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
← 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 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

Agen
Auch
Aurillac
Biarritz
Bègles-Bordeaux
Bourgoin
Brive
Castres
Colomiers
Dax
Grenoble
Montauban (promoted)

Preliminary Round

Pool 1

Pos	Team	Points
1	Toulouse	58
2	Stade Français	47
3	Colomiers	47
4	Dax	46
5	Brive	46
6	Perpignan	46
7	La Rochelle	45
8	Narbonne	43
9	FC Auch	41
10	Grenoble	41
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	-	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 Français	28–23	Colomiers
Try: Laussucq, Comba, Dominici Con: Dominguez Pen: Dominguez3		Try: N'Tamack, Culinat Con: Skrela 2 Pen: Skrela 3

Stade de France, Paris
Referee: Didier Mené

Stade Français: Sylvain Marconnet, Laurent Pedrosa, Pieter de Villiers, David Auradou, Hervé Chaffardon, Christophe Moni, Richard Pool-Jones, Christophe Juillet, Christophe Laussucq, Diego Dominguez, Nicolas Raffault, Cliff Mytton, Franck Comba, Christophe Dominici, Conrad Stoltz- Replacements : Fabrice Landreau, Darren George, Pierre Rabadan, Arthur Gomes, Justin Wring, Sylvain Jonnet, Jérémie Foissac
Colomiers : Stéphane Delpuech, Christophe Laurent, Jéremy Tomuli, Jean-Philippe Revallier, Jean-Marc Lorenzi, Bernard De Giusti, Patrick Tabacco, Francis N'Tamack, Fabrice Culinat, David Skrela, Benjamin Lhande, Jérôme Sieurac, Mickaël Carré, Sébastien Roque, Jean-Luc Sadourny – Replacements : Philippe Magendie, Marc Dal Maso, Hervé Manent, Laurent Marticorena, Stéphane Peysson, Stéphane Graou, Frédéric Pédoussaut

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