1994–95 French Rugby Union Championship

1994–95 French Rugby Union Championship
1994–95 French Rugby Union Championship
Countries	France
Champions	Toulouse (12th title)
Runners-up	Castres
Relegated	Auch, Châteaurenard, Graulhet, Périgueux, Tarbes, Saint-Paul les Dax, Biarritz, Avenir Valencien, Cannes, Stade Bordelais, Dijon and Tyrosse
	← 1993–94 1995–96 →

The 1994–95 French Rugby Union Championship was played by 32 clubs, divided into 4 pools. After the preliminary round, the top four of each pool, were admitted to the "top 16", also divided into 4 pools. The top two of each pool were admitted to the quarter-finals.

Châteaurenard, Saint-Paul lès Dax, Cannes and Tyrosse were the newcomers.

Le Toulouse won the title beating Castres in the final. It was their 12th French Championship. In this year Toulouse did the double winning the Challenge Yves du Manoir.

At the end of the season the first division of the French Championship reduced to 20 clubs, relegating Auch, Châteaurenard, Graulhet, Périgueux, Tarbes, Saint-Paul les Dax, Biarritz, Avenir Valencien, Cannes, Stade bordelais, Dijon and Tyrosse, to second division.

Preliminary round

Pool 1

Pos	Team	Points
1	Perpignan	35
2	Toulouse	33
3	Narbonne	32
4	Montpellier	32
5	Auch	30
6	Graulhet	22
7	Châteaurenard	22
8	Périgueux	18

Pool 2

Pos	Team	Points
1	Brive	34
2	Bourgoin-Jallieu	33
3	Racing Paris	32
4	Castres	31
5	Nice	31
6	Montferrand	29
7	Tarbes	18
8	Saint-Paul	16

Pool 3

Pos	Team	Points
1	Dax	34
2	Bègles-Bordeaux	34
3	Agen	32
4	Nîmes	30
5	Biarritz	29
6	Pau	27
7	Avenir Valencien	21
8	Cannes	17

Pool 4

Pos	Team	Points
1	Grenoble	33
2	Rumilly	32
3	Toulon	32
4	Colomiers	30
5	Stade Bordelais	30
6	Bayonne	28
7	Dijon	23
8	Tyrosse	16

"Top 16""

The first two of each pool to "last of 8" round

Pool 1

Pos	Team	Points
1	Perpignan	16
2	Bègles-Bordeaux	14
3	Racing Paris	9
4	Colomiers	8

Pool 2

Pos	Team	Points
1	Toulouse	17
2	Toulon	14
3	Brive	11
4	Nîmes	6

Pool 3

Pos	Team	Points
1	Dax	16
2	Castres	14
3	Rumilly	10
4	Montpellier	8

Pool 4

Pos	Team	Points
1	CS Bourgoin-Jallieu	14
2	SU Agen	13
3	RC Narbonne	12
4	FC Grenoble	9

Last 8

apr.1996	Toulouse	-	Agen	19–6
apr.1996	Bourgoin	-	Bordeaux-Begles	37–11
apr.1996	Castres	-	Perpignan	12–12^[1]
apr.1996	Toulon	-	Dax	23–8

Semifinals

apr.1996	Toulouse	-	Bourgoin	16–10
apr.1996	Castres	-	Toulon	18–13

Final

6 May 1995

Toulouse	31 – 16	Castres
Try: Ougier Con: Deylaud Pen: Deylaud (7) Drop: Deylaud		Try: Séguier Con: Savy Pen: Savy (2) Drop: Rui

Parc des Princes, Paris
Referee: Daniel Pascal


FB	15	Stéphane Ougier
RW	14	Émile Ntamack
OC	13	Philippe Carbonneau
IC	12	Thomas Castaignède
LW	11	David Berty
FH	10	Christophe Deylaud
SH	9	Jérôme Cazalbou	35'
N8	8	Albert Cigagna (c)
OF	7	Régis Sonnes
BF	6	Didier Lacroix	76'
RL	5	Franck Belot
LL	4	Hugues Miorin
TP	3	Claude Portolan
HK	2	Patrick Soula
LP	1	Christian Califano
Substitutions:
HK	16	Christophe Guiter
PR	17	Pascal Lasserre
FL	18	Richard Castel	76'
FL	19	Hervé Manent
CE	20	Olivier Carbonneau
CE	21	Éric Artiguste	35'
Coach:
Guy Novès


FB	15	Cyril Savy
RW	14	Philippe Escalle
OC	13	Alain Hyardet
IC	12	Jean-Marc Aué
LW	11	Christophe Lucquiaud
FH	10	Francis Rui
SH	9	Frédéric Séguier (c)
N8	8	Jean-Philippe Swiadeck
OF	7	Gilbert Pagès
BF	6	José Díaz
RL	5	Jean-François Gourragne
LL	4	Guy Jeannard	67'
TP	3	Thierry Lafforgue
HK	2	Christian Batut	46'
LP	1	Laurent Toussaint
Substitutions:
HK	16	Christophe Urios	46'
PR	17	Jean-Luc Vidal
LK	18	Colin Gaston	67'
FL	19	Frédéric Gommard
CE	20	Nicolas Combes
FB	21	Laurent Labit
Coach:
Jean-Marie Barsalou

Notes

^ Castres won at penalty barrage 5–4

[1] Castres won at penalty barrage 5–4

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