Stade Montois
Stade Montois vs.
LOU in 2005
Stade Montois is a French rugby union team that will play the 2012–13 season in Top 14, the top level of the country's professional league system. They returned to the top flight after winning the 2011–12 promotion playoffs in Rugby Pro D2.
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 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 Jan. 1, 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
Finals results
French championship
Current standings
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Club |
Played |
Won |
Drawn |
Lost |
Points For |
Points Against |
Points Difference |
Try Bonus |
Losing Bonus |
Points |
| 1 | Pau | 28 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 704 | 472 | +232 | | | 93 |
| 2 | Agen | 28 | 17 | 0 | 11 | 688 | 559 | +129 | | | 79 |
| 3 | Mont-de-Marsan | 28 | 17 | 0 | 11 | 628 | 506 | +122 | | | 77 |
| 4 | Perpignan | 28 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 697 | 570 | +127 | | | 77 |
| 5 | Albi | 28 | 16 | 0 | 12 | 595 | 558 | +37 | | | 72 |
| 6 | Biarritz | 28 | 16 | 0 | 12 | 593 | 534 | +59 | | | 72 |
| 7 | Aurillac | 28 | 15 | 2 | 11 | 593 | 531 | +62 | | | 72 |
| 8 | Colomiers | 28 | 15 | 0 | 13 | 584 | 571 | +13 | | | 65 |
| 9 | Béziers | 28 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 591 | 585 | +6 | | | 59 |
| 10 | Montauban | 28 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 551 | 576 | –25 | | | 59 |
| 11 | Carcassonne | 28 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 624 | 658 | –34 | | | 58 |
| 12 | Tarbes | 28 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 573 | 697 | −124 | | | 57 |
| 13 | Bourgoin | 28 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 478 | 591 | –113 | | | 47 |
| 14 | Narbonne | 28 | 10 | 1 | 17 | 527 | 682 | −155 | | | 45 |
| 15 | Dax | 28 | 9 | 1 | 18 | 469 | 612 | −143 | | | 43 |
| 16 | Massy | 28 | 7 | 0 | 21 | 584 | 777 | −193 | | | 37 |
| Green background (row 1) Champions automatically promoted to Top 14. Blue background denotes teams that qualify for the promotion play-offs. Red background (row 15 and 16) will be relegated to Fédérale 1. Updated: 27 April 2015
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Current squad
2014-15 season
Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.
•Internationally capped players in bold.
Notable former players
See also
References
External links
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André Boniface