1997–98 French Rugby Union Championship

1997–98 French Rugby Union Championship
Countries	France
Champions	Stade Français (9th title)
Runners-up	Montferrand
Relegated	Montpellier
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

The 1997–1998 French Rugby Union Championship was played by 20 teams divided in the preliminary phase in two pools of 12. The first four team of each pool were admitted to quarters of final.

Stade Français won the title beating in the final the Montferrand (that lose for 5th time the final). It was the first victory for Stade Français after 90 years, the last was in 1908.

For the first time, the final was played in the new Stade de Frace

Montpellier was relegated in second division. Five team was promoted from the second division in order to increase to 24 the team participating to 1998–99 championship.

Preliminary Phase

Pool 1

Pos	Team	Points
1	Stade toulousain	46
2	US Colomiers	43
3	RC Narbonne	42
4	Montferrand	40
5	Brive	37
6	Biarritz	36
7	Dax	34
8	Béziers	32
9	La Rochelle	28
10	Nice	22

Pool 2

Pos	Club	Points
1	Stade Français	43
2	Perpignan	43
3	Bègles-Bordeaux	43
4	Castres	42
5	Pau	39
6	Bourgoin	37
7	Agen	37
8	Toulon	35
9	Grenoble	23
10	Montpellier	18

Quarters of final

may '98	Bourdeaux-Begles	-	Stade Français	31–26	18–24
may '98	Montferrand	-	Toulouse	19–10	9–22
may '98	Castres	-	Perpignan	25–19	7–42
may '98	Castres	-	Colomiers	19–19	8–8

Semifinali

may '98	Stade Français	-	Toulouse	39–3
may '98	Perpignan	-	Colomiers	15–12

Final

16 May 1998

Stade Français	34–7	Perpignan
Try: Simon, Bolbolo, Mytton Dominici and Gomes Con: Dominguez 3 Pen: Dominguez		Try: Perarnau Con: Arandiga

Stade de France, Paris
Referee: Joël Dumé

Stade Français: Serge Simon, Vincent Moscato, Philippe Gimbert, David Auradou, Hervé Chaffardon, Marc Lièvremont, Richard Pool-Jones, Christophe Juillet, Christophe Laussucq, Diego Dominguez, Emori Bolobolo, Cliff Mytton, Franck Comba, Christophe Dominici, Arthur Gomes – Replacements: Grant Ross, Sylvain Marconnet, Geoffrey Abadie, Olivier Roumat, Christophe Moni, Laurent Pedrosa, Ludovic Loustau
Perpignan : Renaud Peillard, Jacques Lançon, Stéphane de Bésombes, Jérôme Pradal, Mike James, Sylvain Deroeux, Gérard Majoral, Thomas Lièvremont, Jacques Basset, Laurent Salies, Grégory Tutard, Mathieu Barrau, Didier Plana, Alewyn Joubert, Gérald Bastide- Replacements: Michel Konieck, Pascal Meya, Gaël Arandiga, Christophe Perarnau, Alain Fourny, Hervé Laporte, Olivier Olibeau

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2014–15 Teams	Bayonne Bordeaux Brive Castres Clermont Grenoble La Rochelle Lyon Montpellier Oyonnax Racing Métro Stade Français Toulon Toulouse

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