The France national rugby league team represents France in international rugby league matches. They are referred to as les Chanticleers or less commonly as les Tricolores. The team is run under the auspices of the Fédération Française de Rugby à XIII.
Union Sportive Arlequins Perpignanais, also referred to as USA Perpignan or Perpignan, is a French professional rugby union club founded in 1933 and based in Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales department. They compete in the Top 14, France's elite division of rugby.
XIII Catalan is a rugby league team from Perpignan in the Pyrénées-Orientales region of southern France. They were founded in 1934, and thus were founding members of the French rugby league championship. In 2000 their senior team merged with nearby neighbours AS Saint Estève to form Union Treiziste Catalane, now better known in the English-speaking world by their Super League identity of Catalans Dragons.
Puig Aubert, is often considered the best French rugby league footballer of all time. Over a 16-year professional career he would play for Carcassonne, XIII Catalan, Celtic de Paris and Castelnaudary winning five French championships and four French cups along with representing the France on 46 occasions. His position of choice was at fullback and after his retirement in 1960 he would go on to coach Carcassonne and France along with becoming head French national selector for several years.
Association Sportive of Carcassonne are a semi-professional rugby league football club based in Carcassonne in the region of Occitanie in the south of France. They play in the French Super XIII and are one of the most successful clubs in French rugby league, having won a total of twelve French rugby league championship titles and seventeen Lord Derby Cups.
RC Carpentras XIII are a semi-professional rugby league club based in the city of Carpentras, Vaucluse in the south of France. Formed in 1938, they play in the Elite Two Championship in France, which is the 2nd tier. Their home ground is the Stade de la Roseraire.
Lyon Villeurbanne XIII are a semi-professional rugby league club from the town of Lyon, Rhône-Alpes in France. Formed in 1934 they are one of the oldest clubs in France. During the 1950s they won both the league and cup. Their home stadium is the Stade Georges Lyvet. They withdrew from the Elite 2 Championship, the second tier of French rugby league, before the start of the 2021–2022 season.
Max Rousié was a French rugby league and rugby union footballer who rose to prominence in the 1930s. He was a dual-code international, eventually becoming captain of the French rugby league team.
Raymond Contrastin was a French rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. A France international representative winger, he has been inducted into the International Rugby League Hall of Fame. He started playing rugby union for SA Condom until 1947, before joining RC Roanne XIII, with which he was French champion in 1928 and for Bordeaux XIII, with which he won the 1954 title. Contrastin featured in the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, Les Chanticleers first such tour, during which they lost four of their 28 games.
René Duffort is a French former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer and coach who represented France national rugby league team and coached them in multiple Rugby League World Cups.
Jean Dauger was a French rugby union and rugby league footballer. He played as a centre. He was nicknamed Manech, which is a Lower Navarre Basque translation of his given name.
Robert Samatan, nicknamed Bob la Science was a French rugby union and rugby league footballer.
André Marius Lacoste, known as Jep Lacoste was a French rugby league coach.
Claude Mantoulan, nicknamed La Mantoule, is a French former rugby union and rugby league player.
Francis Lévy, was a rugby league player and coach. As player, he played as a utility back.
The 1934–35 Coupe de France de Rugby à XIII was the inaugural edition of the Coupe de France de Rugby à XIII, the country's original and premier knockout competition for the sport of rugby league football. It coincided with the holding of the inaugural French Rugby League Championship. US Lyon-Villeurbanne won the tournament, beating Perpignan-based XIII Catalan in the final. One week after the tournament's conclusion, the winning team was presented with a championship trophy donated by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, and the competition later became known by its name, the Coupe Lord Derby.
The 1935 French Rugby League Cup final was the inaugural final of the French Rugby League Cup, the country's original and premier knockout competition for the sport of rugby league football. It took place on 5 May 1935, at Stade Jacques-Thomas in Toulouse.
Jean Barreteau was a French rugby union player and a French rugby league international, primarily playing as a fullback.
Henri Riu was a Rugby union and Rugby league player, representing France internationally in Rugby league. He played as a flanker, prop, lock, and hooker.
Roger Claudel, born on April 10, 1911 in Chartres and mort pour la France on December 8, 1944 in the Rammersmatt region, was a French international rugby union player who played both XV and XIII rugby between 1920 and 1940.
