CA Brive
Full name | Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin | ||
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Founded | 1910 | ||
Location | Brive-la-Gaillarde, France | ||
Ground(s) | Stade Amédée-Domenech (Capacity: 13,979) | ||
President | Simon Gillham | ||
Coach(es) | Jeremy Davidson | ||
Captain(s) | Saïd Hireche | ||
League(s) | Top 14 | ||
2020–21 | 11th | ||
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Official website | |||
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Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin (CA Brive [briv]; Occitan: Club Atletic Briva Corresa Lemosin), is a French rugby union team founded in 1910 and based in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the département of Corrèze of the New Aquitaine région, located in the former region of Limousin. They wear black and white and play in the Stade Amédée-Domenech (capacity 16,000).
History[edit]
The club was created on 15 March 1910 established on 12 October 1912. Before the Second World War, Brive changed from rugby union to rugby league but returned to union after the war.
It played regularly in the First Division, and established itself as the stronghold of rugby in Limousin but for many years its only title was a Second Division trophy won in 1957. Brive did not make it to the final of the First Division championship until 1965. On 23 May that year they met SU Agen at Stade de Gerland in Lyon only to lose 15–8. Brive next made it to the final in the 1972 season, where they faced AS Béziers on May 21 in Lyon again, and again the Black and White came out the losers, as Béziers won their second consecutive title (9–0). Brive met AS Béziers in the final again three season later, in 1975. By then, Béziers had become the unbeatable team of the decade, and they won their fifth title, this time by just one point (13–12), at Parc des Princes in Paris. Brive experienced a resurgence in the middle of the 1990s, first in 1996, when they made their first finals appearance since the mid-1970s in Paris. Brive however went down 20–13 to Stade Toulousain. It was their fourth losing final. Only one club have lost more finals without winning one than them (US Dax 5). That year however, they won the famed Challenge Yves du Manoir, defeating Pau 12–6. The following season, they made it to the final of the Heineken Cup where they faced the Leicester Tigers from England at Cardiff Arms Park. Brive finally won a final, defeating the Tigers 28–9.[1] They are the only club to win the European Cup without ever winning the domestic championship. On 22 February 1997, Brive, as European champions, were pitted against Auckland Blues who had recently won the Super 12. The French team were no competition to an extra powerful Kiwi side which won easily 47–11.[2] In 1998 Brive again reached the final of the Heineken Cup, this time against Bath. They came agonizingly close to capturing back-to-back titles, losing by just one point, 19–18 at Parc Lescure in Bordeaux.
Since then, however, the club has been in dire straits, as it was subjected to a punitive relegation to the second division in 2000 due to bad financial management. They bounced back two years later and have struggled ever since in the lower echelons of the league table, except in 2004 when they managed to qualify for the playoffs. In 2005, Brive went to the semi-finals of European Challenge Cup, but they lost to Pau. In 2009, after taking the sixth place of the Championship, the Black and White could participate to the Heineken Cup, but the competition was difficult for them, against the Europeans champions Leinster, Llanelli Scarlets and London Irish.
After difficulties and a relegation in second division in 2012, Brive returned to the Top 14 the following year, after defeating Pau.[3]
Players past and present[edit]
Brive have bred some 30 players who went on to play for France. Among them, Amédée Domenech, nicknamed "Le Duc"" ("the Duke") who played there in the 50s and 60s, and gave his name to the stadium shortly after his death in 2003. Prolific flanker Olivier Magne, fly-half Christophe Lamaison or Alain Penaud, number-eight Jean-Luc Joinel and hooker Michel Yachvili, the father of Dimitri Yachvili, also wore the CAB jersey. Argentinian fly-half Lisandro Arbizu and powerful prop Christian Martin also played for them. Two French internationals are currently playing for Brive, fullback Alexis Palisson and Arnaud Méla. But the club has become home to many Pacific Islanders including the Fijian Norman Ligairi, the Samoa and Gloucester legend Terry Fanolua and Tongan Suka Hufanga. They recently signed Welsh International, Barry Davies from the Llanelli Scarlets and Andy Goode from the Leicester Tigers, and have also signed New Zealand-born England international Riki Flutey from London Wasps effective with the 2009–10 season.
