Toulouse Olympique are a professional rugby league club based in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne in the southwest of France. They were founded on 22 October 1937, two years after the founding of the French Rugby League Federation. Six-time winners of the French Rugby League Championship, in the mid-2000s Toulouse expressed a desire to join fellow French club Catalans Dragons in the Super League competition. After being denied a Super League licence for the 2009 season, the club played in the Rugby Football League's Championship competition in 2009 and 2010, however they returned to the Elite One Championship in 2011 after the spell was considered unsuccessful. In 2016 Toulouse once again joined the RFL system, this time in League 1, the third tier of English rugby league.