Rugby union match in 2025. In international rugby union competition, France's national men's team have not played at the stadium since their opening game in 1983, though the
national women's team played against
Ireland at the stadium in February 2018 during the team's eventual
grand slam-winning
Six Nations campaign. The national men's teams of other nations have played at the stadium, however. During the
1991 Rugby World Cup held in France, the stadium hosted a single game; a pool 4 match that saw
Gabriel Vlad make his international debut for
Romania in a defeat against
Canada.
End-of-year test matches in November 2017 between
Japan and
Tonga, and France and Japan, were originally planned to take place at the
Stade Pierre-Mauroy in southeastern
Lille. A scheduling conflict then arose with the
semi-finals and final of the
2017 Davis Cup tennis tournament, which were also planned to be held at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, leading to a relocation of the Japan–Tonga match to the Stade Ernest-Wallon and the France–Japan match to the
U Arena in
Nanterre.
Rugby sevens During the 2021–22 season of international
rugby sevens competition, the Stade Ernest-Wallon became the new venue for the annual
France Sevens and
France Women's Sevens tournaments, taking over hosting duties from the
Stade Jean-Bouin in Paris. While the men's tournament is one of the later stages of the
men's seven series, the women's tournament serves as the final leg of the
women's series, and the champion of the series is crowned at the stadium. The
Perpignan rugby league club
Catalans Dragons, who play in the
British rugby league system, played a regular season
Super League home game at the Stade Ernest-Wallon in June 2013 to an unprecedented crowd of 14,858 spectators, as part of an initiative to promote rugby league in France as a Super League expansion opportunity during the era of the
licensing system. The club, however, were fined £2,000 by the
Rugby Football League for unsportsmanlike conduct of fans during the game. From 2020, following an agreement reached with the Stade Toulousain, owner of the facilities, the rugby league club Toulouse Olympique also plays its home matches there. On 12 February 2022, The Stadium played host to Toulouse Olympique's first ever game in Super League against
Huddersfield Giants, the Giants winning 42–12 in front of a crowd of 5,238. ==See also==