Jump to content

1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by MYS77 (talk | contribs) at 03:27, 29 December 2020 (Moved page.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship
Countries France
ChampionsStade Français (10th title)
Runners-upColomiers
RelegatedMontauban, 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

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 - Biarritz 24–37
24 jun. Agen - Perpignan 32–33
24 jun. Colomiers - Bourgoin 20–18
24 jun. Montferrand - Brive 41–23

Quarter of finals

1 jul. Biarritz - Tolosa 18–28 o.t.
1 jul. Stade Français - Perpignan 25–15
1 jul. Pau - Montferrand 28–27
1 jul. Castres - Colomiers 15–29

Semifinals

8 jul. Toulose - Stade Français 13–30
8 jul. Pau - Colomiers 22–24

Final

15 July 2000
Stade Français28 – 23Colomiers
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 15 South Africa Conrad Stoltz
RW 14 France Christophe Dominici
OC 13 France Franck Comba
IC 12 New Zealand Cliff Mytton
LW 11 France Nicolas Raffault
FH 10 Italy Diego Dominguez
SH 9 France Christophe Laussucq
N8 8 France Christophe Juillet (c)
OF 7 England Richard Pool-Jones
BF 6 France Christophe Moni downward-facing red arrow 63'
RL 5 France Hervé Chaffardon downward-facing red arrow 78'
LL 4 France David Auradou
TP 3 France Pieter de Villiers downward-facing red arrow 80+3'
HK 2 France Laurent Pedrosa downward-facing red arrow 46'
LP 1 France Sylvain Marconnet
Substitutions:
HK 16 France Fabrice Landreau upward-facing green arrow 46'
PR 17 England Justin Wring upward-facing green arrow 80+3'
LK 18 New Zealand Darren George upward-facing green arrow 63'
FL 19 France Pierre Rabadan upward-facing green arrow 78' downward-facing red arrow 80+3'
SH 20 France Jérémie Foissac
FB 21 France Sylvain Jonnet
FB 22 France Arthur Gomes upward-facing green arrow 80+3'
Coach:
no head coach
FB 15 France Jean-Luc Sadourny (c)
RW 14 France Sébastien Roque
OC 13 France Mickaël Carré
IC 12 France Jérôme Sieurac downward-facing red arrow 53'
LW 11 France Benjamin Lhande
FH 10 France David Skrela
SH 9 France Fabrice Culinat
N8 8 France Francis Ntamack
OF 7 France Patrick Tabacco
BF 6 France Bernard de Giusti downward-facing red arrow 28'
RL 5 France Jean-Marc Lorenzi downward-facing red arrow 63'
LL 4 France Jean-Philippe Revallier downward-facing red arrow 49'
TP 3 Samoa Jeremy Tomuli downward-facing red arrow 45'
HK 2 France Christophe Laurent downward-facing red arrow 49'
LP 1 France Stéphane Delpuech
Substitutions:
HK 16 France Marc Dal Maso upward-facing green arrow 49'
PR 17 France Stéphane Graou upward-facing green arrow 45'
FL 18 France Philippe Magendie upward-facing green arrow 28'
FL 19 France Hervé Manent upward-facing green arrow 49'
N8 20 France Stéphane Peysson upward-facing green arrow 63'
SH 21 France Frédéric Pédoussaut
CE 22 France Laurent Marticorena upward-facing green arrow 53'
Coach:
France Henri Auriol