It's a bumper weekend of délocalisations in the Top 14, as both Bourgoin and Biarritz swap their usual home grounds for larger stadiums. Bourgoin host Perpignan in Grenoble and it's a Basque bonanza in San Sebastian on Saturday as Biarritz take on Bayonne. We look at the clubs who have taken their show on the road

Since Stade Francais first played Toulouse at the Stade de France in October 2005, the Paris club's increasingly frequent visits to the national ground have been an unqualified success, both in terms of pulling in the fans and coming away with the points.

But the Parisians aren't the only Top 14 team to take their home games to new venues. Toulouse, Bourgoin and Biarritz have done so with varying degrees of success, Bayonne made an enforced move they'd rather not repeat before hosting a Basque party over the border, Toulon are promising their fans Marseilles away-days and Perpignan have been talking up the possibility of playing home games at larger football stadiums. We look at the ups and downs of homes from home.

Stade Francais - Kings of the road

The masters of the at-home away-day. Stade Francais’ Stade Jean-Bouin only holds 12,000 people, so the search for a larger venue has taken the club around the arenas of the capital city for both Top 14 and Heineken Cup matches. The club has played Leicester at Stade Charlety (winning 12-6 in 2005) and Newcastle and Sale at Parc des Princes (winning both), but it's their tenancy of Stade de France that has rewritten all the rules.

After putting 45,222 bums on Parc des Princes seats for their match with Toulouse in 2004/05, in October 2005 Max Guazzini announced that the visit of Toulouse would be played at the 80,000-seater St Denis stadium. He declared that the club would have to sell 25,000-30,000 tickets to break even, but three weeks before the match 61,000 tickets had been sold, and on the day of the game, a world club record 79,454 fans saw Paris win 29-15. Five minutes before the end of the game, with Paris leading 29-3, Guazzini announced to the crowd that the home fixutre with Biarritz in March 2006 would also be held at the Stade de France. Through clever marketing and low-priced tickets for the early oiseaux, the attendance record was broken again, with 79,604 coming through the turnstiles.

Later the same year, another visit by Biarritz saw 79,619 present. By now, Guazzini had hit on the idea of making the Stade de France matches gala events, handing out pink flags to the Paris supporters and bringing fireworks, pop music and dancing girls into the mix. Traditionalists frowned, but the Paris public voted with their feet, and another 122 people watched Le Bataille des Stades - Francais vs Toulousain - at St Denis in January 2007, breaking the record for the fourth time in succession with a crowd of 79,741.

The 2007/08 season kicked off with a repeat of the previous year's final as Paris took on Clermont. For once, they failed to set an attendance record as 'only' 75,620 showed up, but in March 2008 normal service was resumed when 79,779 saw the visit of Toulouse, and 79,544 watched Paris play Biarritz in early June.

Before last season, perhaps the most remarkable stat to emerge from Stade Francais' regular season matches at Stade de France is that the Paris club had won every regular season game they've played at the stadium. This record came to a sudden end in October 2008, when Toulouse trounced the Parisians 26-13 in their Top 14 clash. In December, fellow capital city unsightly shirt wearers, Harlequins, left Stade de France with a 15-10 victory, Perpignan gained two points with a 13-all draw in January, and Clermont completed a miserable Stade de France season for the club with a 21-19 victory in April. Not undeterred, Guazzini has booked the national stadium for five games in 2009/10, with Bayonne's fanatical supporters getting the VIP treatment alongside Perpignan, Biarritz, Toulouse and Clermont. And in a new departure for the club (presumably from Platform 4 of Gare du Nord), the team will play their Heineken Cup tie with Ulster at Brussels' King Baudoin Stadium, the 50,000-capacity arena formerly known as the Heysel Stadium.

Toulouse - Welcome to (le Petit) Wembley

Toulouse's association with the city's municipal stadium goes back to the days before an all-conquering Stade Francais were even a glimmer in Max Guazzini's glad-eye. As early as 1997, Toulouse played their Heineken Cup quarter-final against Harlequins at the 37,000-seater, winning 51-10 in front of a full house. They weren't as successful in their semi-final at the same venue, drawing 22-all with Brive but losing on try count.

The Stadium, on an island in the middle of the Garonne, has become an H-Cup fixture for Toulouse, with disappointing results. In 2000 they lost to Bath 14-19 in a group stage dead rubber, but the next year they lost 22-32 to Saracens and drew 35-all with Ulster at the Toulouse FC ground, two results that meant they missed out on the knockout stages for the first time.

The explosion at the nearby AZF fertilizer factory while Stade Ernest-Wallon was being renovated forced Toulouse to use the Stadium - known as Le Petit Wembley for its resemblance to the old London bowl with its poor sightlines and worse facilities - at a reduced capactity of 6,500 for the 2002 H-Cup wins over Newport and Leinster. When the ground was back to its full capacity in 2003, sell-out crowds cheered wins over Northampton and Munster on the way to their second cup victory. Since then, the Stadium has witnessed regular H-Cup matches, including a 19-13 group win over Wasps, the dramatic 35-41 defeat to Leinster in the quarter-final that year, and a 22-11 group win over Leicester and 41-17 defeat of Cardiff in 2007/08. This season's opening Heineken Cup match against Bath was another nail-biter, with David Skrela sealing an 18-16 win with the final kick of the match.

The Stadium has also seen plenty of Top 14 action, and Toulouse's 100 per cent domestic record is much better than their european exploits at the ground. Perpignan were duly despatched in the first home game of the 2004/05 season, a match that saw the Toulouse debut of Welsh captain Gareth Thomas. Since then Paris, Biarritz, Clermont and Montpellier have visited the Stadium to no avail, and last year Biarritz came away from the arena with a 20-6 defeat. The big ground may have been the graveyard of many of Toulouse's european dreams, but domestically it's still a good place to play, for now at least.

