Stade Niçois is a French professional rugby club based in Nice, founded in 2012. It currently operates in
Pro D2, one division below the French professional
Top14.
History
The club was previously known as
Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing
Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing was a French rugby union club, which went into liquidation in June 2012. Nice was founded in 1912, as Racing Rugby Club de Nice. Nice was runner-up in the Top 14, national championship in the 1982-83 seaso ...
. However this club was liquated in 2012.
The new club Stade Niçois was formed for the season 2012–13. They play under new colours: red, white and black.
The club won promotion from
Fédérale 2 at the end of season 2017-18 and will play in
Fédérale 1 for season 2018–19.
Honours
*
French championship:
** Runners-up: 1983
*
Challenge Yves du Manoir:
** Champions: 1985
* Challenge de l'Espérance:
** Champions: 1974,1976
Finals results
French championship
Challenge Yves du Manoir
Current standings
Current squad
The Stade Niçois squad for the
2024–25 season is:
Espoirs squad
Women
The club includes a women's section: the Nice University Racing Rugby Club, which plays in the second division (Federale 1).
Academy
The club includes a rugby school.
Performance Pathway with the Scottish Rugby Union
On 25 July 2017, the
Scottish Rugby Union
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announced a 'Performance Pathway' partnership with Stade Niçois.
As part of this partnership, former
Scotland
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international
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 ...
players
Peter Murchie and
Tyrone Holmes joined the French club.
Peter Murchie joined as a coach, while
Tyrone Holmes joined as a Strength and Conditioning Coach.
Two
Glasgow Warriors players from the
Scottish Rugby Academy; fly-half
Josh Henderson and flanker
Bruce Flockhart were loaned to the club for game time for the season 2017–18. In addition, former
London Scottish player Dave Cherry also joined the club.
although he later moved back to Edinburgh.
Notable former players
Internationalists
References
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Rugby clubs established in 2012
Rugby union clubs in France
2012 establishments in France
Sport in Nice