| KNOWN AS |
Aviron Bayonnais, Bayonne |
| FOUNDED |
1904 |
| STADIUM (capacity) |
Stade Jean Dauger/ Parcs des
Sports |
12,000 |
| POSITION LAST YEAR |
7th.
Full results |
|
BUDGET FOR 2009/10 |
€12.0m
(up
€0.5m
from 2008/9) |
| COLOURS |
Light blue
and white (home), Dark blue and white (away) |
| HONOURS |
Championship
winners |
1913, 1934, 1943 |
| |
Championship runners-up |
1922, 1923, 1944, 1982 |
| |
Challenge Yves Manoir,
winners |
1936, 1980 |
| |
Coup de L’Esperance, winners |
1919 |
| |
Coupe Andre Moga, winners |
1995 |
| PRESIDENT |
Francis Salagoity |
|
| COACH |
Christian Gajan |
| TRIVIA |
The club mascot
is a Pottok pony called, brilliantly, ‘Pottoka’. |
| MAJOR SIGNINGS |
Ross Filipo (All Blacks lock) |
| |
Renaud Boyoud (France
prop) |
| |
Gavin Williams (Samoa
centre) |
| |
Salvatore Perugini
(Italy prop) |
| |
Ace Tiatia (Samoa
hooker) |
| CURRENT PLAYERS |
View Current Players & Player
Profiles |
| MAJOR PLAYERS |
Craig Gower
(Italy fly half former and Australian rugby league
international) |
| |
Rémy Martin (club captain and French
international flanker) |
| |
Benjamin Fall (young winger called into France
squad) |
| OFFICIAL SITE |
www.abrugby.fr |
