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- Founded
- 1906
- Home town
- Castres
- Ground
- Stade Pierre-Fabre
- Colours
- Website
- castres-olympique.com (opens in a new tab)
Honours
French champions · 5
1949, 1950, 1993, 2013, 2018
Notable players and coaches
- Eugène Agert — First president in 1906, aged 27; director of the Dames de France store in town
- Jean Matheu — International whose arrival in 1946-47 drove the rise to the 'three glorious years' of 1948–50
- Jean Pierre-Antoine — Lock in the 1949 and 1950 title sides, twice voted best player of the championship; from Gaillac; the ground carried his name until 2017
- Pierre Fabre — Founder of the Pierre Fabre laboratories; the club's backer from the late 1980s until his death in 2013; the ground has carried his name since 2017
- Pierre-Yves Revol — Named president by Pierre Fabre at the end of the 1980s and still in office in 2026: French titles in 1993, 2013 and 2018
- Francis Rui — Legendary long-serving captain; since his death in 2001 a stand at the ground bears his name
- Laurent Labit & Laurent Travers — Coaching duo from 2009 to 2013, ending with the 2013 title against Toulon
- Christophe Urios — Coach from June 2015; won the 2018 title, beating Montpellier 29–13 at the Stade de France
History
Castres Olympique was founded in 1906 by former pupils of the town's collège, meeting at the Café Holmière; its first president, Eugène Agert, was 27. From the 1920s it played at the Stade Olympique in the Bisséous district. Its 'three glorious years' began with the Coupe de France in 1948 and continued with French titles in 1949, against Mont-de-Marsan, and 1950, against Racing, led by the lock Jean Pierre-Antoine; the ground took his name after his sudden death in 1956. In Group B in the late 1980s, the club turned to Pierre Fabre, founder of the Pierre Fabre laboratories, who named Pierre-Yves Revol president: Castres won Group B in 1989 and the French title in 1993, against Grenoble, and has stayed in the top flight ever since. It lost the 1995 final to Toulouse and the Challenge Cup finals of 1997 and 2000, then beat Toulon 19–14 in the 2013 final and Montpellier 29–13 in 2018; the finals of 2014 and 2022 were lost. Since 2017 the ground has been called Stade Pierre-Fabre.
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