Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing

Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing is a French rugby union club, currently playing in the third highest division of the French league system, in Fédérale 1. Nice was founded in 1912, as Racing Rugby Club de Nice. Nice has in the past been in the top division of French rugby, and was runner-up in the national championship in the 1982-83 season. In 1985 Nice won the Challenge Yves du Manoir.

Head coach for 2007-09 was former Nice, Stade Français and France flanker Christophe Moni. Will Johnson is the current player coach assisted by Kevin Yates and Manu Boutet.

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Honours

Finals results

French championship

Date Winner Runner-up Score 'Venue Spectators
20 May 1983 AS Béziers RRC Nice 14-6 Parc des Princes, Paris 43,100

Challenge Yves du Manoir

Year Winner Score Runner-up
1985 RC Nice 21-16 AS Montferrand

Current squad

For the 2009-10 season

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under IRB eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-IRB nationality.

Player Position Union
Kevin Yates Prop England
Florian Traversa Prop France
Grant Hill Prop New Zealand
Damien Canizares Prop France
Guillaume Guarese Prop France
Victor Langlade Prop France
Pier-Nicol Feldis Hooker France
Stuart Mackie Hooker England
Will Johnson Lock England
Salim Boukanoucha Lock France
Antoine Derrstroff Lock France
Dean Moxham Flanker New Zealand
François Ducourtieux Flanker France
Emmanuel Roulier Flanker France
Ross Beattie Flanker Scotland
Gregory Herrera Number 8 France
Player Position Union
Eric Delage Scrum-half France
Gregory Chambon Scrum-half France
Jocelyn Lapierre Fly-half France
Mark McHugh Fly-half Ireland
Dan Luger Centre England
Thomas Mege Centre France
Rudi Keil Centre South Africa
Jeremy Benstaali Centre France
Billy Ngawini Centre New Zealand
Paddy Warwick Centre Ireland
Julien Roman Wing France
Youssouf Drame Wing France
Lome Fa'atau Wing Samoa
Adrien Malavard Wing France
Christos Fiotakis Fullback Greece
Julien Caminati Fullback France

Famous players

See also

External links