French Barbarians

The Barbarian Rugby Club, more commonly known as the French Barbarians, is a rugby union team formed in 1979 and based in France. It was founded as an amateur invitational team modeled on the Barbarian F.C.

From the start of the 2017–18 season, the French Barbarians became the official second national team of the French Rugby Federation, which had previously designated either the France U20 side or France A as that team. This decision was reversed in 2019, to allow for the creation of a new second national team as a development side (above the Under 20s team but below the first men's team).

The French Barbarians play in sky, navy and royal blue hooped jerseys. As with the original Barbarians, players retain the socks from their "home" club strip.

History
Jean-Claude Skrela founded the club after he had played for, and adored, the original Barbarians in the later days of his career. Through the amateur era, all players chosen for the side were either French or played for French clubs.

One of the most recent matches was against the Argentina national team (Los Pumas) in early 2007, as part of their preparation for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. For the game, held in Biarritz, the coaches were Jacques Delmas (Biarritz), Patrice Lagisquet (Biarritz) and were captained by Thomas Lièvremont. While in 2008 they beat Canada in Victoria. They played with Argentina at José Amalfitani Stadium in Buenos Aires on 20 June 2009 as part of the mid-year test series, and lost 32–18.

In 2016 the French Barbarians beat Australia XV by 19–11 in their first match against an Australian side for over twenty years. And in late 2017 they beat the Māori All Blacks 19–15, which was the first time playing that side.

Current squad
French Barbarians squad to face the United States on 1 July 2022.

Coaches: 🇫🇷 Christian Labit and 🇫🇷 Kevin Gourdon

Note: Bold denotes players that have represented the French Barbarians in previous matches. Italics represents uncapped players.

Former players

 * Malik Hamadache
 * 🇦🇷 Miguel Avramovic
 * 🇦🇷 Lucas Borges
 * 🇦🇷 Mauricio Reggiardo
 * 🇦🇷 Alberto Vernet Basualdo
 * 🇦🇺 David Campese
 * 🇦🇺 John Eales
 * 🇦🇺 Nick Farr-Jones
 * 🇦🇺 James O'Connor
 * 🇦🇺 George Smith
 * 🇨🇲 Robins Tchale-Watchou
 * 🇨🇦 Mike James
 * 🇨🇮 Silvère Tian
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Richard Pool-Jones
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peter Winterbottom
 * Rupeni Caucaunibuca
 * Waisale Serevi
 * Marika Vunibaka
 * 🇫🇷 Louis Armary
 * 🇫🇷 David Aucagne
 * 🇫🇷 Teddy Baubigny
 * 🇫🇷 Alexi Balès
 * 🇫🇷 Pierre-Louis Barassi
 * 🇫🇷 Abdelatif Benazzi
 * 🇫🇷 Philippe Benetton
 * 🇫🇷 Pierre Berbizier
 * 🇫🇷 Philippe Bernat-Salles
 * 🇫🇷 Serge Betsen
 * 🇫🇷 Serge Blanco
 * 🇫🇷 Éric Bonneval
 * 🇫🇷 Olivier Brouzet
 * 🇫🇷 Nicolas Brusque
 * 🇫🇷 Laurent Cabannes
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Marie Cadieu
 * 🇫🇷 Didier Camberabero
 * 🇫🇷 Louis Carbonel
 * 🇫🇷 Alain Carminati
 * 🇫🇷 Thomas Castaignède
 * 🇫🇷 Richard Castel
 * 🇫🇷 Marc Cécillon
 * 🇫🇷 Denis Charvet
 * 🇫🇷 Gérard Cholley
 * 🇫🇷 Vincent Clerc
 * 🇫🇷 Didier Codorniou
 * 🇫🇷 Franck Comba
 * 🇫🇷 Jean Condom
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Jacques Crenca
 * 🇫🇷 Dylan Cretin
 * 🇫🇷 Marc Dal Maso
 * 🇫🇷 Marc de Rougemont
 * 🇫🇷 Christophe Deylaud
 * 🇫🇷 Philippe Dintrans
 * 🇫🇷 Christophe Dominici
 * 🇫🇷 Yves Donguy
 * 🇫🇷 Pierre Dospital
 * 🇫🇷 Michel Droitecourt
 * 🇫🇷 Daniel Dubroca
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Baptiste Élissalde
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Élissalde
 * 🇫🇷 Dominique Erbani
 * 🇫🇷 Jérôme Fillol
 * 🇫🇷 Jacques Fouroux
 * 🇫🇷 Fabien Galthié
 * 🇫🇷 Xavier Garbajosa
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Garuet-Lempirou
 * 🇫🇷 Stéphane Glas
 * 🇫🇷 Arthur Gomes
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Michel Gonzalez
 * 🇫🇷 Antoine Guillamon
 * 🇫🇷 Francis Haget
 * 🇫🇷 Dominique Harize
 * 🇫🇷 Cédric Heymans
 * 🇫🇷 Aubin Hueber
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-François Imbernon
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Luc Joinel
 * 🇫🇷 Jordan Joseph
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Baptiste Lafond
 * 🇫🇷 Patrice Lagisquet
 * 🇫🇷 Guy Laporte
 * 🇫🇷 Christophe Laussucq
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Patrick Lescarboura
 * 🇫🇷 Marc Lièvremont
 * 🇫🇷 Thomas Lièvremont
 * 🇫🇷 Sylvain Marconnet
 * 🇫🇷 Jimmy Marlu
 * 🇫🇷 Tony Marsh
 * 🇫🇷 Rémy Martin
 * 🇫🇷 Olivier Merle
 * 🇫🇷 Franck Mesnel
 * 🇫🇷 Frédéric Michalak
 * 🇫🇷 Vincent Moscato
 * 🇫🇷 Émile Ntamack
 * 🇫🇷 Romain Ntamack
 * 🇫🇷 Pascal Ondarts
 * 🇫🇷 Alain Paco
 * 🇫🇷 Michel Palmié
 * 🇫🇷 Boris Palu
 * 🇫🇷 Robert Paparemborde
 * 🇫🇷 Laurent Pardo
 * 🇫🇷 Adrien Pélissié
 * 🇫🇷 Fabien Pelous
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Baptiste Poux
 * 🇫🇷 Thibaut Privat
 * 🇫🇷 Pierre Rabadan
 * 🇫🇷 Swan Rebbadj
 * 🇫🇷 Arthur Retière
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Rives
 * 🇫🇷 Laurent Rodriguez
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Romeu
 * 🇫🇷 Aurélien Rougerie
 * 🇫🇷 Olivier Roumat
 * 🇫🇷 Philippe Saint-André
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Luc Sadourny
 * 🇫🇷 Philippe Sella
 * 🇫🇷 David Skrela
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Claude Skrela
 * 🇫🇷 Cédric Soulette
 * 🇫🇷 Jérôme Thion
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-François Tordo
 * 🇮🇹 Diego Domínguez
 * Hugo MacNeill
 * Fergus Slattery
 * 🇳🇿 Ian Jones
 * 🇳🇿 Josh Kronfeld
 * 🇳🇿 Simon Mannix
 * 🇳🇿 Chris Masoe
 * 🇳🇿 David Smith
 * 🇵🇱 Grzegorz Kacała
 * Naas Botha
 * Brett Gosper
 * Andre Joubert
 * Filipo Toala

Honours

 * Melrose Sevens
 * Champions (1): 1983