Stade Municipal d'Albi
Albi, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Stade Municipal d'Albi, Albi, France — opened 10 Jan 1938 — RC Albi 3-47 Australia, Kangaroos Tour, this site's own earliest recorded match, 19 rugby league games hosted, home of Racing Club Albi XIII (RC Albi XIII), founded 1934, one of the earliest French rugby league clubs; also the primary home ground of SC Albi (rugby union).
Ground facts
| Opened | 10 Jan 1938 — RC Albi 3-47 Australia, Kangaroos Tour, this site's own earliest recorded match (A direct WebFetch check of this site's own primary match-record source confirmed the full, accurate 19-match list below, resolving an apparent conflict with a general reference giving a much later 1962 construction date for the stadium; this site's own 1938 first-use date, independently corroborated by a specific dated match record, is used here.) |
| Home club | Racing Club Albi XIII (RC Albi XIII), founded 1934, one of the earliest French rugby league clubs; also the primary home ground of SC Albi (rugby union) |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 19 |
| Top recorded crowd | 10,413 |
| Capacity | 13,000 total (8,000 seated), following a renovation completed 19 Aug 2006 and a further extension finished 2007 |
| Test matches hosted | 3 |
| Years used | 1938–2025 |
| Location | Albi, Midi-Pyrénées |
Name history
- Stade Municipal d'Albi — no renaming found
Rugby league history
One of French rugby league's most historic grounds, hosting Kangaroos and Kiwis touring-side Tests virtually every few years from 1938 through 1989, then French national-team fixtures and European Cup matches into the 2020s. RC Albi XIII, forced to merge with SC Albi during a wartime (1941-44) Vichy government ban on rugby league, has won the French Championship/Super XIII title six times, most recently in 2024-25 (26-16 over AS Carcassonne), and also hosted several French rugby league finals as a neutral venue, including the 2010 French Rugby League Cup final and the 2016 and 2018 Elite Championship finals.
Rugby union (SC Albi) and athletics (French national championships in 2008, 2011 and 2018, and the international DecaNation event in 2012).
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 10 Jan 1938 — RC Albi 3-47 Australia, Kangaroos Tour
- 23 Oct 2010 — France 11-12 Wales, European Cup, attendance 10,413, this site's own recorded top crowd for the venue
- 25 Oct 2025 — France 36-0 Jamaica, World Cup Qualifiers
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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