Stade Pierre-Fabre
Castres, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Stade Pierre-Fabre, Castres, France — opened 1907, 2 rugby league games hosted, home of Castres Olympique (Top 14 rugby union).
Ground facts
| Opened | 1907 (Opened 1907 as Stade Pierre-Antoine; renamed Stade Pierre-Fabre on 9 September 2017 in honour of Pierre Fabre, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur who owned and funded Castres Olympique from 1988 until his death in 2013.) |
| Home club | Castres Olympique (Top 14 rugby union) |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 2 |
| Top recorded crowd | 8,437 (8,437 for France's 10-48 defeat to Tonga in the 2006 Federation Shield -- we could not independently corroborate this attendance figure beyond Rugby League Project itself.) |
| Capacity | 12,300 |
| Years used | 2006–2026 |
| Location | Castres, Midi-Pyrénées |
Name history
- Stade Pierre-Antoine — 1907-2017
- Stade Pierre-Fabre — 2017-present
Rugby league history
Castres is a rugby union stronghold with essentially no rugby league heritage of its own -- both recorded matches at this ground were one-off imports, arranged two decades apart for very different reasons. The first, on 5 November 2006, was a Federation Shield fixture (a four-nation tournament run alongside that year's Tri-Nations) in which France lost 10-48 to Tonga in front of 8,437, played while the ground was still called Stade Pierre-Antoine. The second, on 4 July 2026, was the first-ever "French Magic Weekend": with the main Super League Magic Weekend staged at Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool, the two French Super League clubs played their own satellite fixture at home rather than travel to England, with Toulouse Olympique beating Catalans Dragons 60-18 in front of 5,483 -- contributing a little under 7% of that year's combined Magic Weekend attendance. A small amateur rugby league club, Castres XIII Rugby League Knights (est. 2013), plays locally but has no connection to either recorded fixture at this ground.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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