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Montauban :

Land of Sport and Passion

Montauban is not only renowned for its rich architectural and cultural heritage. The city of Ingres also vibrates to the rhythm of the sporting events that take place throughout the year.

Publication du : 6 May 2025

Land of Sports and Passion

Equipped with a wide range of modern facilities, Montauban is a veritable showcase for amateur and professional sports enthusiasts alike. From the banks of the Tarn to the many sports complexes scattered throughout the city, every corner of our territory invites you to surpass your limits and enjoy the values of sport.

Greater Montauban proudly cultivates this sporting identity, hosting events of national and international stature that make our region shine far beyond its borders. From prestigious competitions to local tournaments, from traditional get-togethers to innovative events, Montauban’s sporting calendar offers a permanent spectacle for enthusiasts and the curious alike.

This sporting effervescence, driven by emblematic clubs and exceptional champions, bears witness to our community’s ongoing commitment to sport for all. Quality infrastructures, support for associations, assistance for top-level athletes… Montauban does everything in its power to ensure that sport remains an essential vector for well-being, education and social cohesion.

Discover the extraordinary sporting vitality of Montauban, a land where the passion for sport is a daily reality and is expressed in all its diversity.

Exceptional sports facilities

Montauban boasts a remarkable range of sports facilities, suitable for all levels and practices. The town continually invests in its facilities to offer you top-quality equipment, enabling athletes to train in optimal conditions, and betting on excellence!

Multi-sports complexesQuality infrastructures

The Center for Athletic Excellence (CES)

An athlete incubator

The CES, the city’s newest facility, confirms its status as a “Land of Sports”, welcoming high-level athletes (SHN) and high-potential athletes (SHP).

This exceptional sports center offers a wide range of facilities, including 6 rugby pitches for training and competitions, changing rooms, weight rooms, recovery areas (with cold-water pool and sauna), treatment areas, video rooms and living areas. A training center, designed for a future Staps (Sciences et techniques des activités physiques et sportives) program, will include classrooms and meeting rooms, flexible spaces and a 120-seat conference room. Supporting athletes by providing them with an environment of sporting excellence: this is the ambition of the CES.

The athletes who are part of this center help to develop the town’s sporting image, with departmental, regional and even national ambitions, through high-potential athletes (SHP) and their elders, high-level athletes (SHN). The SHP benefit from a number of agreements and a charter that guides them in all aspects of their development, from schooling to sports and media training, for example. Athletes also receive medical follow-up tailored to the high-intensity nature of their sport, as well as comprehensive monitoring of their social and educational success. So, throughout their sporting life and their development, progression or reconversion cycles, SHP and SHN are supported and surrounded.

Palais des Sports Jacques Chirac

This recent infrastructure offers 4 poles dedicated to different practices: gymnastics and acrobatics, duel sports, team sports and wellness/health. With 10,000m2 of built space and 3 hectares of outdoor facilities, it features two workout stations, padel courts and a free-access soccer pitch.

Georges Pompidou stadium

A national-scale athletics track

A structure now unique in the region. The new facility, which makes it the largest in Occitanie, retains the same axis as the old track, but is now equipped with nine lanes on the straight, eight on the secondary straight and eight in the ring, compared with six previously. All the jumping and throwing areas have also been doubled, enabling it to be certified “national” by the federation.

Specialized equipment

Ingréo aquatic complex

One of the largest aquatic complexes in France, it boasts 6 indoor and outdoor pools, a waterslide and a pentagliss, for a total of over 2,700 m2 of water, as well as a wellness area with sauna, hammam, Jacuzzi, fitness equipment… Enjoy swimming in all weathers in the indoor sports pool. This 25-meter pool with its 8 lanes, divided into levels, enables swimmers to train in complete tranquillity. A 50-meter Olympic-size pool with 8 lanes is also available outside for swimming under Montauban’s beautiful skies. Crawl, breaststroke or butterfly, they have all the space they need to perfect their swimming techniques at Ingréo!

Sapiac stadium

The referee in Tescou!

For the 2024 off-season, the 9300-capacity Sapiac bowl underwent a major transformation to allow every visitor to feel right at the heart of the excitement. A brand-new artificial turf pitch, guaranteed to put on a show, two standing weigh-in areas to get closer to the action, and a new South Stand offering 920 additional seats, plus 14 exclusive boxes for an unparalleled VIP experience. Coming to play at Sapiac is an experience that all former players remember. Between the fervor of the fans and the fury of the “Allez Sapiac”, a whole town vibrates to support its club. If you’re in the stands, you’ll probably hear cries inviting the referee to “throw himself into the Tescou”, the stream that runs alongside the stadium and passes through the Jardin des Plantes. Don’t take this as anti-gambling on the part of the fans, but as an unforgivable refereeing error on the part of the referee!

Set in a 16-hectare green natural environment north of Montauban, it includes a soccer pitch with 3 training fields and 2 fields of honor (Jean Verbeke stadium).There are also facilities for tennis (11 indoor and outdoor courts), archery, bike trial and a dog park.

Located on the Roseraie right-of-way, these facilities offer everyone the chance to practice an outdoor sport. Whatever your age or level: skateboarding, cycling, rollerblading, BMX, scootering… and even draisienne.

The 55-hectare course is set amidst the lush greenery and centuries-old oak trees of Prat de l’Estang. Designed by Yves Bureau, this 18-hole course is the longest in the region, with a layout whose difficulty can be adapted to suit every level of player.

Historic site hosting equestrian races and competitions. It has a sand trotting track 1120m long and 20m wide, with a 300m straight stretch. It also has a grass gallop track 1250m long and 15m wide, with a 350m straight stretch.

The nautical base is located in a verdant setting just 5 minutes from the historic center of Montauban. Close to all amenities, it is linked by a secure pedestrian walkway to Port Canal, a marina and leisure center on the Canal Latéral à la Garonne. The Tarn, the river that runs through the town of Montauban, is directly accessible from the center, offering a 9 km stretch of water, free of navigation and sheltered from the wind.

Climbzone, indoor climbing in Olympic Games format. Over 80 possible routes and regularly renewed bouldering for all levels. A 15-meter speed wall to international standards with free access.

Landscaped natural areas

Enjoy the pleasures of hiking with more than 20 trails in Montauban and the Greater Montauban area, as well as greenways and cycle paths:

A rich and varied sporting calendar

Not-to-be-missed annual events

“In Montauban, sport isn’t just a sport, it’s a way of life that’s been passed down from generation to generation. Whether you’re a seasoned sportsman, an occasional amateur or a simple spectator, our city offers you an ideal playground to thrill, share and surpass yourself.”