Mourad Boudjellal (born 5 June 1960) is a French businessman, founder of Soleil Productions comic publishing and sport manager.
In 2006, Boudjellal brought RC Toulonnais, the rugby team of his hometown, to prominence[1] by bringing in big-name players such as Sonny Bill Williams[2][3] and Tana Umaga, and later others including Steffon Armitage, Matt Giteau, Mathieu Bastareaud, Bakkies Botha and Jonny Wilkinson.
This has led British rugby commentator Martin Gillingham to call Toulon a "band of galacticos" (a reference to Real Madrid's galáctico policy).
Most notably, he was sentenced to 130-days ban from Top 14 organizer LNR for the following "imaged" outburst after Toulon lost a match against Clermont-Ferrand in January 2012:[6]« I had my first referee sodomy against Clermont in the semi-finals in 2010.
»[7]In February 2021, Boudjellal signed a takeover deal for French fourth division football team Hyères FC.