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List Of Top 14 Foreign Players
This is a list of foreign players in Top 14, a rugby union club competition that is played in France. {, class="wikitable sortable" , - ! Players !! Nationality !! Teams , - , Heini Adams , , , , Union Bordeaux-Bègles , - , Viliamu Afatia , , , , SU Agen , - , Belisario Agulla , , , , SU Agen , - , Manu Ahotaeiloa , , , , Stade Toulousain, SU Agen, Aviron Bayonnais , - , Patricio Albacete , , , , US Colomiers, Section Paloise, Stade Toulousain , - , Tommaso Allan , , , , USA Perpignan , - , Delon Armitage , , , , RC Toulon , - , Steffon Armitage , , , , RC Toulon , - , Karlen Asieshvili , , , , CA Brive , - , Beñat Auzqui , , , , Union Bordeaux-Bègles , - , Ole Avei , , , , Union Bordeaux-Bègles , - , Miguel Avramovic , , , , US Montauban, SU Agen , - , Seremaia Bai , , , , ASM Clermont, Castres Olympique , - , Malakai Bakaniceva , , , , CA Brive , - , Iain Balshaw , , , , Biarritz Olympique , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top 14
The Top 14 () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the French National Rugby League, also known by its French initialism of LNR. There is promotion and relegation between the Top 14 and the next level down, the Rugby Pro D2. The fourteen best rugby teams in France participate in the competition, hence the name Top 14. The competition was previously known as the Top 16. The league is one of the three major professional leagues in Europe (along with the English Premiership and the United Rugby Championship, which brings together top clubs from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Italy and South Africa), from which the most successful European teams go forward to compete in the European Rugby Champions Cup, the pan-European championship which replaced the Heineken Cup after the 2013–14 season. The first ever final took place in 1892, between two Paris-based sides, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffon Armitage
Steffon Armitage (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional rugby union player who currently plays for French club Stade Niçois. Early life and career Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago in 1985, Armitage grew up in the south of France, where he and his brothers played for Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing. Armitage began his professional rugby career at Saracens, before signing for London Irish in 2006. Armitage started for London Irish in the 2009 Premiership final against Leicester Tigers, which the Tigers won 10–9. At international level, Armitage was a member of the England Saxons squad that won the 2008 Churchill Cup. On 1 July 2008 he was selected to represent the England Saxons again. Armitage was called up for the England elite squad ahead of the 2009 Six Nations Championship to replace the injured Lewis Moody, making his full international debut in England's 36–11 win against Italy in the opening game. He started both matches in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Bancroft (rugby Union)
Aaron Bancroft (born 1 January 1985) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He generally played as a centre but could also cover the wing position. Bancroft last played for US Carcassonne in the Pro D2 after earlier being with Grenoble. He formerly notably played for Northland in the National Provincial Championship and also the Crusaders and Highlanders in the Super 14. Rugby career Bancroft transferred to Otago from Canterbury after one game in the Air New Zealand Cup in 2006. He then played for the Highlanders, impressing in his midfield role for both Otago and the Highlanders in 2007. For the 2009 Super 14 season, Bancroft was part of the Highlanders' Wider Training Group, although not the main squad. Bancroft signed a deal to play for Northland in the 2010 and 2011 ITM Cup which saw him line up alongside the likes of All Black Rene Ranger, Jared Payne and Bronson Murray. He was then included in the Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biarritz Olympique
Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (; ), usually known simply as Biarritz, is a French professional rugby union team based in the Basque city of Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine which competes in the Pro D2, the second division of French rugby. Biarritz plays its home matches at the Parc des Sports Aguiléra, which is a multi-use stadium in Biarritz and which has a capacity of around 13,500 people, though for games that need a larger capacity, Biarritz may play at the Estadio Anoeta in San Sebastián. Biarritz play in red and white colours. Biarritz won a number of major honors, including the French championship on five occasions. Biarritz Olympique was formed in 1913 through a merger of the Biarritz Stade and Biarritz Sporting Club rugby teams. Biarritz made their way to the final of the French championship for the first time in the 1934 season where they were defeated by Bayonne. The following season they claimed their first championship, defeating Perpignan in the final. That decade Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Balshaw
Iain Robert Balshaw, MBE (born 18 April 1979) is an English former rugby union player who played on the wing or at full back for Bath, Leeds Carnegie, Gloucester and Biarritz Olympique. He won 35 international caps for England between 2000 and 2008, and three for the British & Irish Lions in 2001. He was a member of the England squad that won the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Early life Born 18 April 1979 in Blackburn, England, Balshaw was educated at the Jesuit Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. Club career Bath At junior level he played for Preston Grasshoppers and joined Bath as a teenager in 1997. He made his senior debut in 1998, scoring thirteen tries in his first season. Leeds Carnegie After Balshaw's move to Leeds in July 2004, his game at club level flourished. Balshaw was out of action for the beginning of the season with a groin injury, but after three months of work with the Leeds medical staff he was back to fitness. He made his debut off the bench in the Tykes fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malakai Bakaniceva