Toulon - On your Vélo, son

Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal sees his club as the star-studded Stade Francais of the south, and even before their promotion to the Top 14 last summer was promising supporters glamour trips to Marseilles' 58,000-seater Stade Vélodrome. At the start of last season Boudjellal said Toulon's home game with Toulouse on April 17-18 would be played in Marseilles, along with the visits of Biarritz in November and Perpignan in March, "Depending on their league positions at the time," he said.

But in September, Boudjellal suggested that the Toulouse match could be played at Monaco's 18,000-capacity Stade Louis II,claiming that Prince Albert was ready to give the club €1m to bring Top 14 rugby to the principality, but eventually the game was played in front of a sell-out crowd in Marseille, with Toulon winning 14-6.

This year, the Vélodrome was booked for the 'Clash of Cash' visit of Racing-Metro in August, and although the match had to be moved back to Stade Felix-Mayol after a fatal accident at the Marseilles ground, the club's September match with Toulouse will again be played at Olympique Marseilles' cathedral of football.

Biarritz - Basque border raiders

Although Biarritz have yet to host a Top 14 match away from their own Stade Aguilera, they have played four Heineken Cup matches at San Sebastian's Estadio Anoeta. The 32,000-seater is home to Spanish football side Real Sociedad, but is less than an hour's drive from Biarritz and matches there attract Basques from both sides of the border.

Unfortunately Biarritz have been far from convincing at their adoptive home. In the first Heineken Cup game to be played in Spain in April 2005, the Basques welcomed Munster to a sold-out Anoeta, and after taking a 16-0 half-time lead, allowed the Irishmen to stage a fightback but still held on for a 19-10 win and a place in the semi-finals.

The next season Biarritz played both their knockout games at Anoeta in front of full houses, stuttering through 11-6 against Sale and then winning a kicking contest 18-9 against Bath in the semi. But their Anoeta luck came to an end in the 2007 quarter-final against Northampton when, as overwhelming favourites against the bottom side in the English Premiership, they were a massive disappointment and lost 6-7 courtesy of an interception try by Saints centre Robbie Kydd.

This season, September's Basque derby will be played in front of a likely sell-out crowd at Anoeta.

Bourgoin - Full of Eastern promise

Bourgoin's tour of eastern France is largely seen as a recruitment drive, but there's no evidence that the home matches played away from their own Stade Pierre-Rajon have been any more successful off the pitch than they have on it.

Under pressure from ambitious Pro D2 upstarts Lyon to show that they were the biggest team in the Rhone-Alpes area, Bourgoin played Perpignan at Saint-Etienne’s football stadium, Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, in March 2006. Despite pulling 28,000 people into the stadium, Bourgoin lost 15-18 to the Catalans.

Bourgoin upped sticks twice in the 2006/07 season, playing two games away from Stade Pierre-Rajon. The first was for a Top 14 clash with nearest rivals Clermont Auvergne, again at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. 22,000 turned up to see Bourgoin lose 22-28 to les auvergnats.

A few months later they opted to go east to Geneva for their group game against Munster in January 2007, which is likely to remain the only Heineken Cup game ever played in Switzerland. and partly to cash in on Munster’s travelling support. This nearly backfired as the Irish supporters complained about having to travel so far for a Sunday game, with an online petition calling for the ERC and Sky TV to move the game back to Saturday “In the interest of fairness and decency”. A bit rich from supporters who would usually happily crawl naked over broken glass to watch eight men in red stick the ball up their jumpers, and 16,000 duly turned up to see Munster squeeze through 30-27 in the swiss rain.

Not deterred by the lack of success in their homes from home, Bourgoin played Stade Francais at Grenoble’s 20,000-seater Stade des Alpes in September. Sure enough, the Parisians came away 32-25 winners. This season, Bourgoin will play champions Perpignan will play Bourgoin in Grenoble on the weekend of September 11.

Bayonne - Putting off the Ritz

Bayonne hosted the first 'délocalisation' of 2009/10, inviting Stade Francais to play at Estadio Anoeta. The result was a Basque fête for the 28,000 supporters who made the short journey, as Bayonne beat the Parisians 38-24 on a balmy (and barmy) Friday night in August.

But it wasn't Bayonne's first foray away from the cauldron of Stade Jean-Dauger. Forced by circumstances rather than choice to play their first two home games of the 2006/07 season at Biarritz's Stade Aguilera while Jean-Dauger was being renovated, Bayonne showed all the enthusiasm of a muslim forced to pray at a synagogue during their sojourn at the home of their sworn enemies. Their two 'home' games at Aguilera ended in 9-20 defeats to Montauban and Perpignan, either side of an 'away' trip to the same ground, where they were thrashed 54-0 by their hosts. On their return to Jean-Dauger Bayonne beat Montpellier 25-20 to chalk up their first win of the season at the sixth attempt.

Perpignan - Barca bound?

Like Biarritz, Perpignan have long promised to forge ties with their Spanish compatriots by playing a big game across the border. Unlike Biarritz, USAP have never quite made it south, promising to play a Heineken Cup quarter-final in Barcelona every year since 2003, but never quite getting there. In 2008 ERC officials were scouting the Spanish city's Montjuic Olympic Stadium in preparation for a semi-final against Toulouse, but the vote went to Marseilles and in any case Perpignan’s quarter-final defeat to London Irish made it a moot point anyway. The club was talking about playing big games at Barcelona FC’s Nou Camp this season, although no dates have been confirmed, and so a home H-Cup quarter- or semi-final could be the only possibility.