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Atlantique Stade Rochelais
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| Full name | Atlantique Stade Rochelais | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1898 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | La Rochelle, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Stade Marcel-Deflandre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President | Alain Autant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Serge Milhas and Frédéric Uthurry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Pro D2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | 8th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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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.
- League Cup (Challenge Yves-du-Manoir) 2002, 2003
- Quarter-finalist of the French Championship in 1961, 1962 and 1969
- 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.
- Arnaud Élissalde
- Jean-Pierre Élissalde
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| Federation: | Fédération Française de Rugby |
| National team: | France • France Sevens |
| International Competitions: | Rugby World Cup • Six Nations Championship • H Cup • European Challenge Cup • European Shield • Rugby World Cup Sevens • IRB Sevens World Series • Paris Sevens |
| Domestic Competitions: | Ligue Nationale de Rugby (Top 14 • Pro D2) • Fédérale 1 • Fédérale 2 • Fédérale 3 |
| Top 14 teams: | Agen • Albi • Bayonne • Biarritz • Bourgoin • Brive • Castres • Clermont • Montauban • Montpellier • Narbonne • Perpignan • Stade Français • Toulouse |
| Pro D2 teams: | Auch • Béziers • Bordeaux-Bègles • Colomiers • Dax • Gaillac • Grenoble • La Rochelle • Limoges • Lyon • Mont-de-Marsan • Oyonnax • Pau • Racing Paris • Tarbes • Toulon |
| See also: | List of clubs |