Castres Olympique

Full name

Castres Olympique

Founded

1906

Location

Castres, France

Ground(s)

Stade Pierre-Antoine (Capacity: 11,500)

President

Pierre-Yves Revol

Coach(es)

Christophe Urios

League(s)

Top 14

2016–17

5th (playoff quarter-finalists)

1st kit

2nd kit

3rd kit

Official website

www.castres-olympique.com

Castres Olympique (French pronunciation: [kastʁ olimpik]) is a French rugby union club located in the Occitanian city of Castres and is currently competing in the top level of the French league system.

Founded in 1898, the club took its current name in 1906. They play at the Stade Pierre-Antoine, which is one of the smallest in Top 14 with a capacity of 11,500. The team wear blue and white kits.

The team won four French top-division championships in 1949, 1950, 1993 and 2013, as well as one Coupe de France in 1948.

History

In 1898 several alumni of Castres' municipal college met in a city centre bar and decided to create a team allowing them to play their favourite sport, rugby union. For the first few years this team was part of a multisport club until 1906. Unhappy with the dominating position cycling had within the club, the members of the rugby section decided to leave and create a club of their own, solely dedicated to their sport. It was decided that this club would be named Castres Olympique and its colours would be changed from yellow and black to its current blue, white and grey.

The new club reached the top flight after only 15 years of existence and has remained there ever since, bar for a couple of years during the 80s when the club was in the then Section B of the 1st division. The club has never left the 1st division since 1921.

For a while Castres Olympique would experience mixed fortunes until 1948 when they reached and won their first Coupe de France. The prestigious championship would follow a year later, and again in 1950.

From the 1960s the club would experience a stream of mediocre seasons and steady decline until Pierre Fabre, the founder of a local pharmaceutical company, decided to take over the club and restore it to its former relative glory in 1988.

The 1992–93 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Castres who beat Grenoble 14–11 in the final, but a try of Olivier Brouzet is denied to Grenoble^[1] and the decisive try by Gary Whetton was awarded by the referee, Daniel Salles, when in fact the defender Franck Hueber from Grenoble touched down the ball first in his try zone. This error gave the title to Castres. Salles admitted the error 13 years later.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The club reached the final again in 1995 losing to Toulouse.

Castres won the 2012–13 French Rugby Union Championship beating Toulon 19–14 in the final.^[5]

The team's owner, Pierre Fabre, the founder of Laboratoires Pierre Fabre. died on July 20, 2013.^[6]

Honours

French championship:
- Champions (4) : 1949, 1950, 1993, 2013
- Runners-up (2) : 1995, 2014
Coupe de France:
- Champions (1) : 1948
Challenge Yves du Manoir:
- Runners-up (1) : 1993
Group B French Champions:
- Champions (1) : 1989
European Challenge Cup:
- Runners-up (2) : 1997, 2000
European Shield:
- Champions (1) : 2003

Finals results

French championship

Date	Winners	Runners-up	Score	Venue	Spectators
22 May 1949	Castres Olympique	Stade Montois	14-3 ¹	Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse	23,000
16 April 1950	Castres Olympique	Racing Club de France	11-8	Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse	25,000
5 June 1993	Castres Olympique	FC Grenoble	14-11	Parc des Princes, Paris	48,000
6 May 1995	Stade Toulousain	Castres Olympique	31-16	Parc des Princes, Paris	48,615
1 June 2013	Castres Olympique	RC Toulon	19-14	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	80,033
31 May 2014	RC Toulon	Castres Olympique	18-10	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	80,174

Current standings

2016–17 Top 14 Table

Club

Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

Points For

Points Against

Points Diff.

Tries For

Tries Against

Try Bonus

Losing Bonus

Points

La Rochelle (SF)

707

498

+209

Clermont (CH)

800

562

+238

Montpellier (QF)

750

564

+186

Toulon (RU)

674

511

+163

Castres (QF)

667

509

+158

Racing (SF)

586

616

–30

Stade Français

643

638

Brive

577

634

–57

Pau

604

701

–97

Lyon

573

632

–59

Bordeaux

569

581

–12

Toulouse

537

561

–24

Grenoble (R)

611

852

–241

Bayonne (R)

466

905

–439

107

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

Green background (rows 1 and 2) receive semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2017–18 European Rugby Champions Cup.
Blue background (rows 3 to 6) receive quarter-final play-off places, and receive berths in the Champions Cup.
Yellow background (row 7) advances to a play-off for a chance to compete in the Champions Cup.
Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2017–18 European Rugby Challenge Cup.
Red background (row 13 and 14) will be relegated to Rugby Pro D2. Final table

