Baptiste Amédée Couilloud (born 22 July 1997) is a French professional
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player who plays as a
scrum-half for
Top 14
The Top 14 () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the National Rugby League (France), France National Rugby League, also ...
club
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
and the
France national team.
Professional career
Couilloud was called up to the French national team for the first time ahead of France's second
2018 Six Nations Championship
The 2018 Six Nations Championship (known as the Natwest 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons) was the 19th Six Nations Championship, the annual international rugby union tournament for the six major European rugby union nations.
The championship wa ...
match against Scotland as a replacement for
Antoine Dupont
Antoine Dupont (born 15 November 1996) is a French professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Top 14 club Toulouse and captains the France national team.
Dupont has won 39 individual accolades in his career, including the ...
who was injured in the first match against Ireland. He made his debut two weeks later against Italy coming on for
Maxime Machenaud
Maxime Machenaud (born 30 December 1988) is a French rugby union player. His position is Scrum-half (rugby union), scrum-half and he currently plays for Aviron Bayonnais, Bayonne and formerly of the France national rugby union team, France nation ...
in the 70th minute of an eventual 34–17 home victory.
France-Italie 34–17
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Career statistics
List of international tries
References
External links
France profile
at FFR
Lyon OU profile
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1997 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Lyon
French rugby union players
France international rugby union players
Rugby union scrum-halves
Lyon OU Rugby players
2023 Rugby World Cup players
21st-century French sportsmen
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