Atlantique Stade Rochelais

Rugby team
teamname = La Rochelle


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fullname = Atlantique Stade Rochelais
location = La Rochelle, France
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founded = 1898
ground = Stade Marcel-Deflandre
capacity = 12,000
president = Alain Autant
coach = Serge Milhas and Frédéric Uthurry
league = Pro D2
season = 2006-07
position = 3rd
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Stade Rochelais is a French rugby union club currently competing in the second level of the French league system, (Pro D2).

They were founded in 1898 and play at Stade Marcel-Deflandre (capacity 12,000 incl. 6,700 seated). They wear yellow and black. They are based in La Rochelle in the Charente-Maritime "département" of the Poitou-Charentes region.

Trivia

The stadium is named after Marcel Deflandre, who was the president of the club born of the fusion between the rugby league and rugby union clubs during WWII in La Rochelle, after the Vichy government forced rugby league clubs to dissolve. He was a resistant and was arrested and shot by the Gestapo in January 1944 in Bordeaux.

Honours

* League Cup (Challenge Yves-du-Manoir) 2002, 2003
* Quarter-finalist of the French Championship in 1961, 1962 and 1969

Famous players

*Arnaud Élissalde
*Jean-Baptiste Élissalde
*Jean-Pierre Élissalde

Arnaud, then his son Jean-Pierre and his grandson Jean-Baptiste all played for La Rochelle as scrum-halfs.

Famous coaches

*Arnaud Élissalde
*Jean-Pierre Élissalde

External links

* [http://www.staderochelais.com/ Official site fr icon]