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Stade Lausanne Rugby Club

rugby team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7596132 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stade Lausanne Rugby Club is an amateur Swiss rugby union club from Lausanne, the Olympic Capital. The club plays in the Swiss first division - LNA - and are former Swiss Cup champions.

Club history

Having been one of the eight original clubs to play in the inaugural Swiss Championship when the Switzerland Rugby Union was formed in 1969, Stade Lausanne has been one of the most successful clubs in the country. With six National League A (NLA) and six Swiss Cup titles including 2009 and 2010 Stade Lausanne sits third - behind Hermance RRC and Rugby Club CERN on the National overall club honors list and is the most successful club in Lausanne and canton Vaud.

In the 2010/2011 season the First team marched into the Swiss final against RC Avusy and finished 2nd in the first division and the Second team got promoted to the second division of the Swiss Rugby Union.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Stade Lausanne Rugby Club” as rugby team. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 2009, 2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Stade, Lausanne and Rugby can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rugby team. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7596132. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stade Lausanne Rugby Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.