Palais des Sports
Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Palais des Sports, Limoges, France — opened Not documented, 3 rugby league games hosted, home of None -- used for one-off international touring fixtures only.
Ground facts
| Opened | Not documented (The physical identity of this venue could not be confirmed with confidence. Limoges' well-documented modern indoor arena, Palais des Sports de Beaublanc, did not open until 1981 -- decades after this venue's three recorded matches (1952-1964) -- so it is almost certainly a different, earlier venue rather than that arena. No dedicated source describing an earlier Limoges 'Palais des Sports' by that name was found, and this entry does not assume any link to Beaublanc's later indoor arena or to the separate, better-documented outdoor Stade de Beaublanc.) |
| Home club | None -- used for one-off international touring fixtures only |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 3 |
| Top recorded crowd | 3,617 |
| Years used | 1952–1964 |
| Location | Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Name history
Rugby league history
A Limoges, France venue that hosted three mid-20th-century rugby league touring-side matches, a common format on Kiwis and Kangaroos tours of France in this era, which routinely stopped at provincial venues beyond Paris, Toulouse and Perpignan to play regional or military selections: New Zealand vs a Selection Guyenne (1952, crowd 3,617, the top figure recorded on this site), Australia vs the French Army (1956), and Australia vs Les Espoirs (a French development/under-23 selection, 1964). No capacity, floodlight or playing-surface information could be confirmed, and this write-up does not speculate on which specific building in Limoges hosted these matches.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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