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Stade Rochelais is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 club who compete in the Pro D2. They are often known simply as La Rochelle.

They were founded in 1898 and play at Stade Marcel-Deflandre (capacity 11,500 incl. 6,700 seated). They wear yellow and black. They are based in La Rochelle
La Rochelle
La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988...

 in the Charente-Maritime
Charente-Maritime
Charente-Maritime is a department on the west coast of France named after the Charente River.- History :Previously a part of Saintonge, Charente-Inférieure was one of the 83 original departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

 département of the Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes is an administrative region in central western France comprising four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. The regional capital is Poitiers.-Politics:The regional council is composed of 56 members...

 region.

Stadium

The stadium is named after Marcel Deflandre, who was the president of the club born of the fusion between the rugby league
Rugby league in France
Rugby league has been played in France since 1934. As with rugby union, the heartland of the game is the south of the country.During the Second World War, in association with the French rugby union, the sport was banned by the Vichy government, an act which the sport has struggled to recover from...

 and rugby union clubs during WWII in La Rochelle, after the Vichy government forced rugby

Honours

  • League Cup (Challenge Yves-du-Manoir) 2002, 2003
  • Quarter-finalist of the French Championship in 1961, 1962 and 1969

Current squad

In for 2010/2011

Seru Rabeni
Seru Rabeni
Ratu Seru Raveive Rabeni is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a centre or wing for Stade Rochelais....

 (from   Leeds Carnegie) Manoël Dall'Igna (from   Montpellier
Montpellier Hérault RC
Montpellier Hérault Rugby Club is a professional French rugby union, based in Montpellier the capital of Languedoc-Roussillon. The club competes in the top level of the French league system, in the Top 14. They originally played at Stade Sabathé but moved to the Stade Yves-du-Manoir in 2007...

) Quentin D'Aram de Valada (from   Toulouse
Stade Toulousain
Stade Toulousain, also referred to as Toulouse, is a French rugby union club from Toulouse in Midi-Pyrénées. Toulouse is one of the finest rugby clubs in Europe, having won the Heineken Cup four times – in 1996, 2003, 2005 and 2010. They were also runners-up in 2004 and 2008 against London Wasps...

) Jonathan Garcia (from   Brive
CA Brive
Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin is a French rugby union team founded in 1910 and based in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the département of Corrèze of the Limousin région . They wear black and white and play in the Stade Amédée-Domenech .- History :The club was created on 15 March 1910 established on...

) Benjamin Geledan (from   Biarritz Olympique
Biarritz Olympique
Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque is a French professional rugby union team based in the Basque city of Biarritz, Aquitaine which competes in the Top 14 and the Heineken Cup...

) Romain Sazy (from   Montauban
US Montauban
US Montauban were a French rugby union club, which competed in the Top 14 competition between 2007 and 2010, after being promoted from Rugby Pro D2 for the 2006-07 season...

) Petrişor Toderasc
Petrişor Toderasc
Petrişor Toderasc is a Romanian rugby union footballer. He plays as a prop.Toderasc plays currently for CA Brive, in France....

 (from   Brive
CA Brive
Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin is a French rugby union team founded in 1910 and based in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the département of Corrèze of the Limousin région . They wear black and white and play in the Stade Amédée-Domenech .- History :The club was created on 15 March 1910 established on...

) Greg Goosen (from   Racing Métro) Sefulu Gaugau (from   Racing Métro)

Out for 2010/2011

Jerry-Lee Bernard (to   Niort
Stade Niortais
Stade Niortais Rugby is a rugby team based in the city of Niort in the Deux-Sèvres département in the poitou-charentes region...

) Camille Canivet - Released Mathieu De Pauw (to   Auch
FC Auch Gers
Football Club Auch Gers is a French rugby union club based in Auch in Midi-Pyrénées currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second tier of the country's professional league system. In recent years, they have bounced between the first-level Top 14 and Pro D2...

) Sébastien Morel
Sébastien Morel
Sébastien Morel, born 21 January 1981 in Vichy , is a French rugby union and sevens player who plays as a centre for Stade rochelais .- Career :* Until 2005 : ASM Clermont* Since 2005 : Stade rochelais- Club :...

 (to   Carcassonne
US Carcassonne
Union Sportive Carcassonnaise are a French rugby union club based in Carcassonne. US Carcassonne currently compete in the Pro D2 of French rugby. The club were established in 1899. They play in black and yellow colours and at the Stade Albert-Domec...

) Clément Praud (to   Nevers) Baptiste Sapparart - Released

In for 2011/2012

Sebastien Fauqué
Sébastien Fauque
Sébastien Fauqué is a French rugby union player, born 6 March 1977 in Tarbes , who plays as fly half for Aviron Bayonnais.He arrived at US Montauban from US Dax after a spell at Castres Olympique and a first professional contract at Section Paloise. He was the backup for David Aucagne at Pau and...

 (from   Bayonne
Aviron Bayonnais
Aviron Bayonnais is a French rugby union club from Bayonne in Pyrénées-Atlantiques that currently competes in the top level of the French league system, in the Top 14 competition...

) Alfie To'ala (from   Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

)

Out for 2011/2012

Jonathan Garcia (to   Agen) Rémi Talès (to   Castres
Castres Olympique
Castres Olympique is a French rugby union club located in the Midi-Pyrénées city of Castres and currently competing in the top level of the French league system.Founded in 1898, the club took its current name in 1906...

) Thomas Combezou (to   Montpellier) Romain Frou (to   Toulon) Nicolas Brindel (to   Périgueux
CA Périgueux
Club Athlétique Périgueux Dordogne is a French rugby union club that currently competes in the second division of French club rugby, the Pro D2 competition. Périgueux played in the higher divisions in the early 2000s but were relegated from Rugby Pro D2 after the 2004-05 season...

) Norman Ligaïri
Norman Ligairi
Norman Armstrong Senibici Ligairi is a Fijian rugby union player who usually plays as a fullback. He represents Fiji at international level in both the 15-a-side and 7-a-side game...

 (end of his career)

Famous players

  • Arnaud Élissalde
  • Jean-Baptiste Élissalde
    Jean-Baptiste Élissalde
    Jean-Baptiste Élissalde is a former French rugby union player, playing either as a scrum-half or as a fly-half, and current backs coach of the Stade Toulousain.-Early life:...

  • Jean-Pierre Élissalde
    Jean-Pierre Elissalde
    Jean-Pierre Élissalde is a French rugby union former player and a current coach.A native of La Rochelle, a seaport city on the Bay of Biscay, Jean-Pierre Élissalde played, at scrum half, five times for France in 1980 and 1981...



Arnaud, then his son Jean-Pierre and his grandson Jean-Baptiste all played for La Rochelle as scrum-halfs.
  • Gérald Merceron
    Gérald Merceron
    Gérald Merceron is a French former rugby union player who won 32 caps playing at fly-half for the French rugby union side...

  • Julien Pierre
    Julien Pierre
    Julien Pierre is a French rugby union player for Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14. He plays as a lock.He won his first cap on France's 2007 tour of New Zealand. He previously played for Bourgoin and La Rochelle.-External links: *...

  • Seru Rabeni
    Seru Rabeni
    Ratu Seru Raveive Rabeni is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a centre or wing for Stade Rochelais....

  • Norman Ligaïri
    Norman Ligairi
    Norman Armstrong Senibici Ligairi is a Fijian rugby union player who usually plays as a fullback. He represents Fiji at international level in both the 15-a-side and 7-a-side game...


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