2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship

none France Toulouse 16 Montferrand Auch, Aurillac, Brive, Mont-de-Marsan, Périgueux e Grenoble 1999–00 2001–02 The 2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship was the top level of French club rugby in 2000–01. The competition was played by 21 teams. It was the last French season before the top level was reorganized into a 16-team league known as Top 16, now known as Top 14. In the first phase, two pools (one of 10 teams, one of 11) were played. The first 4 of each pool were admitted to the "top 8", the tournament for the title. The last two of the pool containing 10 teams, and the last three of the other, were relegated directly to the second division. The 8th team in each pool had a play-off to determine the sixth team relegated. Only one club was promoted from the second division in order to reduce the number of clubs for next session to 16. Toulouse won their 15th title, beating Montferrand in the final Preliminary phase Pool 1 main FBR grey AGE BEZ BOR BOU CAS MON PAU PRG PRP STF Agen 36–19 25–12 32–13 34–16 20–13 29–15 33–8 43–6 25–25 Béziers 26–18 57–7 12–16 24–13 47–29 33–23 56–10 21–25 33–20 Bègles-Bordeaux 26–18 28–25 14–26 27–34 26–17 17–13 35–18 33–10 30–38 Bourgoin 19–16 34–35 56–20 22–19 24–16 34–15 74–8 20–21 22–42 Castres 70–17 25–9 49–22 18–8 21–9 31–18 86–15 28–16 29–0 Mont-de-Marsan 18–19 12–23 23–15 18–14 16–20 26–21 41–11 27–15 20–37 Pau 29–18 30–16 16–35 38–17 18–16 28–3 43–7 22–29 21–6 Périgueux 13–47 34–47 20–21 9–10 12–18 27–22 23–25 20–30 21–26 Perpignan 30–28 26–9 33–15 28–16 23–28 45–17 31–25 83–12 32–33 Stade Français 27–22 28–23 55–19 18–18 34–37 68–10 33–27 79–11 55–9 complete main WDL QR points 3 2 1 CAS Castres STF Stade Français PRP Perpignan AGE Agen BEZ Béziers BOU Bourgoin BOR Bourdeaux-Begles PAU Pau MON Mont-de-Marsan PRG Périgueux 14 0 4 558 324 12 2 4 624 409 11 0 7 492 452 10 1 7 480 385 10 0 8 515 414 9 1 8 443 379 8 0 10 402 533 8 0 10 427 404 5 0 13 337 481 1 0 17 279 776 Bourdeaux-Begles classified 7th for better score in the direct matches with Pau #ccffcc Quarters of final QF QF QF QF #FFFFCC Relegation play-off QR #FFDFDF Relegated to second division R R complete Pool 2 main FBR grey AUC AUR BIA BRI COL DAX GRE ROC MON NAR TOU Auch 30–11 23–46 21–23 18–36 22–19 11–21 9–24 6–18 9–22 13–56 Aurillac 19–20 18–23 40–34 16–23 22–33 26–25 18–13 33–28 22–28 28–39 Biarritz 50–25 33–18 31–29 48–6 49–10 41–8 37–3 35–35 26–25 23–20 Brive 27–16 18–20 18–43 23–16 28–20 22–12 20–16 9–37 35–39 19–32 Colomiers 22–13 28–30 35–23 12–14 45–27 31–22 38–20 30–10 27–19 20–32 Dax 17–16 45–17 23–12 34–19 21–17 19–16 20–10 9–8 9–21 15–10 Grenoble 27–18 33–19 15–6 29–16 31–23 41–14 17–15 18–24 43–6 15–28 La Rochelle 35–13 27–15 17–21 40–19 24–18 25–19 21–8 26–36 49–42 19–18 Montferrand 66–17 22–43 37–19 46–35 16–5 37–10 30–18 67–7 32–27 28–15 Narbonne 44–10 31–25 32–20 9–12 19–21 49–33 59–17 56–21 18–27 25–31 Toulouse 39–10 44–24 11–8 50–19 24–21 42–22 50–12 46–22 24–29 50–8 complete main WDL QR points 3 2 1 MON Montferrand TOU Toulouse BIA Biarritz COL Colomiers NAR Narbonne DAX Dax ROC La Rochelle GRE Grenoble BRI Brive AUR Aurillac AUC Auch 15 1 4 633 404 15 0 5 661 380 13 1 6 594 408 10 0 10 474 450 10 0 10 579 519 10 0 10 419 506 9 0 11 434 537 9 0 11 428 479 8 0 12 439 563 7 0 13 464 577 3 0 17 320 615 Colomiers classified 4th for better score in the direct matches with Narbonne and Dax La Rochelle classified 7th for better score in the direct matches with Grenoble #ccffcc Quarters of final QF QF QF QF #FFFFCC Relegation play-off QR #FFDFDF Relegated to second division R R R complete Quarters of final QUARTERS OF FINAL 25 MayCastres-Colomiers37–2625 MayToulouse-Perpignan20–1525 MayStade Français-Biarritz19–3525 MayMontferrand-Agen33–21 Semifinals SEMIFINALS 2 jun.Castres-Toulouse21–32Stadium, Toulouse2 jun.Biarritz-Montferrand9–16Stade Gerland, Lyon Final 9 June 2001 Toulouse 34 – 22 Montferrand Marfaing Marfaing Michalak (4)Marfaing (2) Delaigue (3) Audebert Merceron Merceron (5) Stade de France, Saint-Denis Gérard Borréani FB 15FRA Nicolas JeanjeanRW 14FRA Xavier Garbajosa OC 13FRA Cédric Desbrosse 76IC 12FRA Clément Poitrenaud 80LW 11FRA Michel MarfaingFH 10FRA Yann Delaigue SH 9 FRA Frédéric Michalak N8 8 FRA Fabien Pelous (c)OF 7 FRA Christian Labit 76BF 6 FRA Jean Bouilhou RL 5 FRA David Gérard 73LL 4 FRA Hugues Miorin 61TP 3 FRA Franck Tournaire HK 2 FRA Yannick Bru LP 1 FRA Christian Califano 58Substitutions:PR 16FRA Cédric Soulette 58LK 17FRA Franck Belot 73 FL 18FRA Didier Lacroix 76N8 19FRA Sylvain Dispagne 61SH 20FRA Jérôme Cazalbou FH 21FRA Alain Penaud 80FB 22FRA Stéphane Ougier 76Coach:FRA Guy Novès FB 15FRA Jimmy Marlu RW 14FRA Aurélien Rougerie 80+6OC 13TGA Johnny Ngauamo 55 IC 12FRA Nicolas Nadau LW 11FRA David BoryFH 10FRA Gérald Merceron SH 9 ITA Alessandro Troncon N8 8 RSA Selborne Boome OF 7 FRA Olivier Magne BF 6 FRA Alexandre Audebert RL 5 FRA Éric Lecomte (c) LL 4 FRA David Barrier 67 TP 3 FRA Alessio Galasso HK 2 FRA Yves Pedrosa 72 LP 1 FRA Abraham Tolofua 77 Substitutions:HK 16AUS Marco Caputo 72PR 17SAM Brendan Reidy 77FL 18CZE Jan Macháček 67FL 19FRA Christophe Dongieu SH 20USA Kevin Dalzell FH 21FRA Éric Nicol 80+6FB 22FRA Sébastien Viars 55Coach:FRA Christophe Mombet Relegation play-off 25 MayPau-FC Grenoble33 – 21 o.t. 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