Stade Municipal Bordeaux
Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
Stade Municipal Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France — opened not confirmed, 6 rugby league games hosted, home of no tenant club confirmed — every recorded fixture is a full France national rugby league team international.
Sourcing caveat: Very little beyond the match ledger itself could be found for this venue — capacity, floodlights, playing surface and any tenant club are not confirmed by any source found. Given the sparse trail, some initial research surfaced rugby UNION material for the separate, better-documented Chaban-Delmas/Parc Lescure ground and had to be discarded as irrelevant to this venue specifically.
Ground facts
| Opened | not confirmed (No opening date was found; this is a genuinely separate ground from the already-covered Stade Chaban-Delmas/Parc Lescure, confirmed directly against Rugby League Project's own venue-specific match ledger, which lists a distinct 6-match record here entirely non-overlapping with Chaban-Delmas's own 9-match record.) |
| Home club | no tenant club confirmed — every recorded fixture is a full France national rugby league team international |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 6 |
| Top recorded crowd | 23,419 |
| Test matches hosted | 6 |
| First rugby league match | 11 January 1953 — France 5-0 Australia (attendance 23,419, our recorded top crowd) |
| Years used | 1953–1963 |
| Location | Bordeaux, Aquitaine |
Name history
- Stade Municipal — the only name found for this venue in rugby league sources
Rugby league history
A genuinely distinct Bordeaux venue from the city's better-known Stade Chaban-Delmas/Parc Lescure (already covered on this site), confirmed by cross-checking Rugby League Project's own match-by-match ledger for each ground, which shows two entirely separate, non-overlapping sets of fixtures. Stade Municipal hosted six full France national-team internationals across a decade, including a genuine 1954 Rugby League World Cup match between Great Britain and New Zealand — a detail that likely explains an unrelated, apparently erroneous claim found elsewhere (on the Chaban-Delmas Wikipedia page) of a 1954 World Cup match at that different ground: the two Bordeaux stadiums, both used for rugby league in the same era, appear to have been confused with one another in at least one secondary source.
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 11 Jan 1953 — France 5-0 Australia (23,419)
- 11 Nov 1954 — Great Britain 26-6 New Zealand, 1954 Rugby League World Cup (14,000)
- 1 Jan 1956 — France ("Année Française") 7-10 New Zealand (3,378)
- 23 Dec 1956 — France 6-10 Australia (11,379)
- 20 Dec 1959 — France 2-17 Australia (8,848)
- 8 Dec 1963 — France 8-5 Australia (4,261)
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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