2003–04 Top 16 season

2003–04 Top 16 season
Countries	France
Champions	Stade Français (12th title)
Runners-up	USA Perpignan
Relegated	US Colomiers and US Montauban
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

The 2003-04 Top 16 season was the top level of French club rugby in 2003-05. The competition was played by 16 teams. In the first stage, two pools of 8 played. The first 4 of each pool were admitted to the "top 8" to play for the title, the other 4 to a relegation tournament.

First round

(3 point for a win, 2 point for a draw, 1 point for a lose)

Pool A

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Bourgoin	14	9	0	5	352	280	+72	32
2	Brive	14	8	1	6	357	301	+56	31
3	Castres	14	8	1	5	297	281	+16	31
4	Stade Français	14	7	0	7	299	263	+36	28
5	Agen	14	7	0	7	292	268	+23	28
6	Pau	14	6	1	7	281	343	-62	27
7	Montferrand	14	5	1	8	226	278	-52	25
8	Colomiers	14	4	0	10	238	327	-89	22

Pool B

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Toulouse	14	10	0	4	371	319	+54	34
2	Perpignan	14	9	0	5	357	284	+73	32
3	Biarritz	14	8	0	6	335	273	+62	30
4	Béziers	14	8	0	6	274	275	-1	30
5	Montpellier	14	6	0	8	285	288	-3	26
6	Narbonne	14	6	0	8	296	303	-37	26
7	Grenoble	14	5	0	9	306	362	-56	24
8	Montauban	14	4	0	10	216	336	-120	22

Relegation Pool

The teams total sum of the points obtained in the first round and the points obtained in the matches played with the 4 teams from the other group (home and away).

Clubs	AGE	COL	GRE	MTB	MFR	MPL	NAR	PAU
SU Agen			12-16	22-0		44-3	43-21
US Colomiers			25-16	9-9		25-32	70-19
FC Grenoble	19-19	26-10			15-26			40-29
US Montauban	32-10	19-23			19-22			46-12
Montferrand			44-3	47-10		34-7	45-14
Montpellier	33-14	27-18			26-13			34-7
RC Narbonne	43-35	38-16			28-19			29-18
Pau			81-17	34-23		16-0	68-26

Home victory

Drawn

Home losses

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Montferrand	22	11	1	10	476	400	+76	45
2	Montpellier	22	11	0	11	457	459	-2	44
3	Agen	22	10	1	11	491	436	+55	43
4	Pau	22	10	1	11	546	558	-12	43
5	Narbonne	22	10	0	12	514	617	-113	42
6	FC Grenoble	22	8	1	13	458	408	-150	39
7	Clomiers	22	7	1	14	434	513	-79	37
8	Montauban	22	6	1	15	374	515	-141	35

Top 8

Two Pool of 4 teams. The first two of each pool were qualified for semifinals. Them and the third also qualified for 2004–05 Heineken Cup

Pool A

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	USA Perpignan	6	5	0	1	170	74	+96	16
2	CS Bourgoin-Jallieu	6	3	0	34	147	137	+10	12
3	Castres Olympique	6	3	0	3	130	126	+4	12
4	AS Béziers	6	1	0	5	75	185	-110	8

Pool B

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Stade Français	6	4	0	2	151	100	+51	14
2	Tolouse	6	4	0	2	136	133	+3	14
3	Biarritz	6	3	0	3	149	107	+42	12
4	Brive	6	1	0	5	82	178	-96	8

Semifinals

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Final

Perpignan: Nicolas Mas, Michel Konieck, Perry Freshwater, Colin Gaston, Christophe Porcu, Grégory Le Corvec, Bernard Goutta, Rimas Álvarez Kairelis, Ludovic Loustau, Manuel Edmonds, Dan Luger, Christophe Manas, David Marty, Pascal Bomati, Diego Giannantonio- Replacements : Nicolas Grelon, Alessandro Moreno, Mick O'Driscoll, Scott Robertson, Jérôme Fillol, David Janin, Nicolas Laharrague

Stade Français: Sylvain Marconnet, Mathieu Blin, Pieter de Villiers, David Auradou, Mike James, Pierre Rabadan, Mauro Bergamasco, Patrick Tabacco, Agustín Pichot, Diego Dominguez, Christophe Dominici, Brian Liebenberg, Stéphane Glas, Juan Martín Hernández, Ignacio Corleto- Replacements : Benoît August, Pablo Lemoine, Arnaud Marchois, Christophe Moni, Grégory Mahé, David Skrela, Thomas Lombard

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See also

• 2003-04 Rugby Pro D2
• 2003-04 Heineken Cup

External links

• LNR.fr

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