Marseille will host the final of the Top 14 in 2023-24, Olympic Games oblige, the National Rugby League (LNR) announced on Monday.

The Stade Vélodrome will be mobilized for the occasion.

The lair of Olympique de Marseille already regularly hosts rugby matches.

This year, it will be the scene of the finals of the European Rugby Cup, on May 28, and of the European Challenge, the day before.

"The holding of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the conditions of use of the Stade de France by the event do not allow the progress at the Stade de France of the final of the Top 14", indicates the National Rugby League on the Twitter account of the Top 14. The Games will start on July 26, 2024, i.e. after the final of the Top 14, but the necessary adjustments to the Stade de France explain this relocation to Marseille.

The LNR Management Committee has designated, after in-depth study of the files, the host cities below:



- Semi-finals of the TOP 14 2022/2023: San Sebastián


- Final of the TOP 14 2023/2024: Marseille


- Semi-finals of the TOP 14 2024/2025: Bordeaux



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– National Rugby League (@LNRofficiel) May 9, 2022


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The LNR's steering committee has also announced that the semi-finals will take place in San Sebastián, in the Spanish Basque country, in 2023, and in Bordeaux in 2025. This season, the semi-finals of the Top 14 will be played in Nice ( June 17-18) and the final at the Stade de France on June 24.

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