The Olympique Marcquois Rugby club is located in

Marcq-en-Barœul Marcq-en-Barœul (; pcd, Marke-in-Bareul; older nl, Marke) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is a suburb of the city of Lille, and is immediately adjacent to it on the northeast. It is ...

, France. It belongs to the county of

Nord (French department) Nord (; officially french: département du Nord; pcd, départémint dech Nord; nl, Noorderdepartement, ) is a department in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of ...

. The Club plays in the French rugby championship

Fédérale 1 Le championnat de France de première division fédérale, a.k.a. Fédérale 1, is a French rugby union club competition, the fifth highest level of amateur rugby. The competition has been organised by the Fédération Française de Rugby since 20 ...

(4th French division) since 2020.

History

Founded in 1971, the rugby section has been added to the multi-sports club, Olympique Marcquois. The club grew up quickly and join the upper regional league in 1973. It was promoted in the upper league, Fédérale 3, in 1993 for the first time and again in 2002.
In 2006, the club is promoted in the Fédérale 2 league and remains in the same league during 4 years.
For the season 2010-2011, the club is retrograded to Fédérale 3, and then to the Honneur division the next year. In 2012, the club is champion of the County, and comes back to Fédérale 3 until the 2016's saison. In 2017 the club go back in Fédéral 2 until now.
The rugby school is a strength of the club which welcomes more than 350 youngsters from 7 years old to 15 years old.
OM Rugby is the first club in the County with more than 600 players and 60 volunteers. The Club is affiliated to the

Stade Toulousain Stade Toulousain () ( oc, Estadi Tolosenc), also referred to as Toulouse, is a professional rugby union club based in Toulouse, France. They compete in the Top 14, France's top division of rugby, and the European Rugby Champions Cup. Toulou ...

since 1999.

Tournaments

Every year, the OM Rugby Club organises * in April, an under 14 years old players tournament, called Gérard Labbe / Didier Cottenye. The winner is qualified for the " super challenge" tournament at Toulouse. * in May, the Guy Niquet tournament, dedicated to the rugby schools.

Famous players

The player from

Christopher Tolofua Christopher Tolofua (born 31 December 1993) is a French rugby union player who currently plays for Toulon. His regular playing position is Hooker. Club career Tolofua made his debut for Toulouse against Connacht in Hcup. He was called as a cover ...

played in the club when he was young and was trained until the season 2006-2007, when he left for Toulouse, at the age of 13.

External links

* {{in lang, fr}
club website
French rugby union clubs