ASM Clermont Auvergne

ASM Clermont Auvergne
Full name	Association Sportive ; Montferrandaise ; Clermont Auvergne
Nickname (s)	Les Jaunards
Founded	1911
Stadion	Stade Marcel-Michelin
Places	18,030
Trainer	Franck Azéma
Homepage	www.asm-rugby.com
league	Top 14
2018/19	2nd place
home	Away

The Association Sportive Montferrandaise Clermont Auvergne is a rugby union team from the French city of Clermont-Ferrand in the Puy-de-Dôme department , which plays in the top 14 league. It is the main division of the Association Sportive Montferrandaise sports club . The home games are played at the Stade Marcel-Michelin .

Until 2004, the team appeared under the name AS Montferrandaise and is still often called that today. She reached the final of the French championship fourteen times, but could only win the championship title in 2010 after ten final defeats; in six finals the difference was less than seven points. In 2017 the ASM won another national championship title. At the European level, the team has won the European Challenge Cup three times .

history

Martin Michelin, son of the Michelin group founder André Michelin , founded the club in 1911 under the name AS Michelin . The rugby department soon played a dominant role in this corporate sports club. In 1922 the name was pressured by the sports association Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques in AS Montferrandaise be changed.

In 1935, the team reached a major final game for the first time, in the Challenge Yves du Manoir . The ASM lost this game, as did the finals of the championship in 1936 and 1937. The final of the Challenge 1938 was won. In the following decade, the team competed twice in the Coupe de France , losing the finals in both 1945 and 1947. Ten years later, another defeat in the final followed in the Challenge.

Championship finals 2007

In the 1970s, AS Montferrandaise was one of the best teams in the country. She reached the championship finals twice and lost each time (1970 and 1978). Two further defeats in the final in the Challenge (1972 and 1979) are compared to a victory (1976). In 1986 AS Montferrandaise won the Challenge for the third time.

In 1994, the team reached both the final of the Challenge and the championship, both times they went off as a loser. Two more defeats in the championship final followed in 1999 and 2001. The team celebrated the greatest success not at national, but at European level; In 1999 and 2007 she won the European Challenge Cup ; in June 2007 Clermont lost the final of the French championship for the eighth time. The ninth defeat in the final followed a year later. With the loss to USA Perpignan in 2009, the club failed for the tenth time and for the third time in a row in the final.

The “final curse” that weighed on the team was finally broken in 2010. At the eleventh attempt she prevailed against USA Perpignan and won the championship title for the first time. After another final defeat in 2015 against Stade Français , the ASM won their second national championship title in 2017 with a 22:16 against RC Toulon .

The biggest triumph in club rugby has so far been denied Clermont Auvergne: In 2013, 2015 and 2017 they lost the finals of the Heineken Cup and the European Rugby Champions Cup . In 2019, however, the European Challenge Cup was won for the third time, which means that ASM is now the record winner in this competition alongside the Harlequins .

successes

Master: 2010, 2017
Championship finalists: 1936, 1937, 1970, 1978, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2019
Finalist Heineken Cup / European Rugby Champions Cup : 2013, 2015, 2017
European Challenge Cup winner : 1999, 2007, 2019
Finalist European Challenge Cup: 2004
Winner Challenge Yves du Manoir : 1938, 1976, 1986
Finalist Challenge Yves du Manoir: 1935, 1957, 1972, 1979, 1985, 1994
Finalist Coupe de France : 1945, 1947

ASM Clermont-Auvergne and AS Montferrandaise finals

championship

date	master	2nd finalist	Result	place	spectator
May 10, 1936	RC Narbonne	AS Montferrandaise	6: 3	Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse	25,000
May 2, 1937	CS Vienne	AS Montferrandaise	13: 7	Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse	17,000
17th May 1970	La Voulte Sportif	AS Montferrandaise	3-0	Municipal Stadium , Toulouse	35,000
May 28, 1978	AS Béziers	AS Montferrandaise	31: 9	Parc des Princes , Paris	42.004
May 28, 1994	Stade Toulousain	AS Montferrandaise	22:16	Parc des Princes, Paris	48,000
May 29, 1999	Stade Toulousain	AS Montferrandaise	15:11	Stade de France , Saint-Denis	78,000
June 9, 2001	Stade Toulousain	AS Montferrandaise	34:22	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	45,000
June 9, 2007	Stade Français	ASM Clermont Auvergne	23:18	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	79,475
June 28, 2008	Stade Toulousain	ASM Clermont Auvergne	26:20	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	79,793
June 6, 2009	USA Perpignan	ASM Clermont Auvergne	22:13	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	79.205
May 29, 2010	ASM Clermont Auvergne	USA Perpignan	19: 6	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	79,869
June 13, 2015	Stade Français	ASM Clermont Auvergne	12: 6	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	79,000
4th June 2017	ASM Clermont Auvergne	RC Toulon	22:16	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	79,771
June 15, 2019	Stade Toulousain	ASM Clermont Auvergne	24:18	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	79,786

Heineken Cup / European Rugby Champions Cup

date	winner	2nd finalist	Result	place	spectator
May 18, 2013	RC Toulon	ASM Clermont Auvergne	16:15	Aviva Stadium , Dublin	50,148
May 2, 2015	RC Toulon	ASM Clermont Auvergne	24:18	Twickenham Stadium , London	56,662
May 13, 2017	Saracens	ASM Clermont Auvergne	28:17	Murrayfield Stadium , Edinburgh	55.272

European Challenge Cup

date	winner	2nd finalist	Result	place	spectator
February 27, 1999	AS Montferrandaise	CS Bourgoin-Jallieu	35:16	Stade Gerland , Lyon	31,986
May 22, 2004	Harlequins	AS Montferrandaise	27:26	Madejski Stadium , Reading	13,123
May 19, 2007	ASM Clermont Auvergne	Bath rugby	22:16	The Stoop , London	10.134
May 10, 2019	ASM Clermont Auvergne	Atlantique Stade Rochelais	36:16	St. James' Park , Newcastle	28,438