | 79[a] | |
5 | Dax | 30 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 626 | 683 | −57 | 5 | 2 | 77 | |
6 | Brive | 30 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 689 | 583 | +106 | 8 | 2 | 76 | |
7 | Nevers | 30 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 682 | 610 | +72 | 6 | 9 | 75 | |
8 | Mont-de-Marsan | 30 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 766 | 641 | +125 | 5 | 7 | 74 | |
9 | Aurillac | 30 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 593 | 764 | −171 | 3 | 3 | 64 | |
10 | Colomiers | 30 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 661 | 657 | +4 | 4 | 6 | 64 | |
11 | Valence Romans | 30 | 13 | 0 | 17 | 623 | 640 | −17 | 5 | 5 | 62 | |
12 | Soyaux Angoulême | 30 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 563 | 616 | −53 | 0 | 6 | 62 | |
13 | Agen | 30 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 597 | 732 | −135 | 2 | 5 | 61 | |
14 | Biarritz | 30 | 11 | 0 | 19 | 618 | 811 | −193 | 4 | 5 | 53 | |
15 | Montauban | 30 | 11 | 0 | 19 | 577 | 755 | −178 | 2 | 5 | 51 | Relegation play-off |
16 | Rouen | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 604 | 753 | −149 | 5 | 5 | 48 | Relegation to Nationale |
Rules for classification: If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
- Competition points earned in head-to-head matches
- Points difference in head-to-head matches
- Try differential in head-to-head matches
- Points difference in all matches
- Try differential in all matches
- Points scored in all matches
- Tries scored in all matches
- Fewer matches forfeited
- Classification in the previous Top 14 season
Notes:
- ^ Following the decisions rendered by the Appeal Commission on July 6, 2023 and December 14, 2023 by the Disciplinary Council, a withdrawal of 12 points applies for FC Grenoble Rugby.The total sanction was reduced on appeal on 31 January 2024, recovering four points in the ranking.
Current squad
[edit]The squad for the 2023–24 season is:[1][2]
Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.
Espoirs squad
[edit]Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.
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Notable former players
[edit]This list of "famous" or "notable" people has no clear inclusion or exclusion criteria. Please help improve this article by defining clear inclusion criteria to contain only subjects that fit those criteria. (June 2012) |
Carlos Muzzio
Lucio Sordoni
Ben Coutts
Jens Torfs
Josh Jackson
Luke Tait
Martin Jágr
Laurence Pearce
James Voss
Adriu Delai
Vilimoni Delasau
Vereniki Goneva
Wame Lewaravu
Timoci Matanavou
William Ryder
Waisale Serevi
Viliame Satala
Cédric Beal
Alexandre Bécognée
André Boniface
Guy Boniface
Romain Cabannes
André Carrère
Stéphane Castaignède
Thomas Castaignède
Fernand Cazenave
Damien Cler
Pierre Corréia
Marc Dal Maso
Jean Darrieussecq
Christian Darrouy
Benoît Dauga
Walter Desmaison
Fabien Devecchi
Pierre Lacroix
Grégory Le Corvec
Laurent Magnaval
Rémy Martin
Florent Massip
Jean-Marc Mazzonetto
Eric Melville
Alexandre Menini
Arnaud Mignardi
Adrien Oléon
Sébastien Ormaechea
Clément Otazo
Laurent Rodriguez
Olivier Sourgens
Jocelino Suta
Rémi Talès
Willy Taofifénua
Lucas Tauzin
Mikaele Tuugahala
Beka Gorgadze
Tamaz Mchedlidze
Irakli Machkhaneli
Gilles Pagnon
Walter Cristofoletto
Andrea De Marchi
Laurent Travini
Raoul Larson
António Aguilar
André da Silva
Trevor Leota
Sébastien Loubsens
Tevita Mailau
Ephraim Taukafa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Joueurs". Stade Montois Rugby. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ^ "Mont-de-Marsan squad for season 2023/2024". all.rugby. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- (in French) Stade Montois Official website
- (in French) Blog "Marine et Jaune"