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• Return flight from Dublin to Toulouse / Carcassonne
• Ground transportation as per itinerary
• 4nts Dinner, Bed & Breakfast in (2-4 sharing) in 3* Hotel
• 1 x lunches at Toulouse Training Centre
• 5 x Quality training sessions
• 1 pre-arranged match against local opposition
• Stadium tour
• City sightseeing tour
• Opportunity to watch first team training session (subject to match schedule) and picture taking / autograph signing
• Services of a Topflight Soccer tour coordinator in Toulouse
• All airport, airline and government taxes
• 1 FREE place in 10 for party leaders
• Comprehensive travel insurance
Price is based on a minimum of 40 on each coach transfer. If you have fewer travelling we will organise for your group to join another for all transfers/tours in order to keep cost the same. If you have 20-25 travelling and wish to have private coach transfers a supplement will apply. Each training session lasts 2 hours and tour may be extended to include extra coaching and matches.
Professional, quality training vital to any successful residential Rugby Train and Play programme, and at Toulouse, we’ve got some of the best in the business. Each coach works with the players to help nurture youngster’s attributes of balance, speed, attitude and skill. Regular full scale matches will be pre-arranged against local sides of similar age and standard.
No trip would be complete without watching the top players in action. Topflight Sports for Schools, wherever possible, will arrange for the group to visit a first team training session and to arrange tickets to watch Toulouse play.
Toulouse play their home games at the Stade Ernest-Wallon, which was built in the late 1980s and was recently renovated. It has a capacity of 19,000. The stadium however cannot always accommodate all the fans of the Toulouse club.
For the larger fixtures, such as championship or Heineken Cup games or play-offs, the fixture may be moved to Stade de Toulouse, which has double capacity for 38,000. The stadium has been used for numerous matches at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. |
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Departure from Dublin to Toulouse |
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Transfer from Airport to Hotel |
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Afternoon Training Session |
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Evening meal in hotel |
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Day 2 |
Breakfast |
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Morning Training session |
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Guided City tour of Toulouse |
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Evening meal in Hotel |
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Day 3 |
Breakfast |
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Morning Training session |
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Lunch at centre |
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Day 4 |
Breakfast |
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Training session |
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Afternoon watch first team training (subject to availability)
& stadium tour |
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Day 5 |
Breakfast |
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Return flight to Dublin |
Founded in 1907, Stade Toulousain, also referred to as Toulouse, have been European champions three times, winning the Heineken Cup in 1996, 2003 and 2005. They were also runners-up in 2004. Stade Toulousain have also won 16 French Championship titles. Their home ground is the Stade Ernest-Wallon. However championship play-offs and Heineken Cup games are played at the Stadium Municipal de Toulouse.
The mid-1990s saw Stade Toulousain become a major force, as the club claimed four premierships in a row, winning the championship in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997, as well as the Challenge Yves du Manoir in 1995. The club emulated its success in the European Rugby Cup, becoming the first ever champions in the 1995-96 season.
The late 1990s and the 2000s saw the club again reach great heights. The club won the Challenge Yves du Manoir in 1998, defeating Stade Français Paris, and the 1999 championship as well as the 2001 championship and were runners-up in the 2003 season, losing to Stade Français in the final |
