2025 Championship fixtures: When every club make the trip to Toulouse Olympique

Ben Olawumi 26 Nov 2024 6:18 PM

Stade Ernest-Wallon, Toulouse — The Stade Ernest-Wallon, the home of Toulouse Olympique

Toulouse Olympique away is among the first games Championship supporters look out for on fixture release day, and this year is no different.

A trip over the channel to the Stade Ernest-Wallon is always a popular one, with fans scrambling around to sort their journeys over there out – be it via plane, train or automobile.

To try and make life a little easier, we’ve compiled a list of when all 12 of the other clubs in the second tier will play in the south of France come 2025.

In doing so, each of those 12 will be taking on an Olympique side on the verge of a return to Super League according to the latest IMG gradings.

Sylvain Houles’ men haven’t been at the top table since the 2022 campaign, and were beaten by champions Wakefield in the 2024 Championship Grand Final having finished 2nd to Trinity in the ‘regular’ season.

At 8am on Tuesday morning, clubs were able to announce their opening home game of the campaign.

When Toulouse were drawn at home, Widnes Vikings supporters discovered that they would be the first to make the trip to the Stade Ernest-Wallon in 2025 come February.

The full fixture list was then revealed at 6pm, with Bradford the second club taking on Olympique over in France next year.

The Bulls will head across the Channel at the beginning of March having been beaten away from home by Toulouse in the play-off semi-finals for the last two seasons.

Elsewhere, newly-promoted sides Hunslet and Oldham’s trips to France come in March and June respectively.

London Broncos’ last visit to Toulouse saw them win the 2023 Championship Grand Final, winning promotion against the odds as a result. They will return to the scene of that incredible triumph in mid-June.

Olympique’s final home game of the year, at least in the ‘regular’ season, comes against Batley Bulldogs in early September.

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