Condition: 8/10 Excellent. Light wear

Size: Adult’s XXL

Chest Measurement: 45-47 Inches / 114-120 CM

Manufacturer: Asics

Colour: Blue, black - white - bronze trim

Material: Polyester

Seasons: 1997/1998

Player: N/A

Patches: N/A

Official Asics CA Brive long sleeve rugby shirt from the 1997/98 season. Complete with European Cup above the crest (reigning Heineken Cup Champions).

Condition of this original rugby shirt is 8/10 – Excellent. Light wear (see photos).

All size and manufacturers labels present. Material is bright, vivid and smooth. Fantastic looking jersey, ideal for a collector or for framing.

Brive experienced a resurgence in the middle of the 1990s, first in 1996, when they made their first finals appearance since the mid-1970s in Paris. Brive however went down 20–13 to Stade Toulousain. It was their fourth losing final. Only one club have lost more finals without winning one than them (US Dax 5). That year however, they won the famed Challenge Yves du Manoir, defeating Pau 12–6. The following season, they made it to the final of the Heineken Cup where they faced the Leicester Tigers from England at Cardiff Arms Park. Brive finally won a final, defeating the Tigers 28–9. 

They are the only club to win the European Cup without ever winning the domestic championship. On 22 February 1997, Brive, as European champions, were pitted against Auckland Blues who had recently won the Super 12. The French team were no competition to an extra powerful Kiwi side which won easily 47–11. In 1998 Brive again reached the final of the Heineken Cup, this time against Bath. They came agonizingly close to capturing back-to-back titles, losing by just one point, 19–18 at Parc Lescure in Bordeaux.

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