Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby

Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby is a rugby union team from the French city of Tarbes in the Hautes -Pyrenees. It is represented in the second highest league Pro D2 and carries their home games at the Stade Maurice- Trélut from. It was founded in August 2000, when Stadoceste Tarbes and CA Lannemezan banded together to form a common professional team.

History

Many rugby clubs in the region of Bigorre were in the past, celebrate successes, but none was financially strong enough to survive in the new era of long-term professional in the top two leagues can. Stadoceste Tarbes, the biggest club and two-time champion of France, as well as the FC Lourdes ( eight -time champion ) and Stade Bagnerais ( twice championship finalist ), in the late 1990s played in amateur leagues.

End of the season 1999/2000 CA Lannemezan would, however, be promoted to the second professional league Rugby Pro D2 purely athletic. However, the body responsible for organizing the Ligue Nationale de Rugby prevented the rise, as they feared, a club from a town with just 6,000 inhabitants could never survive economically in the professional league. Stadoceste Tarbes, the just the second amateur league ( Fédérale 2) had risen, offered to CA Lannemezan together to form a professional team that should be capable of medium to rise into the top 14. The towns of Tarbes and Lannemezan are approximately 35 kilometers apart.

The government of the department of Hautes -Pyrénées welcomed this proposal as it was anyway not willing to support more than one team. The FC and Stade Bagnerais Lourdes was offered the opportunity to also participate in the new team, but these associations declined. The Management Board of CA Lannemezan initially refused as well, but the club president prevailed.

In August 2000, the team was founded Lannemezan Tarbes Hautes -Pyrenees, CA Lannemezan replaced in the Rugby Pro D2. But soon after, the partnership was shattered. All games were held in Tarbes and in Lannemezan you felt increasingly betrayed. A little later it was renamed in Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby, which led to the final break with Lannemezan 2003. CA Lannemezan began in the Féderale 3 again from the beginning and has now advanced to the Pro D2.