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RC Toulonnais (in full Rugby Club Toulonnais, with only "Rugby" capitalized in French; also known as RC Toulon or just Toulon) is a French professional rugby union club based in Toulon in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. A current participant in the first-tier Top 14 competition, they have won the national competition on three occasions.
Established in 1908, Toulon currently play their home games at the Stade Mayol, although they have begun to take high-profile matches to the 60,000-seat Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, playing one match there in 2008 � 09 and two in 2009 � 10. The club colours are red and black. Toulon were Pro D2 champions in 2005, but after finishing 14th in the 2005-06 Top 14 season, they were relegated back down. After signing a number of high profile footballers, the club made a strong run at promotion in the 2006-07 season, and succeeded in their promotion quest in 2007-08, winning that season's Pro D2 crown with two rounds to spare. They struggled to avoid relegation for much of the 2008 � 09 season, but a late-season surge brought them to ninth place and safety. Their 2009 � 10 season was more successful, with a second-place regular-season finish and a semifinal place domestically and a runner-up finish in the European Challenge Cup.
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