The Paris Université Club (PUC) is a French
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
club based in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
. As of the 2024/25 season, they play in the
Fédérale 2
Fédérale 2 is a rugby union club championship division in France. It is the sixth division of rugby above Fédérale 3. Teams can earn promotion to Fédérale 1, and subsequently, to the National 2 and Nationale leagues, and on to the profes ...
- the sixth division of French rugby.
It is the rugby section of the
omnisport club (
PUC).
They were recently relegated from the
Fédérale 1
The championnat de France de rugby à XV de 1re division fédérale (), a.k.a. Fédérale 1 (), is a French rugby union club competition, it is the elite of amateur rugby in France. The competition has been organised by the Fédération Français ...
.
Palmarès
* Semifinal in
1954–55 French Rugby Union Championship and
1957–58 French Rugby Union Championship.
* Season 2011/12: First of its pool in Fèderal 3, promoted to Federale 2.
* 2011 : relegated in Fédérale 3
* 2004 : champion of Fédérale 2
* 1996 : champion of 2nd XV championship
* 1987 : champion Junior (Crabos)
* 1986 : champion of 2nd XV championship
* 1983 : Finalist, first division (group B)
* 1979 : champion Junior (Reichel)
* 1969 : champion of 2nd division
* 1966 : champion of 2nd XV championship
Famous players
* Éric Alabarbe
*
David Aucagne
* Roger Blachon
*
Antoine Burban
*
Wesley Fofana
* André Fremaux
*
Arthur Gomes
*
Jean-François Gourdon
* Claude Haget
*
André Haget
* Eddy Joliveau
* Gérard Krotoff
*
Ewen McKenzie
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* Donald Mac Donald
*
Graham Mourie
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*
Andy Mulligan
*
Nicolas Nadau
* Christian Orditz
* Max Starkey
*
Chris Ralston
*
Andy Ripley
* Neil Rogers
*
Guy Stener
* Ronnie Thompson
* John Wilcox
*
Dimitri Yachvili
Dimitri Yachvili Markarian (born 19 September 1980) is a French former rugby union footballer who played as a scrum-half for Biarritz and France. He played for France from 2002 to 2012, earning 61 caps and scoring 373 points. With them he playe ...
* Stephen Parez
Former coaches
* Clément Dupont
* René Deleplace
* Guy Boniface
* Robert Antonin
* André Haget
* André Siné
* Guy Malvezin
* Jacques Dury
*
Daniel Herrero
*
Vincent Moscato
*
Xavier Blond
* Frédéric Saint-SardoS
See also
*
Paris Université Club (baseball)
References
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Rugby union clubs in France
Rugby union clubs in Paris
Rugby clubs established in 1906
1906 establishments in France