1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship

1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship
Countries  France
Champions Stade Français (10th title)
Runners-up Colomiers
Relegated Montauban, Toulon, Racing Paris, Nîmes

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 in the final the Colomiers (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

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 Mountauban 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 10 millions French Francs default, 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-Biarritz24–37
24 jun.Agen-Perpignan32–33
24 jun.Colomiers-Bourgoin20–18
24 jun.Montferrand-Brive41–23

Quarter of finals

1 jul.Biarritz-Tolosa18–28 o.t.
1 jul.Stade Français-Perpignan25–15
1 jul.Pau-Montferrand28–27
1 jul.Castres-Colomiers15–29

Semifinals

8 jul.Toulose-Stade Français13–30
8 jul.Pau-Colomiers22–24

Final

15 July 2000
Stade Français 28 – 23 Colomiers
Try: Dominici
Laussucq
Comba
Con: Dominguez (2)
Pen: Dominguez (3)
Try: Ntamack
Culinat
Con: Skrela
Marticorena
Pen: Skrela (3)
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Referee: Didier Mené
FB 15South Africa Conrad Stoltz
RW 14France Christophe Dominici
OC 13France Franck Comba
IC 12New Zealand Cliff Mytton
LW 11France Nicolas Raffault
FH 10Italy Diego Dominguez
SH 9 France Christophe Laussucq
N8 8 France Christophe Juillet (c)
OF 7 England Richard Pool-Jones
BF 6 France Christophe Moni  63'
RL 5 France Hervé Chaffardon  78'
LL 4 France David Auradou
TP 3 France Pieter de Villiers  80+3'
HK 2 France Laurent Pedrosa  46'
LP 1 France Sylvain Marconnet
Substitutions:
HK 16France Fabrice Landreau  46'
PR 17England Justin Wring  80+3'
LK 18New Zealand Darren George  63'
FL 19France Pierre Rabadan  78'  80+3'
SH 20France Jérémie Foissac
FB 21France Sylvain Jonnet
FB 22France Arthur Gomes  80+3'
Coach:
no head coach
FB 15France Jean-Luc Sadourny (c)
RW 14France Sébastien Roque
OC 13France Mickaël Carré
IC 12France Jérôme Sieurac  53'
LW 11France Benjamin Lhande
FH 10France David Skrela
SH 9 France Fabrice Culinat
N8 8 France Francis Ntamack
OF 7 France Patrick Tabacco
BF 6 France Bernard de Giusti  28'
RL 5 France Jean-Marc Lorenzi  63'
LL 4 France Jean-Philippe Revallier  49'
TP 3 Samoa Jeremy Tomuli  45'
HK 2 France Christophe Laurent  49'
LP 1 France Stéphane Delpuech
Substitutions:
HK 16France Marc Dal Maso  49'
PR 17France Stéphane Graou  45'
FL 18France Philippe Magendie  28'
FL 19France Hervé Manent  49'
N8 20France Stéphane Peysson  63'
SH 21France Frédéric Pédoussaut
CE 22France Laurent Marticorena  53'
Coach:
France Henri Auriol
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