![]() ![]() In Vern Cotter's first year as head coach, Clermont reached their first final since 2001 (which they lost in the last minute against Stade Français), and won the European Challenge Cup against Bath at the Twickenham Stoop. The team experienced a hard period between 20 and it was only with the arrival of Vern Cotter, in the middle of 2006, that the team's form began to improve. In 2004 they contested the European Challenge Cup again, though they lost to English club Harlequins, by one point, 27 to 26 at the last minute. The club would meet Toulouse again in the season final of 2001, with Toulouse winning 34 points to 22. However they lost the domestic final, being defeated by Toulouse again, 15 points to 11. They won the European Challenge Cup, defeating fellow French club CS Bourgoin-Jallieu 35 points to 16 at the Stade Gerland in Lyon. The club contested two finals in the 1999 season as well, the French championship and the European Challenge Cup. They also lost the championship, defeated 22 points to 16 by Toulouse. They lost the Challenge Yves du Manoir to Perpignan (the third time the clubs had met in the competition final). In 1994 season the club contested both the French championship and the Challenge Yves du Manoir. They also lost the Challenge Yves du Manoir in 1979, against Narbonne. The club then contested the championship final in 1978, though they lost to Béziers. Then they won the competition in 1976, defeating SC Graulhet 40 points to 12 just a few days after the death of the young international winger, Jean-François Philiponeau, struck on the field during an exhibition game. The club then contested the Challenge Yves du Manoir twice in a row over the 1972–73 seasons losing both finals, against AS Béziers and Narbonne respectively. The club became a force during the 1970s, starting in 1970 with a 3 points to nil championship loss to La Voulte Sportif. It would be another 10 years until the club featured in another competition final losing to US Dax in the 1957 Challenge Yves du Manoir. The club lost on both occasions, by one point, 14 to 13 to SU Agen in 1945, and then 14 to 11 against Toulouse in 1947. The following season the club won its first title winning the Challenge Yves du Manoir by defeating Perpignan 23 points to 10.ĭuring the 1940s the club contested the Coupe de France on two occasions, in 19. They made the final again in 1937, though that match was also lost, 13 points to 7 to CS Vienne. The following year they featured in their first championship final though they lost to RC Narbonne 6 points to 3. AS Montferrand lost the match, 3–3 and 9–0. The club made its first final of any competition in 1935, where they played Perpignan for the Challenge Yves du Manoir. He died in deportation at Buchenwald he had been deported there as a member of the Resistance and was involved in two successful escape attempts before dying during the third. ![]() The club was started by Marcel Michelin, the son of André Michelin, the founder of the Michelin tyre manufacturer. The club was established in 1911 as AS Michelin, though they changed their name to AS Montferrandaise in 1919 due to legal obligation. L'ASM, as they are also called, have reached the French Championship final thirteen times, losing on each occasion until their eleventh trip in 2010, when they won the championship in their 100th year as a club. The city is where Marcel Michelin, the son of the founder of the French tyre manufacturer, decided to implement the first factory but also the stadium after the creation of ASM for its workers before World War I. Clermont wear yellow and blue, the colours of the French tyre manufacturer Michelin, taken from the colours of Montferrand when the firm was created there in 1889. The team play at the 19,022-seat Parc des Sports Marcel Michelin, also known by its nickname, The Bib Park. Although the rugby section changed its name to the current ASM Clermont Auvergne in 2004, it is still frequently referred to as Montferrand both within and outside France. The rugby section is a part of a multi-sport club called AS Montferrand, which was founded in 1911 and adopted that name in 1919. Clermont are two times French champions in 2009-17. Association Sportive Montferrandaise Clermont Auvergne ( pronounced ) is a French rugby union club from Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes that currently competes in Top 14, the top level of the French league system.
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