CA Brive

CA Brive
Brive
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Full name Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin
Founded 1910
Location Brive-la-Gaillarde, France
Ground(s) Stade Amédée-Domenech (Capacity: 15,000)
President France Jean-Jacques Bertrand
Coach(es) France Ugo Mola
Captain(s) South Africa Antonie Claassen
League(s) Top 14
2010–11 12th
1st kit
2nd kit
3rd kit
Official website
www.cabrive-rugby.com/

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 (capacity 15,000).

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History

The club was created on 15 March 1910 established on 12 October 1912. Before the Second World War, Brive changed from rugby union to rugby league but returned to union after the war.

It played regularly in the First Division, and established itself as the stronghold of rugby in Limousin but for many years its only title was a Second Division trophy won in 1957. Brive did not make it to the final of the First Division championship until 1965. On 23 May that year they met SU Agen at Stade de Gerland in Lyon only to lose 15–8. Brive next made it to the final in the 1972 season, where they faced AS Béziers on May 21 in Lyon again, and again the Black and White came out the losers, as Béziers won their second consecutive title (9–0). Brive met AS Béziers in the final again three season later, in 1975. By then, Béziers had become the unbeatable team of the decade, and they won their fifth title, this time by just one point (13–12), at Parc des Princes in Paris.

Brive experienced a resurgence in the middle of the 1990s, first in 1996, when they made their first finals appearance since the mid 1970s in Paris. Brive however went down 20–13 to Stade Toulousain. It was their fourth losing final. Only one club have lost more finals without winning one than them (US Dax 5). That year however, they won the famed Challenge Yves du Manoir, defeating Pau 12–6. The following season, they made it to the final of the Heineken Cup where they faced the Leicester Tigers from England at Cardiff Arms Park. Brive finally won a final, defeating the Tigers 28–9. So far, they are one of only two clubs to win the European Cup without ever winning the domestic championship, the other club being the Northampton Saints.

On 22 February 1997, Brive, as European champions, were pitted against Auckland Blues who had recently won the Super 12. The French team were no competition to an extra powerful Kiwi side which won easily 47–11.[1]. In 1998 Brive again reached the final of the Heineken Cup, this time against Bath. They came agonizingly close to capturing back-to-back titles, losing by just one point, 19–18 at Parc Lescure in Bordeaux.

Since then, however, the club has been in dire straits, as it was subjected to a punitive relegation to the second division in 2000 due to bad financial management. They bounced back two years later and have struggled ever since in the lower echelons of the league table, except in 2004 when they managed to qualify for the playoffs. In 2005, Brive went to the semi-finals of European Challenge Cup, but they lose against Pau. In 2009, after taking the sixth place of the Championship, the Black and White could participate to the Heineken Cup, but the competition was difficult for them, against the Europeans champions the Leinster, the Llanelli Scarlets and the London Irish.

Players past and present

Brive have bred some 30 players who went on to play for France. Among them, Amédée Domenech, nicknamed "Le Duc"" ("the Duke") who played there in the 50s and 60s, and gave his name to the stadium shortly after his death in 2003. Prolific flanker Olivier Magne, fly-half Christophe Lamaison or Alain Penaud , number-eight Jean-Luc Joinel and hooker Michel Yachvili, the father of Dimitri Yachvili, also wore the CAB jersey. Argentinian fly-half Lisandro Arbizu and powerful prop Christian Martin also played for them. Two French internationals are currently playing for Brive, fullback Alexis Palisson and Arnaud Méla. But the club has become home to many Pacific Islanders including the Fijian Norman Ligairi, the Samoa and Gloucester legend Terry Fanolua and Tongan Suka Hufanga. They recently signed Welsh International, Barry Davies from the Llanelli Scarlets and Andy Goode from the Leicester Tigers, and have also signed New Zealand-born England international Riki Flutey from London Wasps effective with the 2009–10 season.


Finals results

French championship

Date Winner Runner-up Score Stadium Spectators
23 May 1965 SU Agen CA Brive 15–8 Stade de Gerland, Lyon 28.758
21 May 1972 AS Béziers CA Brive 9–0 Stade de Gerland, Lyon 31.161
18 May 1975 AS Béziers CA Brive 13–12 Parc des Princes, Paris 39.991
1 June 1996 Stade Toulousain CA Brive 20–13 Parc des Princes, Paris 48.162

Challenge Yves du Manoir

Date Winner Runner-up Score Stadium Spectators
1 June 1963 Pau CA Brive 12-6 Stade Charléty, Paris 13.000
18 May 1974 RC Narbonne CA Brive 19–10 Stade Yves du Manoir, Colombes
27 January 1996 CA Brive SU Agen 11–0 Parc des Princes, Paris 13.000

Coupe de France

Date Winner Runner-up Score Stadium Spectators
1 June 2000 Biarritz Olympique CA Brive 24-13 Parc Lescure, Bordeaux

Heineken Cup

Date Winner Runner-Up Score Stadium Spectators
25 January 1997 CA Brive Leicester Tigers 28–9 Arms Park, Cardiff 41.664
31 January 1998 Bath Rugby CA Brive 19–18 Parc Lescure, Bordeaux 36.500

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under IRB eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-IRB nationality.

Player Position Union
Louis Acosta Hooker France France
Virgile Lacombe Hooker France France
Irakli Natriashvili Hooker Georgia (country) Georgia
Guillaume Ribes Hooker France France
Pat Barnard* Prop England England
Alexandre Barozzi Prop France France
Pierre Capdevielle Prop France France
Pablo Cardinali Prop Argentina Argentina
Pablo Henn Prop Argentina Argentina
Vasil Kakovin Prop Georgia (country) Georgia
Davit Khinchagishvili Prop Georgia (country) Georgia
Victor Laval Prop France France
Jefferson Poirot Prop France France
Olivier Caisso Lock France France
Thibault Dubarry Lock France France
Arnaud Méla Lock France France
Retief Uys Lock South Africa South Africa
Dimitri Vaotoa Lock France France
Simon Azoulai Flanker France France
Alexandre Bias Flanker France France
Vincent Forgues Flanker France France
Petrus Hauman Flanker South Africa South Africa
Poutasi Luafutu Flanker Australia Australia
Antonie Claassen (c) Number 8 South Africa South Africa
Julien Le Devedec Number 8 France France
Player Position Union
Mathieu Bélie Scrum-half France France
Agustín Figuerola Scrum-half Argentina Argentina
Jean-Baptiste Péjoine Scrum-half France France
Shane Geraghty Fly-half England England
Scott Spedding Fly-half South Africa South Africa
Ronnie Cooke Centre South Africa South Africa
Yann Fior Centre France France
Arnaud Mignardi Centre France France
Jamie Noon (vc) Centre England England
Mathias Atayi Wing France France
Jacques Boussuge Wing France France
Sevenaïa Galala Wing Fiji Fiji
Clément Marienval Wing France France
Guillaume Namy Wing France France
Julien Caminati Fullback France France
Nicolas Jeanjean Fullback France France

[2]

  • Named in the England squad for a number of games during spell at Northampton, therefore his status in terms of IRB nationalitity is english[3]

In for 2011/2012

Out for 2011/2012

Internationally capped players

Notable former players

French players

References

  1. ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970313/ai_n14099062
  2. ^ (French) "L'effectif du Cab – Saison 2009/2010". Official club homepage of CA Brive. http://www.cabrive-rugby.com/home.php?v_lang=FR&rub=2. 
  3. ^ "Voyce dropped from England elite". BBC. 2006-08-01. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/international/5234342.stm. Retrieved 2009-09-02. 

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