2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship

2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship
Countries	France
Champions	Toulouse (15th title)
Runners-up	Montferrand
Relegated	Auch, Aurillac, Brive, Mont-de-Marsan, Périgueux e Grenoble
← 1999–00 2001–02 →

The 2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship was the top level of French club rugby in 2000–01. The competition was played by 21 teams. It was the last French season before the top level was reorganized into a 16-team league known as Top 16, now known as Top 14.

In the first phase, two pools (one of 10 teams, one of 11) were played. The first 4 of each pool were admitted to the "top 8", the tournament for the title.

The last two of the pool containing 10 teams, and the last three of the other, were relegated directly to the second division. The 8th team in each pool had a play-off to determine the sixth team relegated. Only one club was promoted from the second division in order to reduce the number of clubs for next session to 16.

Toulouse won their 15th title, beating Montferrand in the final

Preliminary phase

Pool 1

Clubs	AGE	BEZ	BOR	BOU	CAS	MON	PAU	PRG	PRP	STF
Agen		36–19	25–12	32–13	34–16	20–13	29–15	33–8	43–6	25–25
Béziers	26–18		57–7	12–16	24–13	47–29	33–23	56–10	21–25	33–20
Bègles-Bordeaux	26–18	28–25		14–26	27–34	26–17	17–13	35–18	33–10	30–38
Bourgoin	19–16	34–35	56–20		22–19	24–16	34–15	74–8	20–21	22–42
Castres	70–17	25–9	49–22	18–8		21–9	31–18	86–15	28–16	29–0
Mont-de-Marsan	18–19	12–23	23–15	18–14	16–20		26–21	41–11	27–15	20–37
Pau	29–18	30–16	16–35	38–17	18–16	28–3		43–7	22–29	21–6
Périgueux	13–47	34–47	20–21	9–10	12–18	27–22	23–25		20–30	21–26
Perpignan	30–28	26–9	33–15	28–16	23–28	45–17	31–25	83–12		32–33
Stade Français	27–22	28–23	55–19	18–18	34–37	68–10	33–27	79–11	55–9

Victory at home

Tie

Loss at home

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Castres	18	14	0	4	558	324	234	46
2	Stade Français	18	12	2	4	624	409	215	44
3	Perpignan	18	11	0	7	492	452	40	40
4	Agen	18	10	1	7	480	385	95	39
5	Béziers	18	10	0	8	515	414	101	38
6	Bourgoin	18	9	1	8	443	379	64	37
7	Bourdeaux-Begles (*)	18	8	0	10	402	533	−131	34
8	Pau	18	8	0	10	427	404	23	34
9	Mont-de-Marsan	18	5	0	13	337	481	−144	28
10	Périgueux	18	1	0	17	279	776	−497	20

Bourdeaux-Begles classified 7th for better score in the direct matches with Pau

To Quarter of finals

To barrage for relegation

relegated to second division

Pool 2

Clubs	AUC	AUR	BIA	BRI	COL	DAX	GRE	ROC	MON	NAR	TOU
Auch		30–11	23–46	21–23	18–36	22–19	11–21	9–24	6–18	9–22	13–56
Aurillac	19–20		18–23	40–34	16–23	22–33	26–25	18–13	33–28	22–28	28–39
Biarritz	50–25	33–18		31–29	48–6	49–10	41–8	37–3	35–35	26–25	23–20
Brive	27–16	18–20	18–43		23–16	28–20	22–12	20–16	9–37	35–39	19–32
Colomiers	22–13	28–30	35–23	12–14		45–27	31–22	38–20	30–10	27–19	20–32
Dax	17–16	45–17	23–12	34–19	21–17		19–16	20–10	9–8	9–21	15–10
Grenoble	27–18	33–19	15–6	29–16	31–23	41–14		17–15	18–24	43–6	15–28
La Rochelle	35–13	27–15	17–21	40–19	24–18	25–19	21–8		26–36	49–42	19–18
Montferrand	66–17	22–43	37–19	46–35	16–5	37–10	30–18	67–7		32–27	28–15
Narbonne	44–10	31–25	32–20	9–12	19–21	49–33	59–17	56–21	18–27		25–31
Toulouse	39–10	44–24	11–8	50–19	24–21	42–22	50–12	46–22	24–29	50–8

Victory at home

Tie

Loss at home

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Montferrand	20	15	1	4	633	404	229	51
2	Toulouse	20	15	0	5	661	380	281	50
3	Biarritz	20	13	1	6	594	408	186	47
4	Colomiers(**)	20	10	0	10	474	450	24	40
5	Narbonne	20	10	0	10	579	519	60	40
6	Dax	20	10	0	10	419	506	−87	40
7	La Rochelle(***)	20	9	0	11	434	537	−103	38
8	Grenoble	20	9	0	11	428	479	−51	38
9	Brive	20	8	0	12	439	563	−124	36
10	Aurillac	20	7	0	13	464	577	−113	34
11	Auch	20	3	0	17	320	615	−295	26

(**) Colomiers classified 4th for better score in the direct matches with Narbonne and Dax

(***)La Rochelle classified 7th for better score in the direct matches with Grenoble

To Quarter of finals

To barrage for relegation

relegated to second division

Quarters of final

QUARTERS OF FINAL
25 may	Castres	-	Colomiers	37–26
25 may	Toulouse	-	Perpignan	20–15
25 may	Stade Français	-	Biarritz	19–35
25 may	Montferrand	-	Agen	33–21

Semifinals

SEMIFINALS
2 jun.	Castres	-	Toulouse	21–32	Stadium, Toulouse
2 jun.	Biarritz	-	Montferrand	9–16	Stade Gerland, Lyon

Final

9 June 2001

Toulouse	34–22	Montferrand
Try: Marfaing Con: Marfaing Pen: Marfaing 2, Michalak 4 Drop: Delaigue 3		Try: Audebert Con: Merceron Pen: Merceron 5

Stade de France, Paris
Referee: Gérard Borreani

Toulouse: Christian Califano, Yannick Bru, Franck Tournaire, Hugues Miorin, David Gérard, Jean Bouilhou, Christian Labit, Fabien Pelous, Frédéric Michalak, Yann Delaigue, Michel Marfaing, Clément Poitrenaud, Cédric Desbrosse, Xavier Garbajosa, Nicolas Jeanjean – Replacements : Stéphane Ougier, Alain Penaud, Didier Lacroix, Franck Belot, Sylvain Dispagne, Cédric Soulette, Jérôme Cazalbou
Montferrand : Abraham Tolofua, Yves Pedrosa, Alessio Galasso, David Barrier, Éric Lecomte, Alexandre Audebert, Olivier Magne, Selborne Boome, Alessandro Troncon, Gérald Merceron, David Bory, Nicolas Nadau, Johnny Ngauamo, Aurélien Rougerie, Jimmy Marlu – Replacements : Sébastien Viars, Jan Machacek, Marco Caputo, Brendan Reidy, Éric Nicol, Christophe Dongieu, Kevin Dalzell

Relegation Play-off

25 may

Pau

FC Grenoble

33 – 21 o.t.

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