Montreal Carabins

The Montréal Carabins (Carabins de Montréal) are the men's and women's athletic teams that represent the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Teams play at the CEPSUM Stadium and at l'aréna du CEPSUM, located at the Université de Montréal campus.

Cheerleading
The Carabins cheerleading team was created in 2002 at the same time as the rebirth of the Carabins football team. The team has hosted Super Bowl parties in order to finance its activities.

Football
The Carabins football program was originally in operation from 1966 to 1971, but was cut following a philosophical change with intercollegiate athletics among Quebec universities at the time. As that perception changed, the football team was reinstated in 2002 and has been in continuous operation since. The team has won five Dunsmore Cup conference championships (2014, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023) and two Vanier Cups national championship (2014, 2023).

Women's ice hockey


The 2009-10 season was their inaugural season in the CIS. The Carabins finished second during the regular season and claimed the fifth position in the CIS Canadian championships. In their second season (2010–11), the team ranked in second place in the Québécois conference behind the McGill Martlets. In the 2011 playoffs, the Carabins eliminated the Concordia Stingers but the Carabins are in turn to eliminate in finale by McGill. This elimination did not qualify them for the CIS championships at Waterloo, Ontario.

Men's rugby
Since their inaugural season in 2012, the Carabins men's rugby program competes at a varsity level against universities from Québec and Eastern Ontario in the RSEQ and has won one RSEQ championship (2016).

Women's rugby
Since their inaugural season in 2012, the Carabins women's rugby program competes at a varsity level against universities from Québec and Eastern Ontario in the RSEQ conference of U Sports.

Notable former players

 * 🇦🇲 Armenia
 * Serge Topalian


 * 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Gerardo Argento
 * Marc-André Bonenfant
 * Lorenzo Borella
 * Guillaume Couturier
 * Maël Demarcy
 * Laurent Parizeau
 * Jean-Philippe Roberge-Marin
 * Ibrahim Baldeh
 * Christian Nuñez


 * 🇨🇴 Colombia
 * Hugo-Pierre Marcotte


 * DR Congo
 * Abel Moleka


 * 🇫🇷 France
 * Julien Cohen-Arazi
 * Gabriel de Foresta
 * Augustin Nechad
 * Jean-Jacques Seba
 * Ugo Robard
 * Wandrille Lefèvre


 * 🇬🇳 Guinea
 * Boubacar Diallo


 * 🇭🇹 Haiti
 * Woodler Elie Blaise
 * Peter Thierry Eustache


 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon
 * Pascal Aoun
 * Anasse Brouk


 * 🇲🇬 Madagascar
 * Herizo Frédéric Ramampiandra


 * 🇲🇺 Mauritius
 * Kévin Chan


 * 🇲🇦 Morocco
 * Hicham Aaboubou


 * 🇸🇳 Senegal
 * 🇺🇸 Alhassane Fox
 * 🇫🇷 Kane Limamoulaye
 * Oumar Balla Sow


 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * Nicolas Suter


 * Syria
 * Nawar Hanna


 * UAE
 * Sami Sreis

Notable former staff members

 * Sergio Grande (Goalkeeper coach)

Notable former players

 * Sandra Couture - 2002-2006
 * Véronique Maranda - 2007-2009
 * Émilie Mercier - 2005-2009
 * Véronique Laverdière - 2006-2011