1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship

none August 2026 France Stade Français 10 Colomiers Montauban, Toulon, Racing Paris, Nîmes 1998–99 2000–01 The 1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship was played by 24 teams divided in the preliminary phase in two pool of 12. The first two team of each pool were directly admitted to the quarter-finals. The team classified from 3rd to 6th of each pool were admitted to a Barrage round. The four winners were admitted also to the quarter of finals. Stade Français won the title beating Colomiers in the finalhttps://www.espn.com/rugby/story/_/id/15345834/stade-win-french-championship Stade win French Championship ESPN 16 July 2000 9 August 2026 (at the first final of their history). It was the second victory for the Stade Français in the professional era. Ath the end of the season four team were relegated to lower division: Montauban, Toulon, Racing Paris, Nîmes. There was only one promotion from second division, (Béziers), in order to reduce to 21 the number of clubs in first division in 1999–2000, and 16 in the 2000–01 season. Teams Participating Agen Auch Aurillac Biarritz Bègles-Bordeaux Bourgoin Brive Castres Colomiers Dax Grenoble Montauban (promoted) Montferrand Narbonne Nîmes Périgueux Perpignan Racing club de France Pau Stade Français Mont-de-Marsan (promoted) La Rochelle Toulon Toulouse Preliminary round Pool 1 Pos Team Points 1 Toulouse 58 2 Stade Français 47 3 Colomiers 47 4 Dax 46 5 Brive46 6 Perpignan 46 7 La Rochelle 45 8 Narbonne 43 9 FC Auch 41 10 Grenoble41 11 Aurillac 38 12 US Montauban 28 Pool 2 Pos Team Points 1 Castres olympique 54 2 Section paloise 54 3 SU Agen 53 4 AS Montferrand 50 5 CS Bourgoin-Jallieu 48 6 Biarritz olympique 48 7 CA Bègles-Bordeaux 48 8 Stade montois 44 9 RC Toulon 43 10 CA Périgueux 36 11 Racing club de France 28 12 RC Nîmes 22 To Quarter of finals To barrage for title To barrage for relegation relegated to second division Because of a default of 10 million French francs, the Ligue Nationale de Rugby relegated the June 24, 2000 the RC Toulon in the second division. A Barrage match was arranged between Aurillac and Racing Paris. It was won by Aurillac, that remain in first division. Barrage 24 jun.Dax-Biarritz24–3724 jun.Agen-Perpignan32–3324 jun.Colomiers-Bourgoin20–1824 jun.Montferrand-Brive41–23 Quarter of finals 1 jul.Biarritz-Toulouse18–28 o.t.1 jul.Stade Français-Perpignan25–151 jul.Pau-Montferrand28–271 jul.Castres-Colomiers15–29 Semifinals 8 jul.Toulouse-Stade Français13–308 jul.Pau-Colomiers22–24 Final 15 July 2000 Stade Français 28 – 23 Colomiers DominiciLaussucqComba Dominguez (2) Dominguez (3) NtamackCulinat SkrelaMarticorena Skrela (3) Stade de France, Saint-Denis Didier Mené FB 15RSA Conrad StoltzRW 14FRA Christophe Dominici OC 13FRA Franck Comba IC 12NZL Cliff Mytton LW 11FRA Nicolas Raffault FH 10ITA Diego Dominguez SH 9 FRA Christophe Laussucq N8 8 FRA Christophe Juillet (c)OF 7 ENG Richard Pool-Jones BF 6 FRA Christophe Moni 63RL 5 FRA Hervé Chaffardon 78 LL 4 FRA David Auradou TP 3 FRA Pieter de Villiers 80+3 HK 2 FRA Laurent Pedrosa 46 LP 1 FRA Sylvain Marconnet Substitutions:HK 16FRA Fabrice Landreau 46PR 17ENG Justin Wring 80+3LK 18NZL Darren George 63FL 19FRA Pierre Rabadan 78 80+3 SH 20FRA Jérémie Foissac FB 21FRA Sylvain Jonnet FB 22FRA Arthur Gomes 80+3Coach:no head coach FB 15FRA Jean-Luc Sadourny (c)RW 14FRA Sébastien Roque OC 13FRA Mickaël Carré IC 12FRA Jérôme Sieurac 53LW 11FRA Benjamin LhandeFH 10FRA David Skrela SH 9 FRA Fabrice Culinat N8 8 FRA Francis Ntamack OF 7 FRA Patrick Tabacco BF 6 FRA Bernard de Giusti 28RL 5 FRA Jean-Marc Lorenzi 63LL 4 FRA Jean-Philippe Revallier 49TP 3 SAM Jeremy Tomuli 45HK 2 FRA Christophe Laurent 49LP 1 FRA Stéphane Delpuech Substitutions:HK 16FRA Marc Dal Maso 49PR 17FRA Stéphane Graou 45FL 18FRA Philippe Magendie 28FL 19FRA Hervé Manent 49N8 20FRA Stéphane Peysson 63SH 21FRA Frédéric Pédoussaut CE 22FRA Laurent Marticorena 53Coach:FRA Henri Auriol References French Rugby Championship Category:French rugby union championship Championship