Current squad

2017-18 Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player	Position	Union
Kevin Firmin	Hooker	France
Jody Jenneker	Hooker	South Africa
Marc-Antoine Rallier	Hooker	France
Daniel Kotze	Prop	France
Mihai Lazăr	Prop	Romania
Yoann Montes	Prop	France
Eric Sione	Prop	New Zealand
Tudor Stroe	Prop	France
Antoine Tichit	Prop	France
Damien Tussac	Prop	Germany
Rodrigo Capo Ortega	Lock	Uruguay
Loic Jacquet	Lock	France
Thibault Lassalle	Lock	France
Steve Mafi	Lock	Tonga
Victor Moreaux	Lock	France
Christophe Samson	Lock	France
Mathieu Babillot	Flanker	France
Alexandre Bias	Flanker	France
Yannick Caballero	Flanker	France
Baptiste Delaporte	Flanker	France
Maama Vaipulu	Flanker	New Zealand
Anthony Jelonch	Number 8	France
Alex Tulou	Number 8	New Zealand

Player	Position	Union
Yohan Domenech	Scrum-half	France
Rory Kockott	Scrum-half	France
Ludovic Radosavljevic	Scrum-half	France
Julien Dumora	Fly-half	France
Yohan Le Bourhis	Fly-half	France
Benjamin Urdapilleta	Fly-half	Argentina
Thomas Combezou	Centre	France
Robert Ebersohn	Centre	South Africa
Afusipa Taumoepeau	Centre	Australia
Florian Viaelle	Centre	France
Armand Batlle	Wing	France
Julien Caminati	Wing	France
Kylian Jaminet	Wing	France
Taylor Paris	Wing	Canada
David Smith	Wing	Samoa
Pierre Bérard	Fullback	France
Geoffrey Palis	Fullback	France

Notable former players

References

↑ "Combien de fois Bayonne s’est imposé dans la capitale ?". www.rugbyrama.fr. Midi olympique. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
↑ "Finale Castres-Grenoble 93 : l’insupportable aveu de l’arbitre Salles". rugbyolympic.com. 12 December 2006. Archived from the original on 9 December 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
↑ "Daniel Salles à propos de Castres-Grenoble en 1993 : " Je me suis trompé "". sudouest. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
↑ "Parc des Princes, Paris, 5 Juin 1993". LNR. 28 December 2004. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
↑ "Castres et " la magie du rugby "". www.republicain-lorrain.fr. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
↑ "Pierre Fabre, founder of pharmaceutical giant, dies". Agence France Presse. France 24. 2013-07-20. Retrieved 2013-08-17.

External links

(in French) Castres Olympique Official website

Top 14
2017–18 Teams	Agen Bordeaux Brive Castres Clermont La Rochelle Lyon Montpellier Oyonnax Pau Racing Stade Français Toulon Toulouse
Early years	1892 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–00 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19
Interbellum era	1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39
World War II	1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45
Post-war years	1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60
1960–80	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80
1980–95	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
Professional era and Top 16	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05
Top 14	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Trophy	Bouclier de Brennus

European Rugby Champions Cup

Organised by European Professional Club Rugby
Formerly the "Heineken Cup", organised by European Rugby Cup

2017–18 teams

Heineken Cup
(1995–2014)

Seasons	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14
Pool stages	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14
Finals	1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

European Rugby
Champions Cup
(2014–present)

Seasons	2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Pool stages	2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Finals	2015 2016 2017 2018

Qualification play-off

Rugby union in France

Governing body

Fédération Française de Rugby

National teams

Men's	France A 7s France amateur U-20 U-18
Women's	Women's 7's

Competitions

International	World Cup Six Nations Rugby World Cup Sevens World Rugby Sevens Series Sevens Grand Prix Series
Professional clubs	European Rugby Champions Cup European Rugby Challenge Cup National Rugby League (France) Top 14 Pro D2 Fédérale 1 Fédérale 2 Fédérale 3 Challenge Yves du Manoir
Hosted events	2007 Rugby World Cup France Sevens France Women's Sevens

Castres – current squad
Forwards	Mathieu Babillot Alexandre Bias Yannick Caballero Rodrigo Capó Ortega Loïc Jacquet Anthony Jelonch Jody Jenneker Daniel Kötze Thibault Lassalle Mihai Lazăr Brice Mach Steve Mafi Victor Moreaux Yohan Montès Marc-Antoine Rallier Christophe Samson Eric Sione Tudor Stroë Antoine Tichit Alex Tulou Damien Tussac Maʻama Vaipulu
Backs	Horacio Agulla Pierre Bérard Julien Caminati Thomas Combezou Julien Dumora Antoine Dupont Robert Ebersohn Rémy Grosso Maxime Javaux Rory Kockott Geoffrey Palis Julien Seron David Smith Afusipa Taumoepeau Benjamín Urdapilleta Florian Vialelle
Coach	Christophe Urios

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Castres Olympique

History

Honours

Finals results

French championship

Current standings

Current squad

Notable former players

See also

References

External links