Coupe Falcou

Coupe Falcou
Coupe Falcou
Sport rugby league
Founded 1937
Country(ies)  France
Official website FFR XIII

The Coupe Falcou is an annual knock-out competition organised by the Fédération Française de Rugby à XIII for amateur rugby league clubs.

History

Introduced in 1937 the competition was originally known as the French Amateur Cup. The inaugural winners were the short-lived La Rochelle club (during WW2 the club were forced to merge with the town's rugby union club, Atlantique Stade Rochelais, by the Vichy Government of the time).

When rugby league was legalised again at the end of the war the cup was re-instituted as the National Cup and was played between the years 1945 and 1962. Two now defunct clubs dominated the post war years; Facture from near Bordeaux in the Gironde won the cup five times and Lavardac from Aquitaine, who folded in the eighties, won it on four occasions.

The cup was not played for in the years 1963 to 1976.

Relaunched in 1977 for amateur clubs the cup was known as the French Federal Cup. From 1992 the competing clubs have vied for the Coupe Falcou, named in memory of Albert Falcou (1911–1990) who devoted his life to the cause of rugby league.

Since 1977 the cup has been won by no less than nineteen different clubs.

Past winners

French Amateur Cup

  • 1937 : La Rochelle
  • 1938 : Arcachon
  • 1939 : Saint-Gaudens

National Cup

  • 1945 : Orange
  • 1946 : Orange
  • 1947 : Figeac
  • 1948 : Carpentras
  • 1949 : Arachon
  • 1950 : Lavardac
  • 1951 : Lavardac
  • 1952 : Lavardac
  • 1953 : Lavardac
  • 1954 : La Réole
  • 1955 : Facture
  • 1956 : Limoux
  • 1957 : Facture
  • 1958 : Facture
  • 1959 : Miramont
  • 1960 : Facture
  • 1961 : Saint-Gaudens
  • 1962 : Facture

Federal Cup

  • 1977 : La Réole
  • 1978 : Not Played
  • 1979 : EBT Montpellier
  • 1980 : Clairac
  • 1981 : ASPET
  • 1982 : Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salle
  • 1983 : Apt
  • 1984 : Palau
  • 1985 : Not Played
  • 1986 : Lescure
  • 1987 : Sainte-Livrade
  • 1988 : La Réole
  • 1989 : Le Pontet
  • 1990 : Tonneins
  • 1991 : Lescure

Coupe Falcou

  • 1992 : Cabestany
  • 1993 : Cabestany
  • 1994 : Sainte-Livrade
  • 1995 : GIFI Bias
  • 1996 : Saint-Cyprien
  • 1997 : Morières
  • 1998 : Castelnau
  • 1999 : Le Barcarès
  • 2000 : Sainte-Livrade
  • 2001 : Palau
  • 2002 : Sainte-Livrade
  • 2003 : GIFI Bias
  • 2004 : Salses
  • 2005 : Salses
  • 2006 : Baroudeurs de Pia
  • 2007 : Sauveterre de Comminges
  • 2008 : Baroudeurs de Pia

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