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1998–99 French Rugby Union Championship

The 1998–99 French Rugby Union Championship was played by 24 teams divided in the preliminary phase into three pools of 8. The first five teams from each pool and the best 6th placed were admitted to second round. The other played a relegation tournament divided in two pools.

1998–99 French Rugby Union Championship
Countries France
ChampionsToulouse (15th title)
Runners-upMontferrand
RelegatedNice, Béziers

Toulouse won the title, beating Montferrand in the final (that lose for 6th time the final).

First round edit

Pool 1 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Stade Français 34
2 Biarritz 34
3 Narbonne 32
4 Castres 32
5 Bourgoin 29
6 Toulon 28
7 Aurillac 21
8 Nîmes 14

Pool 2 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Perpignan 34
2 Montferrand 33
3 Agen 32
4 Dax 31
5 Bègles-Bordeaux 29
6 Béziers 28
7 Auch 20
8 Nice 17

Pool 3 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Toulouse 38
2 Brive 36
3 Pau 33
4 Grenoble 30
5 Colomiers 26
6 Périgueux 23
7 Racing Paris 20
8 La Rochelle 18

Béziers and Toulon had both 28 points. The "best 6th" was Toulon due to having less "red Cards" during the season.

Second round edit

The first of each pools were qualified to quarter of finals

Pool 1 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Toulouse 15
2 Bourgoin 13
3 Biarritz 10
4 Agen 10

Pool 2 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Colomiers 16
2 Stade Français 12
3 Narbonne 10
4 Pau 10

Pool 3 edit

Pos Team Points
1 CA Bègles-Bordeaux 14
2 Castres 14
3 Perpignan 12
4 Dax 8

Pool 4 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Montferrand 14
2 Grenoble 12
3 Toulon 12
4 Brive 10

Grenoble was 2nd due to having less "red cards" during the season .

Quarters of final edit

15 may Bordeaux-Begles - Bourgoin 8–14
15 may Toulouse - Stade Français 51–19
16 may Montferrand - Castres 28–27
16 may Colomiers - Grenoble 15–29

Semifinals edit

22 may Montferrand - Grenoble 26–17
22 may Toulouse - Bourgoin 26–17

Final edit

29 May 1999
Toulouse15 – 11Montferrand
Try: Stensness
Desbrosse
Con: Marfaing
Pen: Marfaing		Try: Nadau
Pen: Merceron (2)
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Referee: Gérard Borréani
FB 15   Stéphane Ougier
RW 14   Xavier Garbajosa
OC 13   Cédric Desbrosse   72'
IC 12   Émile Ntamack
LW 11   Michel Marfaing
FH 10   Lee Stensness
SH 9   Jérôme Cazalbou
N8 8   Sylvain Dispagne   39'
OF 7   Christian Labit   77'
BF 6   Didier Lacroix
RL 5   Franck Belot (c)
LL 4   Fabien Pelous
TP 3   Franck Tournaire   72'
HK 2   Yannick Bru
LP 1   Christian Califano
Substitutions:
HK 16   Patrick Soula
PR 17   Jean-Louis Jordana   72'
LK 18   Hugues Miorin   39'
FL 19   Matthieu Lièvremont   77'
SH 20   Jérôme Fillol
FH 21   Christophe Deylaud
CE 22   Pierre Bondouy   72'
Coach:
  Guy Novès
FB 15   Nicolas Nadau   78'
RW 14   Jimmy Marlu
OC 13   Jérôme Morante
IC 12   Tony Marsh
LW 11   David Bory
FH 10   Gérald Merceron   67'
SH 9   Stéphane Castaignède   80+3'
N8 8   David Courteix
OF 7   Jean-Marc Lhermet (c)   67'
BF 6   Arnaud Costes
RL 5   Christophe Sarraute   59'
LL 4   David Barrier
TP 3   Fabrice Heyer
HK 2   Olivier Azam   67'
LP 1   Emmanuel Menieu   80+1'
Substitutions:
HK 16   Patrick Laurent-Varange   67'
PR 17   Christophe Duchêne   80+1'
LK 18   Olivier Merle   59'
FL 19   Jérôme Bonvoisin   67'
SH 20   Christophe Larrue   80+3'
FH 21   Éric Nicol   67'
FB 22   Olivier Toulouze   78'
Coach:
  Christophe Mombet

Relegation Pools edit

Pool 1 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Auch 14
2 Racing Paris 14
3 Nîmes 10
4 Béziers 10

Béziers was classified last for worst point difference in the direct matches (Nîmes-Béziers 15–5 ; 36–37), and was relegated in Pro D2.

Pool 2 edit

Pos Team Points
1 Aurillac 15
2 Périgueux 11
3 La Rochelle 9
4 Nice 5

(ranking after 5 on 6)

RC Nice was relegated in Pro D2.

References edit

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