- Stade Montois
Rugby team
teamname = Mont-de-Marsan
fullname = Stade Montois Rugby Pro
location =Mont-de-Marsan ,France
country
founded = 1908
ground =Stade Guy Boniface
capacity =
president =Philippe Cazaubon
coach =Philippe Berot
league =Top 14
season = 2007-08 Pro D2
position = 3rd (promotion playoff winners)
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pattern_la2=|pattern_b2=|pattern_ra2=|leftarm2=FFFF00|body2=FFFF00|rightarm2=FFFF00|shorts2=000000|socks2=FFFF00Stade Montois is a French
rugby union team that will play the 2008-09 season in theTop 14 , the first level of the country's professional league system, after winning the 2007-08 promotion playoffs in the second-levelRugby Pro D2 .They were founded in 1908 and play in yellow and black. They are based in
Mont-de-Marsan , the capital of the Landes "département", inAquitaine , and play at theStade Guy Boniface .History
Stade Montois is a multi-sports club (28 sections) but its rugby team has always been its flagship. After winning a few regional titles between the two world wars, it reached the top of French club rugby four times in 15 years. It lost its first three French championship finals to
Castres Olympique in 1949 (3-14, in a replay, after the original final had ended in a 3-3 draw), toFC Lourdes in 1953 (16-21), and toRacing Club de France in 1959 (3-8). Their finest hour came in 1963 in an all Landes-final, a legendary derby which people still talk about, againstUS Dax won by the Yellow and Black 9-6. They had finally won one, whereas their Dax neighbours would lose all five finals they would play in…Although Stade Montois was never a truly dominant force in French rugby, it was famous for its spectacular attacking style of play and nursed some of France’s finest international players: the Boniface brothers (André and Guy, who died in a car accident on Jan. 1, 1968),
Thomas Castaignède ,Christian Darrouy ,Benoît Dauga ,Laurent Rodriguez . FormerLeicester Tigers and Fiji scrum-half wizardWaisale Serevi also played for them.Honors
* French championship::
** Champions: 1963
** Runners-up: 1949, 1953, 1959
*Challenge Yves du Manoir /Coupe de France:
** Champions: 1960, 1961, 1962
** Runners-up: 1958, 1966
*Rugby Pro D2 :
** Champions: 2002
** Promotion playoff winners: 2008
* Second Division (Groupe B):
** Champions: 1998Finals results
French championship
Pro D2 promotion playoffs
External links
* [http://www.stade-montois.org/?_section=rugby&PHPSESSID=48210a9187a25b8a31a73d5e8521d094 Official site]
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