Finals results[edit]
French championship[edit]
Date | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Stadium | Spectators |
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23 May 1965 | SU Agen | CA Brive | 15–8 | Stade de Gerland, Lyon | 28.758 |
21 May 1972 | AS Béziers | CA Brive | 9–0 | Stade de Gerland, Lyon | 31.161 |
18 May 1975 | AS Béziers | CA Brive | 13–12 | Parc des Princes, Paris | 39.991 |
1 June 1996 | Stade Toulousain | CA Brive | 20–13 | Parc des Princes, Paris | 48.162 |
Challenge Yves du Manoir[edit]
Date | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Stadium | Spectators |
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1 June 1963 | Pau | CA Brive | 12-6 | Stade Charléty, Paris | 13.000 |
18 May 1974 | RC Narbonne | CA Brive | 19–10 | Stade Yves du Manoir, Colombes | |
27 January 1996 | CA Brive | SU Agen | 11–0 | Parc des Princes, Paris | 13.000 |
Coupe de France[edit]
Date | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Stadium | Spectators |
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1 June 2000 | Biarritz Olympique | CA Brive | 24-13 | Parc Lescure, Bordeaux |
Heineken Cup[edit]
Date | Winner | Runner-Up | Score | Stadium | Spectators |
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25 January 1997 | CA Brive | Leicester Tigers | 28–9 | Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff | 41.664 |
31 January 1998 | Bath Rugby | CA Brive | 19–18 | Parc Lescure, Bordeaux | 36.500 |
Current standings[edit]
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Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points for | Points against | Points diff. | Tries for | Tries against | Try bonus | Losing bonus | Points | |||||
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1 | Bordeaux Bègles | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 252 | 161 | +89 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 33 | ||||
2 | Toulouse | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 230 | 127 | +101 | 27 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 31 | ||||
3 | Racing | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 211 | 191 | +20 | 22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 24 | ||||
4 | Castres | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 181 | 227 | –46 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 23 | ||||
5 | Montpellier | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 226 | 170 | +66 | 21 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 22 | ||||
6 | Lyon | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 218 | 164 | +54 | 25 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 22 | ||||
7 | La Rochelle | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 207 | 148 | +59 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 20 | ||||
8 | Clermont | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 200 | 225 | –25 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 18 | ||||
9 | Pau | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 179 | 225 | –46 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 18 | ||||
10 | Brive | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 160 | 189 | –29 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 17 | ||||
11 | Stade Français | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 151 | 220 | –69 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||||
12 | Toulon | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 149 | 193 | –44 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||||
13 | Biarritz | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 173 | 233 | –70 | 17 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 14 | ||||
14 | Perpignan | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 148 | 233 | –85 | 12 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 14 | ||||
If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
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Green background (rows 1 and 2) receive semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2022–23 European Rugby Champions Cup. Blue background (rows 3 to 6) receive quarter-final play-off places, and receive berths in the Champions Cup. Yellow background (rows 7 and 8) indicates teams outside the play-offs that also earn a place in the Champions Cup. Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2022–23 European Rugby Challenge Cup. Pink background (row 13) will qualify to the relegation play-offs. Red background (row 14) will automatically be relegated to 2022–23 Rugby Pro D2. Final table — source: [1] Updated: 31 October 2021 |
Current squad[edit]
The Brive squad for the 2021–22 season:[4]
Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.
