Rugby Club Salon XIII, nicknamed the ''Jaguars'', are a French

Rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

club based in

Salon-de-Provence Salon-de-Provence (, ; or , ), commonly known as Salon, is a commune located about northwest of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department (Metropolis of Aix-Marseille Provence), region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southern France. It ...

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( ; , ; ; "the Mouths of the Rhône") is a Departments of France, department in southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var (department), Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the sout ...

in the

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (commonly shortened to PACA), also known as Région Sud, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France, located at the far southeastern point of the Metropolitan France, mainland. The main P ...

region. The club plays in the French

Elite Two Championship Elite 2 (formerly the Elite Two Championship) is the second tier semi-professional rugby league competition in France below Super XIII, but above the National Division 1. The season runs from September to April. The clubs play each other hom ...

History

Founded in 1947 RC Salon lifted their first silverware in 1959 when they won the National 2 (now called National Division 1) title beating Le Soler in the final 21–10. It would be another 17 years before another trophy was won and once again it was the ''National 2'' league title this time following a 13–2 win against US Entraigues XIII . After promotion to the 2nd tier the club became a permanent if not a successful club in the

. Until that is the mid nineties when from nowhere the club won back to back titles. In 95/96 they beat

Tonneins XIII Tonneins XIII are a French Rugby league club based in Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne, in the Aquitaine region. They play in the French Elite 2 championship. The club plays its home games at the Stade Jean-Bernege History Founded in 1934 making th ...

30-16 and the following season they beat Saint-Cyprien 34–8. The club is currently back playing in the 3rd tier. In season 2016/17 they finished top of the ''National Division 1 East'' league.

Current squad

Squad for 2022-23 Season;

Honours

* Elite Two Championship (2): 1995–96, 1996–97 * National 2 (National Division 1) (2): 1958–59, 1975–76

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Salon XIII, Racing Club Rugby league teams in France 1947 establishments in France Rugby clubs established in 1947