The Rugby Club Cannes Mandelieu is a French

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 ...

club, based in

Cannes Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...

and in

Mandelieu-la-Napoule Mandelieu-la-Napoule (; ; locally spelled Mandelieu-La Napoule) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera, just to the southwest of Cannes and ...

History

In 1993, the club was admitted to Group A of the

French rugby union championship 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 France National Rugby League, also known by its French initialism ...

première division. However, after just one season, the club was relegated to a lower division. After the 2005–2006 season, the club was relegated to the

Fédérale 2 Fédérale 2 is a rugby union club championship division in France. It is the sixth division of rugby above Fédérale 3. Teams can earn promotion to Fédérale 1, and subsequently, to the National 2 and Nationale leagues, and on to the profes ...

, and a year later to the

Fédérale 3 Fédérale 3 is the seventh division of rugby union in France. The competition involves 226 clubs in 21 pools of 8, and winners can progress up into higher division of competition. The competition above Fédérale 3 is Fédérale 2 and above that, ...

. In 2008, they won the Fédérale 3 division title, returning to the Fédérale 2, remaining there only for one season. They were relegated to the Fédérale 3 again, and it was discovered that the club had misused public funds from the Manedeliu municipality.Nicematin.com, Le club repartira en Honneur ! 12 mai 2009

Awards

* Champion of

: 2007/08

Other competitions

* Finalist du Challenge of l'Espérance (1): 1996/97

Famous Players

* John Herman * Franck Montanella * Boursier Sébastien * Nicola Cavaliere

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rugby Club Cannes) Rugby union clubs in France