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

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)

• Montferrand
• Narbonne
• Nîmes
• Périgueux
• Perpignan
• Racing club de France
• Pau
• Stade Français
• Mont-de-Marsan (promoted)
• La Rochelle
• Toulon
• Toulouse

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 Montauban	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 default of 10 million French francs, 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	-	Toulouse	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.	Toulouse	-	Stade Français	13–30
8 jul.	Pau	-	Colomiers	22–24

Final

15 July 2000

Stade Français	28 – 23	Colomiers
Try: Dominici Laussucq Comba Con: Dominguez (2) Pen: Dominguez (3)		Try: Ntamack Culinat Con: Skrela Marticorena Pen: Skrela (3)

Stade de France, Saint-Denis Referee: Didier Mené

FB 15 Conrad Stoltz RW 14 Christophe Dominici OC 13 Franck Comba IC 12 Cliff Mytton LW 11 Nicolas Raffault FH 10 Diego Dominguez SH 9 Christophe Laussucq N8 8 Christophe Juillet (c) OF 7 Richard Pool-Jones BF 6 Christophe Moni  63' RL 5 Hervé Chaffardon  78' LL 4 David Auradou TP 3 Pieter de Villiers  80+3' HK 2 Laurent Pedrosa  46' LP 1 Sylvain Marconnet Substitutions: HK 16 Fabrice Landreau  46' PR 17 Justin Wring  80+3' LK 18 Darren George  63' FL 19 Pierre Rabadan  78'  80+3' SH 20 Jérémie Foissac FB 21 Sylvain Jonnet FB 22 Arthur Gomes  80+3' Coach: no head coach

FB 15 Jean-Luc Sadourny (c) RW 14 Sébastien Roque OC 13 Mickaël Carré IC 12 Jérôme Sieurac  53' LW 11 Benjamin Lhande FH 10 David Skrela SH 9 Fabrice Culinat N8 8 Francis Ntamack OF 7 Patrick Tabacco BF 6 Bernard de Giusti  28' RL 5 Jean-Marc Lorenzi  63' LL 4 Jean-Philippe Revallier  49' TP 3 Jeremy Tomuli  45' HK 2 Christophe Laurent  49' LP 1 Stéphane Delpuech Substitutions: HK 16 Marc Dal Maso  49' PR 17 Stéphane Graou  45' FL 18 Philippe Magendie  28' FL 19 Hervé Manent  49' N8 20 Stéphane Peysson  63' SH 21 Frédéric Pédoussaut CE 22 Laurent Marticorena  53' Coach: Henri Auriol