Carpentras XIII

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Carpentras XIII

Full name	RC de Carpentras XIII et du Comtat
Founded	1947
Ground	Stade de la Roseraie
Capacity	12,000
CEO	Lyes Jendoubi
Coach	Jeff Cagnac
League	French rugby league championship
2006	10th

RC Carpentras XIII are a semi-professional rugby league football club based in the city of Carpentras in the south of France. They play in the French rugby league championship and as to date have never achieved either a Championship victory or attained a Lord Derby Cup title with their best result being a finals position in the 1992 cup competition.

The club was founded in 1947 under the name RC de Carpentras XIII et du Comtat by which they are still officially known today though are more commonly referred as simply Carpentras. The club being based in the south of France has several long-standing rivalrys with other southern based clubs including AS Carcassonne and the Catalan club Les Catalans.

1 History
2 Crest
3 Current squad
4 Honours
5 External links

[edit] History

RC de Carpentras XIII et du Comtat was formed in 1947 by local residents hailing from the city of Carpentras in the south of France, the club originally competed in the amateur French league where it gained immediate success winning back to back titles over its first two competitive seasons. These victories allowed the club to progress to the French rugby league championship second division where it would then repeat the success it had achieved at amateur level going on to win another two consecutive titles in both the 1949 and 1950 seasons.

After having maximum success in the lower french leagues the Carpentras club progressed to the French rugby league championship in 1951 but the success that they had achieved on the field in previous showings would elude them in the top flight competition. After having captured four titles in its first four years after formation the club would fail to win a major title in either the Championship or the Lord Derby Cup over the next fifty-seven years.

[edit] Crest

The clubs logo is that a red bull uncannily similar in style to that of the club logo of American basketball team the Chicago Bulls; it has only adopted this logo in more recent times.

[edit] Current squad

No.		Position	Player
		FE	Jérôme Alonso
		HK	Brahim Arab
		HB	Damien Bonnet
		WG	Michael Bradley
		LK	Joris Caganc
		WG	Mohamed-Ali Chaabi
		FB	Illyes Chamsi
		SR	Jason Chapman
		SR	Nicolas Chaumard
		CE	Régis Chave
		PR	Mohamed Essaiddiki
		HK	Rémy Fontana

No.		Position	Player
		FB	Loîc Gardiol
		CE	Renaud Guigue (c)
		CE	Todd Keays
		SR	Jean-Christophe Lavaux
		PR	Raphaël Musichini
		HB	Maxime Pala
		FB	Romain Pavoni
		PR	Marc Roccaro
		WG	Alexis Rodriguez
		SR	Glen Smith
		WG	Olivier Warmee

[edit] Honours

French Championship: 0

Lord Derby Cup: 0

[edit] External links

French Rugby League - Elite Championship
AS Carcassonne \| Carpentras XIII \| Les Catalans \| Lézignan Sangliers \| Limoux Grizzlies \| Lyon Villeurbanne \| Marseille XIII \| Pia XIII \| St Gaudens \| Toulouse Olympique \| US Villeneuve \| Villefranche XIII Aveyron

French Rugby League links
Competitions French Championship \| Lord Derby Cup \| Challenge Cup \| Super League
National side France
International Competitions Rugby League World Cup \| Rugby League European Nations Cup