AS Carcassonne
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| Full name | Association Sportive de Carcassonne XIII |
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| Nickname(s) | Canaries | |
| Website | Official site | |
| Founded | 1938 | |
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| CEO | Jean Guilhem Nathalie Bardou | |
| Chairman | Jerome Escourrou | |
| Coach | Patrick Alberola | |
| Manager | Jean-Francois Albert | |
| Competition | Elite One Championship | |
| 2015/16 | 1st | |
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Association Sportive of Carcassonne are a semi-professional rugby league football club based in Carcassonne in the region of Occitanie in the south of France. They play in the French Elite One Championship and are one of the most successful clubs in French rugby league, having won a total of eleven French rugby league championship titles and thirteen Lord Derby Cups.
The club was founded in 1938 and to date has produced debatably the best ever French Rugby league footballer in Puig Aubert. The club plays its home matches at the Stade Albert Domec.
The club runs both youth teams and a ladies team
As early as 1899 rugby was introduced to the rich and well off in Carcassonne. The club reached the rugby championship final in 1925, then in 1930 along with 11 other clubs they broke away from the French Rugby union and began their own competition. With the creation of the French rugby league championship in 1934 several rugby league clubs began springing up throughout the France. It wasn't until May 1938 though that AS Carcassonne would join. Their debut season saw them finish 3rd before losing in the semi-finals to US Villeneuve. The following season they reached the cup semi-final, but before it could be played war broke out and the season was ended. The French Vichy government placed a ban of rugby league as of December 19, 1941. Certain people associated with Rugby union in France have been shown to have been responsible for these acts.
After the War AS Carcassonne returned to Rugby League under the direction of Paul Barriere. This saw several new players join the club, most notably nineteen-year-old Puig Aubert; this influx of players would signal both new ambition and success for the club who would go on to win five Championship titles over the next ten years coupled with four Lord Derby Cups.
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