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Castres Olympique
Castres Olympique () is a French rugby union club located in the Occitanian city of Castres and is currently competing in the top level of the French league system. Founded in 1898, the club took its current name in 1906. They play at the Stade Pierre-Fabre, which is one of the smallest in Top 14 with a capacity of 12,500. The team wear blue and white kits. The team won five French top-division championships in 1949, 1950, 1993 (in a match decided by an irregular try accorded by the referee), 2013, and 2018 as well as one Coupe de France in 1948. History In 1898 several alumni of Castres' municipal college met in a city centre bar and decided to create a team allowing them to play their favourite sport, rugby union. For the first few years this team was part of a multisport club until 1906. Unhappy with the dominating position cycling had within the club, the members of the rugby section decided to leave and create a club of their own, solely dedicated to their sport. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASM Clermont
Association Sportive Montferrandaise Clermont Auvergne () is a French rugby union club from Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes that currently competes in Top 14, the top level of the French league system. Clermont are two times French champions in 2009-10 and 2016-17. The rugby section is a part of a multi-sport club called AS Montferrand (also known as ASM Omnisports), which was founded in 1911 and adopted that name in 1919. Although the rugby section changed its name to the current ASM Clermont Auvergne in 2004, it is still frequently referred to as Montferrand both within and outside France. The team play at the 19,022-seat Parc des Sports Marcel Michelin, also known by its nickname, The Bib Park. Clermont wear yellow and blue, the colours of the French tyre manufacturer Michelin, taken from the colours of Montferrand when the firm was created there in 1889. The city is where Marcel Michelin, the son of the founder of the French tyre manufacturer, decided to implem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seremaia Bai
Seremaia Baïkeinuku (born 4 January 1979) is a retired Fijian rugby union player who played most recently for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership, and represented Fiji at a National level. He plays at both Fly-half and Inside Centre. Career Seremaia Bai finished his career playing for Leicester Tigers after joining them in 2014. He previously played for Castres Olympique and ASM Clermont Auvergne who both compete in France's Top 14 competition. He also plays for the Fiji national team and the Pacific Islanders. He has played under-19s, under 21s and under 23s for the Fiji national side. Bai attended Lelean Memorial School in Nausori, Fiji. He made his international debut for Fiji in 2000 in a match against Japan which Fiji won 47–22. That year he was also capped against Samoa, the USA, Canada and Italy. In 2001 he was capped three times, twice against Tonga and once against Samoa. In the second match against Tonga he broke his ankle. In 2002 he joined Southland for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Montauban
US Montauban ( oc, Union Esportiva Montalban) is a French rugby union club that currently competes in Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the country's professional league system. They have also competed at the top level, Top 14, in the past, most recently between 2007 and 2010. The club is based in Montauban in the ''département of'' Tarn-et-Garonne in Occitania. In April 2010, it was announced the club would be relegated from the Top 14 to the Rugby Pro D2 at the end of the 2009/2010 season after breaking budget rules for the league. Although the club appealed the ruling it started to release players to reduce its budget. The club was not in the relegation zone at the time, thereby saving CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, Aviron Bayonnais and Montpellier Hérault RC a nervous run in as they were in the relegation battle with Montauban. On the 26 April 2010, the club filed for bankruptcy at a commercial court following a meeting of the club's board of directors. On 24 May 2014, it was announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Avramovic
Miguel Avramovic (born 18 July 1981 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rugby union footballer currently playing for Agen in the Top 14. He has also played for Worcester Warriors in the Premiership. He usually plays in at centre or fullback. He has 11 caps and 20 points (5 tries for Los Pumas. He had 11 caps for the Argentina national team, from 2005 to 2009. He made his international debut for Argentina in April 2005 in a match against Japan. He then played two games for Argentina A in June, against the United States and a non-cap England XV. He earned another full two caps that year playing against Canada in July, and against Samoa in December. He played against Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ... in July 2006 in what was a 2007 Rugby World Cup qualify ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Avei
Ole Avei (born 13 June 1983 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a Samoan International Rugby Union player, currently playing hooker with Soyaux-Angouleme in the French Pro D2. Avei began his professional career in 2005 with the Queensland Reds, making his first Super 14 debut in 2006, against the Chiefs in Hamilton. He then went on to play for Waikato in the Air New Zealand Cup in 2008, and in 2010, he signed in France with the Union Bordeaux Bègles for 2 years, extending his contract for a rare 5-year deal over offers from several top clubs, including current champions Stade Toulousain (Toulouse). Avei made his International debut for Samoa in the 2011 Pacific Nations Cup, in the match against Japan on 2 July 2011. He was then selected to represent Samoa in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Clubs * 2005–08: Queensland Reds (Super 14) * 2008–10: Waikato (NPC), Chiefs (WTG) * 2010- Nov 2017: Union Bordeaux Begles (Pro D2 and Top 14) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
