Stade Bordelais (football)
Stade Bordelais is a polysportiver club from the French city of Bordeaux in the Gironde department. The first team of the Division Rugby Union merged in March 2006 to that of Bordeaux - Begles CA Gironde to the team Union Bordeaux Begles. The junior teams are not affected by this action and continue to exist independently. The rugby team was seven times champion of France. The other departments of the organization are athletics, BMX, Bridge, football, petanque, and tennis.
Rugby
History
The club was founded on July 18, 1889, was one of the first outside the capital, who joined the federation USFSA. Soon after, they also played rugby and 1895 carried the prominent club member Pierre de Coubertin instrumental in Stade Bordelais that was able to purchase a large site in the suburb of Le Bouscat, on which now houses the Stade Sainte- Germaine is. After a short-lasting fusion with a sports club of the University at the beginning of the 20th century, the club was called Stade Bordelais Université over several decades club.
In 1899 it was the first time allows teams from the province to participate in the French rugby championship and Stade Bordelais established himself at once at the top. With one exception, the team was represented until 1911 in all championship finals and won seven times the champion title. Especially great was the rivalry with Stade Français Paris. After 1911, the series of successes and Stade Bordelais crack could never build on the successes of the early 20th century.
In March 2006, Stade Bordelais was playing in the second highest league Pro D2, there was a merger of the first team with that of rivals Bordeaux - Begles CA Gironde. The aim was to build three years earlier after the bankruptcy of CABBG a team that should make the leap to the highest league Top 14.
Achievements
- Champion: 1899, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911
- Cup finalist: 1900, 1901, 1902, 1908, 1910
- Finalist Coupe de France: 1943, 1944
Championship finals of Stade Bordelais
Known player
- Eugène Billac
- Maurice Boyau
- Bernard Laporte
- Pascal Laporte
- Maurice Leuvielle
- Alphonse Massé
- Vincent Moscato
Football
Until the introduction of professionalism (1932 ) Stade Bordelais UC was also in football among the more successful clubs in France, although he, at least after the First World War, even in Bordeaux rarely more than the " second fiddle " (one by one behind VGA du Médoc, SC La Bastidienne CD and Girondins Español ) played.
At the national championships of the USFSA Stade reached as a regional champion of the Southwest in 1903 the quarterfinals. From 1908 to 1914, and again in 1919 the club was represented in it annually, and he always came up in 1908 in the round of the last eight teams of France, in 1909 and 1910, even to the semifinals; there ended in both years Helvétique Marseille Stade further hopes of Bordeaux. With René Petit Stade also brought forth a national team, in 1920 two international matches played, before and after, however, in Spain ( for Real Madrid and Real Unión Irun ) was active.
From 1917/18 bis 1932/33, the team also lacked only two seasons in the national final rounds of the French Cup. 1920, 1924 and 1925 reached SBUC it even each round of the top 16 teams. After the Second World War in 1948 with the entry into the Cup main round in which retired the team against local rivals Girondins, and then not again until 2013, when the now - as well as 2013/14 - fourth-rate Stade Bordelais pushed forward even among the last 32 teams.