Full name | Stade Montois Rugby Pro | ||
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Nickname(s) | Les Abeilles (The Bees) | ||
Founded | 1908 | ||
Location | Mont-de-Marsan, France | ||
Ground(s) | Stade André et Guy Boniface (Capacity: 16,800) | ||
President | Philippe Cazaubon | ||
Coach(es) | David Auradou | ||
Captain(s) | Jérôme Dhien | ||
League(s) | Pro D2 | ||
2022–23 | 3rd (playoff semi-finalists) | ||
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Stade Montois Rugby is a French rugby union team that currently is playing in Pro D2, the second level of the country's professional league system.
They were founded in 1908 and play in yellow and black. They are based in Mont-de-Marsan, the capital of the Landes département , in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and play at the Stade Guy Boniface.
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), to FC Lourdes in 1953 (16-21), and to Racing Club de France in 1959 (3-8). Their finest hour came in 1963 in an all Landes-final against US 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.
It finished in the bottom table in the first-tier Top 14 in the 2008–09 season. They had just been promoted to the Top 14 after winning the Pro D2 promotion playoffs. They remained in Pro D2 for three seasons before successfully navigating the 2012 promotion playoffs.
Stade Montois' players include the Boniface brothers (André and Guy, who died in a car accident on 1 January 1968), Thomas Castaignède, Christian Darrouy, Benoît Dauga, Laurent Rodriguez. Former Leicester Tigers and Fiji scrum-half wizard Waisale Serevi also played for them as well as other notable Fijians such as Viliame Satala and Vilimoni Delasau.
Date | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Venue | Spectators |
22 May 1949 | Castres Olympique | Stade Montois | 14-3 | Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse | 23,000 |
17 May 1953 | FC Lourdes | Stade Montois | 21-16 | Stadium Municipal, Toulouse | 32,500 |
24 May 1959 | Racing Club de France | Stade Montois | 8-3 | Parc Lescure, Bordeaux | 31,098 |
2 June 1963 | Stade Montois | US Dax | 9-6 | Parc Lescure, Bordeaux | 39,000 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | B | Pts | |
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1 | Oyonnax (C, P) | 30 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 904 | 457 | +447 | 17 | 111 | Semi-final promotion playoff place |
2 | Grenoble | 30 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 672 | 588 | +84 | 8 | 87 [lower-alpha 1] | |
3 | Mont-de-Marsan | 30 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 764 | 649 | +115 | 10 | 86 | Quarter-final promotion playoff place |
4 | Nevers | 30 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 718 | 551 | +167 | 11 | 85 | |
5 | Vannes | 30 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 718 | 633 | +85 | 11 | 81 | |
6 | Agen | 30 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 653 | 583 | +70 | 15 | 77 | |
7 | Colomiers | 30 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 674 | 678 | −4 | 10 | 70 | |
8 | Provence | 30 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 652 | 638 | +14 | 9 | 69 | |
9 | Béziers | 30 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 700 | 716 | −16 | 11 | 65 | |
10 | Aurillac | 30 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 586 | 706 | −120 | 5 | 65 | |
11 | Biarritz | 30 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 690 | 699 | −9 | 8 | 60 | |
12 | Rouen | 30 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 594 | 767 | −173 | 6 | 58 | |
13 | Montauban | 30 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 678 | 784 | −106 | 6 | 54 [lower-alpha 1] | |
14 | Soyaux Angoulême | 30 | 11 | 0 | 19 | 569 | 697 | −128 | 8 | 52 | |
15 | Carcassonne (R) | 30 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 553 | 677 | −124 | 10 | 52 | Relegation to Nationale |
16 | Massy (R) | 30 | 7 | 0 | 23 | 499 | 801 | −302 | 5 | 33 |
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