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Saint-Estève XIII Catalan
French semi-professional rugby league club
Saint-Estève XIII Catalan are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Perpignan in the region of Pyrénées-Orientales in the south of France.
Founded in 2006 following the transfer of Catalans Dragons from the French to British rugby league system, the club plays in the Elite One Championship (the top tier rugby league competition in France), and effectively replaced Catalans Dragons in the French league, and thus is, in effect, Catalans Dragons reserves.
The club takes its name from AS Saint-Estève and XIII Catalan, the two clubs that merged to form Catalans Dragons. They have won the league title once and the cup four times. Their current home stadium is the Stade Municipal and they are coached by Jerome Guisset