Tarbes Pyrénées rugby
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| Full name | Tarbes Pyrénées rugby | ||
| Founded | 1901/2000 | ||
| Stadion | Stade Maurice-Trélut | ||
| Places | 15,000 | ||
| president | Jean-Pierre Davant | ||
| Trainer | Pierre-Henry Broncan Nicolas Nadau |
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| Homepage | www.tpr65.com | ||
| league | Fédérale 1 | ||
| 2013/14 | 6th place | ||
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Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby is a rugby union team in the French city of Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrénées department . This is represented in the second highest league Pro D2 and plays its home games in the Stade Maurice-Trélut . It was founded in August 2000 when Stadoceste Tarbais and CA Lannemezan merged to form a joint professional team.
history
Numerous rugby clubs in the Bigorre region have had success in the past, but none were financially strong enough to be able to survive in the top two leagues in the long term in the new professional era. Stadoceste Tarbais , the largest club and two-time French champions, as well as FC Lourdes (eight-time champions) and Stade Bagnerais (two-time championship finalists ), played in amateur leagues in the late 1990s.
At the end of the 1999/2000 season, however, CA Lannemezan could have been promoted to the second professional league Rugby Pro D2. The Ligue Nationale de Rugby , which is responsible for the organization, prevented the rise, however, because they feared that a club from a city with almost 6,000 inhabitants could never survive economically in the professional league. Stadoceste Tarbais, which had just been promoted to the second amateur league (Fédérale 2), offered CA Lannemezan to jointly form a professional team that should be able to move up to the top 14 in the medium term . The cities of Tarbes and Lannemezan are around 35 kilometers apart.
The government of the Hautes-Pyrénées department welcomed this project, as it was not willing to support more than one team anyway. FC Lourdes and Stade Bagnerais were offered the opportunity to join the new team, but these clubs turned it down. The board of directors of CA Lannemezan initially also refused, but the club president prevailed.
In August 2000, the team Lannemezan Tarbes Hautes-Pyrénées was founded, which replaced CA Lannemezan in the Rugby Pro D2. But soon afterwards the partnership was broken. All games took place in Tarbes and in Lannemezan people felt increasingly betrayed. A little later the name was changed to Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby , which in 2003 led to the final break with Lannemezan. CA Lannemezan started all over again in Féderale 3 and has now advanced to Pro D2.