While in recent times, RC Toulon hasn’t been having the hottest run in Top 14 rugby, they still remain one of the fiercest forces in French rugby. RC Toulon has won three Heineken Cups; all three of them coming in the last ten years. RC Toulon also won the French title four times and finished second-best nine times.

Popularly known as USA Perpignan, Union Sportive Arlequins Perpignanais is a French rugby union club. Founded in 1902 as AS Perpignan, it was later renamed US Perpignan in 1919. In 1933 the club adopted the name USA Perpignan after a merger with another club in Perpignan. The club derived the colors for its original red and gold logo from the Catalan flag.

After spending nearly a decade in second-tier exile, Section Paloise has returned to top division French rugby. The club has been a mainstay in Top 14 since 2015, but nowhere near the highs they hit in their golden age. The three-time French champions hail from the city of Pau in France’s southwestern province of Béarn, where they are seen as cultural icons.

With 14 domestic league titles under their belt, Stade Français Paris are one of the powerhouses in French union rugby. Like most other Top 14 clubs, They have come to their current iteration following a merger of several clubs. Surprisingly, the merger happened more than a century after the club was established!

Born June 14, 1986 and measuring 1m95 (6’4), the Samoan second row Utu Junior Maninoa arrived to Stado Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby last season from the Union Sportive Montalbanaise, a French rugby union club that currently competes in Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the country’s professional league system.

Colomiers Rugby est un club français de rugby à XV qui a été fondé pendant la première guerre mondiale en 1915. Jusqu’à un changement de nom en 2008, Colomiers Rugby était connu sous le nom d’Union Sportive Colomiers (US Colomiers).

CSBJ Rugby Highlights and History. Club Sportif Bourgoin-Jallieu Rugby, aka CSBJ Rugby, is a former D1 Championship Group B champion. The club also has three second-division titles and a European Challenge trophy in its trophy cabinet.

RC Aubenas Vals History and Highlights. Rugby Club Aubenas Vals marked the regenesis of rugby in the region of Aubenas. When Auguste Martin and Albert Durand established the club in 1966, there was no active rugby union club that bore the flag of Aubenas. However, RC Aubenas Vals doesn’t only represent Aubenas; it’s also a representative of the commune of Vals-les-Bains.

Colomiers Rugby is a French rugby union club that was first founded during the First World War in 1915. Until a 2008 name change, Colomiers Rugby was known as Union Sportive Colomiers (US Colomiers).

Le Football Club de Grenoble Rugby est un club de rugby à XV qui a connu de nombreux succès dans les ligues françaises et a été impliqué dans l’une des décisions les plus controversées jamais prises dans ce sport.

Le Rugby Club Vannes est une équipe française de rugby à XV qui, jusqu’en 2015, jouait en Fédérale 1, la troisième division française. Cependant, l’équipe de Vannes a été promue lors de la saison 2014-15, 65 ans après sa création, et s’est retrouvée en Pro D2, la deuxième division professionnelle française.

US Montauban Histoire et faits marquants. De la victoire en division Elite à la relégation au niveau amateur, les fans de l’Union Sportive Montauban ont tout vu. Le club a connu de nombreux hauts et bas dans son histoire, mais ces dernières années, il a failli revenir en première division à plusieurs reprises.

CSBJ Rugby Faits marquants et histoire. Le Club Sportif Bourgoin-Jallieu Rugby, alias CSBJ Rugby, est un ancien champion du groupe B du championnat de D1. Le club compte également trois titres de deuxième division et un trophée de Challenge européen dans son armoire à trophées.

Pro D2 club Union Sportive Carcassonne emerged as a cultural phenomenon in the region of Aude in its early days. The club began to give the rugby-crazy populace of Carcassonne a sense of identity in the thriving rugby scene of early 1900s France.

RC Massy Essonne is one of the French rugby clubs which will make the jump to Pro D2 from the Nationale division in the 22/23 season. The reigning National champions will be hoping to draw inspiration from their recent success and turn heads in the French second tier next season.

