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Top 14 · 2026-27

Stade Rochelais

4th in tableP 6 · W 4 · D 0 · L 2144–135 pts
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Next match

Sun 25 Oct
Top 14 · Round 7
Stade Rochelais
Bordeaux Bègles

Upcoming fixtures

Sat 31 Oct
Top 14 · Round 8
Stade Français Paris
Stade Rochelais
Sun 8 Nov
Top 14 · Round 9
Stade Rochelais
Aviron Bayonnais

Results

Sat 17 Oct
FT
Champions Cup · Round 1
Stade Rochelais31
Lions14
Sat 10 Oct
FT
Top 14 · Round 6
Lyon OU16
Stade Rochelais28
Sat 3 Oct
FT
Top 14 · Round 5
Stade Rochelais38
ASM Clermont13
Sat 26 Sept
FT
Top 14 · Round 4
Section Paloise39
Stade Rochelais17
Sat 19 Sept
FT
Top 14 · Round 3
Stade Rochelais10
Racing 9220
Sat 12 Sept
FT
Top 14 · Round 2
RC Toulon20
Stade Rochelais21
Sun 6 Sept
FT
Top 14 · Round 1
Stade Rochelais30
Stade Toulousain27

About Stade Rochelais

Stade Rochelais — Drawn in the club colours
Drawn in the club colours
Founded
1896
Home town
La Rochelle
Ground
Stade Marcel-Deflandre
Colours
Website
staderochelais.com (opens in a new tab)

Honours

  • European Cup (Heineken / Champions Cup) · 2

    2022, 2023

Notable players and coaches

  • Laurent Bidart — The club's first France international, capped against Wales in 1953
  • Arnaud Élissalde — Player-coach who from 1954 built the club's youth coaching; co-founded its 'Allez Stade' newspaper (1958)
  • Uini Atonio — Prop capped by France; spent most of his career at La Rochelle
  • Grégory Alldritt — Number 8; France international
  • Will Skelton — Lock; Australia international
  • Ronan O'Gara — Ireland fly-half great; coach of the 2022 and 2023 Champions Cup wins

History

Stade Rochelais was founded on 8 April 1896 as an athletics society (officially recognised in 1898); its rugby section played its first official match in December 1902. Mergers carried it through the lean 1930s and the war, and it became Stade Rochelais again in 1948. Its ground at Port-Neuf, opened in 1926, was renamed in 1947 after Marcel Deflandre, president from 1941, a Resistance member executed in 1944. With Vincent Merling as president from 1991, the club opened an academy (1996), reached the Top 14 by beating Lyon in the 2010 Pro D2 final and has stayed there since 2014. After losing the 2021 European and French finals to Toulouse, it beat Leinster in the Champions Cup finals of 2022, in Marseille, and 2023, in Dublin, after trailing 17–0.

Sources: staderochelais.com · staderochelais.com (2) · staderochelais.com (3) · staderochelais.com (4) · en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)

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