Stade Jules Ribet

Saint-Gaudens, Midi-Pyrénées, France

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Stade Jules Ribet, Saint-Gaudens, France — opened unknown, 6 rugby league games hosted, home of Racing Club Saint-Gaudinois Comminges XIII (founded 1958).

Ground facts

Openedunknown (No source states a construction or opening date for the stadium itself; the earliest recorded rugby league fixture (1961) only shows it was in use by then.)
Home clubRacing Club Saint-Gaudinois Comminges XIII (founded 1958)
Games hosted (rugby league, on record)6
Top recorded crowd3,200
Capacity2,000 seated, per French Wikipedia's dedicated stadium article — though a separate club-history infobox elsewhere gives a different ground name ('Stade du Saudet') and a capacity of 4,000, an unresolved discrepancy across sources, and the recorded 2002 crowd of 3,200 in any case exceeds the 2,000-seated figure, implying standing capacity beyond it
Test matches hosted5
Years used1961–2002
LocationSaint-Gaudens, Midi-Pyrénées

Name history

    Rugby league history

    The municipal ground in Saint-Gaudens, home of Racing Club Saint-Gaudinois Comminges XIII — one of the great names of 1960s-70s French rugby league, with championship titles in 1970, 1974, 1991 and 2004. It hosted a string of major touring-side internationals through the 1960s (New Zealand Kiwis in 1961 and 1965, Australian Kangaroos in 1963-64 and 1967-68), plus a Midi-Pyrénées representative match against the 1993 Kiwis and a 2002 Challenge Cup fourth-round tie against Halifax that drew the ground's largest recorded crowd, 3,200.

    Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted

    • 1961 — RC Saint-Gaudens 8-38 New Zealand (Kiwis Tour)
    • 1963/64 — Pyrenees 10-14 Australia (Kangaroos Tour)
    • 1965 — Pyrenees 7-5 New Zealand (Kiwis Tour)
    • 1967/68 — Pyrenees 0-15 Australia (Kangaroos Tour)
    • 1993 — Midi-Pyrénées 2-30 New Zealand (Kiwis Tour)

    Pre-dates the site's structured match-by-match records for these competitions, so listed here as sourced facts rather than linked match pages.

    Sources

    Data last verified: 11 August 2026.

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