Rouen Normandie est l’héritier du Racing Club de Rouen, la première équipe de rugby à XV à représenter Rouen. Le club a émergé des cendres laissées par le Racing Club de Rouen, qui a dû mettre fin à son aventure de 89 ans pour cause d’insolvabilité.

Sporting Club Albigeois Hightlights and History. Sporting Club Albigeois officially came into existence in 1906, but its roots date back to 1901. A group of school students and soldiers formed Stade Albigeois as the fourth rugby club in the entire department of Tarn. With the inclusion of football, tennis, and athletics five years later, the club became the multisports organization it is today.

Blagnac Rugby‘s story goes back as far as 1922. Since the turn of the century, rugby has been popular in the southwestern region of France. In Blagnac, young men used to play rugby for amusement, but it was not an organized sporting activity. That changed when the Blagnac Sporting Club was founded.

Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne, better known as Stade Aurillacois, is a club with military roots. It has repeatedly shown its soldier-like fighting mentality to return to the highest levels of French rugby. It has recently been a regular in Pro D2 in recent years, having missed out on a spot in the division only once since 2001.

Le Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne, plus connu sous le nom de Stade Aurillacois, est un club aux racines militaires. Il a montré à plusieurs reprises sa mentalité de combattant pour revenir au plus haut niveau du rugby français.

Stade Dijonnais History and Highlights. Stade Dijonnais is a French rugby club competing in the Nationale competition. After a disastrous 2021-22 season resulted in relegation from the first division, it will be competing in the second division of this competition.

RC Massy Essonne faits marquants et histoire. Le RC Massy Essonne fait partie des clubs de rugby français qui passeront de la division nationale à la Pro-D2 lors de la saison 22/23. Le champion de Nationale en titre espère s’inspirer de ses récents succès et faire tourner les têtes en deuxième division française la saison prochaine.

Oyonnax Rugby, formerly known as Union Sportive Oyonnax Rugby until 2018, is a French rugby union club formed 113 years ago in 1909. It started out plying its trade in the regional leagues until gaining promotion in 1967.

Soyaux Angoulême XV Charente History and Highlights. Soyaux Angoulême XV Charente, more popularly known as SAXV, wa s formed in 2010 when Sporting Club d’Angoulême and Rugby Club de Soyaux decided to merge. SAXV quickly broke into the Pro D2, but now it has fallen back to the Nationale division.

Oyonnax Rugby, anciennement connu sous le nom d’Union Sportive Oyonnax Rugby jusqu’en 2018, est un club français de rugby à XV formé il y a 113 ans en 1909. Il a commencé par jouer dans les ligues régionales jusqu’à ce qu’il obtienne une promotion en 1967.

US Carcassonne Faits marquants et histoire. L’Union Sportive Carcassonne, club de Pro D2, est apparue comme un phénomène culturel dans la région de l’Aude à ses débuts. Le club a commencé à donner à la population de Carcassonne, passionnée de rugby, un sentiment d’identité dans le milieu florissant du rugby en France au début des années 1900.

Stade Dijonnais Histoire et faits marquants. Le Stade Dijonnais est un club de rugby français qui évolue en Nationale. Après une saison 2021-22 désastreuse ayant entraîné la relégation de la première division, il évoluera en deuxième division de cette compétition.

The Football Club de Grenoble is a rugby union club with a history of success in the French leagues and was involved in one of the most controversial decisions ever made in the sport. Founded over 130 years ago in 1892 in a merger between the main clubs in the area, Grenoble chose red and blue as its colors and has played at Stade des Alpes since the 2014-15 season.

Union Sportive Bressane Pays de l’Ain (USBPA), simply known as US Bressane, has a 120-year-long legacy to look back to. But, the club has mostly been playing amateur rugby in recent years. US Bressane climbed back to Pro D2 as recently as 2021/22, but it narrowly missed out on survival and dropped back to the National Rugby Union France Championship.