Stade Rochelais
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| Full name | Stade Rochelais |
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| Nickname(s) | Les Corsaires ("The Privateers") Les Maritimes ("The Maritimes") |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Location | La Rochelle, France |
| Ground(s) | Stade Marcel-Deflandre (Capacity: 15,000) |
| President | Vincent Merling |
| Coach(es) |
Patrice Collazo Xavier Garbajosa |
| League(s) | Top 14 |
| 2015–16 | 9th |
| Official website | |
| www |
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Stade Rochelais is a French rugby union club who compete in the Top 14.
They were founded in 1898 and play at Stade Marcel-Deflandre (capacity 15 000). They wear yellow and black. They are based in La Rochelle in the Charente-Maritime département of the New Aquitaine region.
The stadium is named after Marcel Deflandre, who was the president of the club born of the fusion between the rugby league and rugby union clubs during World War II in La Rochelle, after the Vichy government banned the game of Rugby League and forced all of its assets to be handed to the French Rugby Union.
If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
2016-17 Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.
Arnaud, then his son Jean-Pierre and his grandson Jean-Baptiste all played for La Rochelle as scrum-halves.
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