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| Full name | Toulouse Olympique XIII | ||
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| Founded | 1937 | ||
| Website | to13.com | ||
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| CEO | Cedric Garcia | ||
| Chairman | Bernard Sarrazain | ||
| Coach | Sylvain Houles | ||
| Captain | Harrison Hansen | ||
| Competition | Championship | ||
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Toulouse Olympique or TO XIII is a professional rugby league club in Toulouse, south-west France.[1] Founded in 1937, two years after the French Rugby League Federation, the club is a six-time winner of the French Rugby League Championship.
The club played in the Rugby Football League's Championship competition in 2009, 2010 and 2011. It left the English structure at the end of the 2011 season and instead focused on the Elite One Championship from 2011/12 season. In 2016 Olympique again joined the RFL system, this time in League 1, the third tier of English rugby league, being promoted to the Championship at the end of that season. In 2012, Toulouse acquired fellow Toulouse side, Toulouse Jules-Julien Broncos XIII to act as their reserve side in Elite 2.[2] The side was re-branded as Toulouse Olympique Broncos and moved up to Elite 1 when Olympique re-joined the English competition.
The club's historic stadium is the stade des Minimes (also known as the stade Arnauné). But following the failure (due to opposition from the neighbourhood) of an expansion project that was to increase the stadium’s capacity to 10,000 seats, in 2020 the club reached an agreement with rugby union club Stade Toulousain to use the stade Ernest Wallon for the home matches of its professional team.
On 15 April 2021 Didier Lacroix, President of Stade Toulousain rugby union club and Bernard Sarrazain, President of Toulouse Olympique signed an agreement for Toulouse Olympique to play home games at the Stade Ernest-Wallon until the end of the 2029 season.[3]
- ^ "Operational Rules". RFL. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "TO reserve side Broncos in final". www.ladepeche.fr.
- ^ "TO and Stade Toulousain sign partnership agreement". www.ffr13.fr. 15 April 2021.