Notable former players[edit]
This list of "famous" or "notable" persons has no clear inclusion or exclusion criteria. Please help to define clear inclusion criteria and edit the list to contain only subjects that fit those criteria. (June 2012) |
- Horacio Agulla
- Lisandro Arbizu
- Christian Martin
- Agustin Figuerola
- Pablo Henn
- Alex Moreno
- Eduardo Simone
- Tim Donnelly
- Peter FitzSimons
- Mark Giacheri
- Poutasi Luafutu
- Alfie Mafi
- Chris Tuatara-Morrison
- John Welborn
- Scott Franklin
- John Tait
- Phil Christophers
- Ben Cohen
- Riki Flutey
- Shane Geraghty
- Andy Goode
- Ben Johnston
- Jamie Noon
- Shaun Perry
- Steve Thompson
- Christian Short
- Filimone Bolavucu
- Sisa Koyamaibole
- Norman Ligairi
- Tabai Matson
- Benito Masilevu
- Dominiko Waqaniburotu
- Demba Bamba
- Roger Bastié
- Mathieu Bélie
- Nicolas Bézy
- Alexandre Bias
- Pascal Bomati
- Sébastien Bonetti
- Terry Bouhraoua
- Russlan Boukerou
- Jacques Boussuge
- Hugues Briatte
- Julien Brugnaut
- Romain Cabannes
- Benoît Cabello
- Julien Caminati
- Pierre Capdevielle
- Georges Carabignac
- Philippe Carbonneau
- Alain Carminati
- Sébastien Carrat
- Florian Cazenave
- Pierre Chadebech
- Damien Chouly
- Antonie Claassen
- Valentin Courrent
- Benjamin Dambielle
- Thierry Devergie
- Amédée Domenech
- Yves Donguy
- Thibault Dubarry
- Fabrice Estebanez
- Roger Fite
- Mickaël Forest
- Gaëtan Germain
- Jérôme Guisset
- Dominique Harize
- Cédric Heymans
- Teddy Iribaren
- Nicolas Jeanjean
- Jean-Luc Joinel
- Virgile Lacombe
- Damien Lagrange
- Julien Laharrague
- Christophe Lamaison
- Benjamin Lapeyre
- Julien Le Devedec
- Olivier Magne
- Arnaud Mela
- Arnaud Mignardi
- Rodolphe Modin
- Vincent Moscato
- Alexis Palisson
- Élie Pebeyre
- Michel Pebeyre
- Alexandre Péclier
- Alain Penaud
- Maxime Petitjean
- Lucas Pointud
- Jefferson Poirot
- Fabien Sanconnie
- Thomas Sanchou
- Patrick Sébastien
- Atila Septar
- Farid Sid
- Scott Spedding
- Laurent Travers
- Sébastien Vahaamahina
- Ludovic Valbon
- Loïc Van Der Linden
- David Venditti
- Elvis Vermeulen
- Sébastien Viars
- Pierre Villepreux
- Dimitri Yachvili
- Michel Yachvili
- Karlen Asieshvili
- Giorgi Jgenti
- Vasil Kakovin
- David Khinchagishvili
- Mamuka Magrakvelidze
- Irakli Natriashvili
- Anton Peikrishvili
- Goderdzi Shvelidze
- Valerio Bernabò
- Luciano Orquera
- Damian Browne
- Tjiuee Uanivi
- Brad Mika
- Tamato Leupolu
- Viliame Waqaseduadua
- Grzegorz Kacala
- Petru Bălan
- Alexandru Manta
- Sorin Socol
- Petrişor Toderasc
- Pat Barnard
- Kevin Buys
- Antonie Claassen
- Terry Fanolua
- Na'ama Leleimalefaga
- Simon Lemalu
- Mike Blair
- Tom Smith
- Gregor Townsend
- Suka Hufanga
- Kevin Dalzell
- Barry Davies
- Liam Davies
- Kieran Murphy
- Alix Popham
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Mick Cleary and John Griffiths, ed. (1997). Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1997–98. London: Headline Book Publishing. ISBN 0 7472 7732 X.
- ^ Pope, Bruce (23 February 1997). "Brive out with the washing". The Independent. London: INM. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
- ^ Imakhoukhene, Hamid (19 May 2013). "Brive ne l'a pas volée". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2014.
- ^ "Effectif". CA Brive (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2019.
External links[edit]
- (in French) CA Brive Official website
- Unofficial fan's site
- CA Brive profile on Rugby15