2019 Tahiti Championship season

2019 Tahiti Championship
2019 Tahiti Championship
Countries	Tahiti
Date	19 September 2019 – 30 November 2019
Champions	Pirae (7th Title)
Runners-up	Arue
Relegated	Paea
Matches played	23
Top point scorer	Manahau Pautu; (Pirae); 101 points
Top try scorer	Yannick Mauahiti; (Pirae); 13 tries
Official website
	www.federationpolynesiennederugby.com/competitions/2019/resultats-2019/seniors-championnat-de-tahiti-a-xv-2019.html
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The 2019 Tahiti Championship competition was the 46th season of the Tahitian domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Fédération Polynésienne de Rugby (FPR).^[2]^[1]

Teams

Club	City (commune)	Stadium	Capacity	Previous season
Arue	Papeete, Arue	Stade Fautaua	10,000	5th
Faa’a	Papeete, Faa’a	Stade Fautaua	10,000	Champions (1st in league)
Paea	Papeete, Paea	Stade Fautaua	10,000	Did not compete
Papeete	Papeete	Stade Fautaua	10,000	4th place (2nd in league)
Pirae	Papeete, Pirae	Stade Fautaua	10,000	Runners up (3rd in league)
Punaauia	Papeete, Punaauia	Stade Fautaua	10,000	3rd-place winners (4th in league)
Taravao	Taravao (Taiarapu-Est)	Taravao		6th

Number of teams by regions

All but one team this season are from Papeete or suburbs of the Papeete Urban Area.

Teams	Region or island	Team(s)
7	Tahiti	Arue, Faa’a, Paea, Papeete, Pirae, Punaauia and Taravao

Competition format

The top four teams at the end of the regular season (after all the teams played one another once) enter a knockout stage to decide the Champions of Tahiti. This consists of two rounds. The semi-finals, with the losers meeting for 3rd place and with the winners meeting in the final at the Stade Fautaua in Pirae.

Tahiti's bonus point system operates as follows:^[3]

4 points for a win.
2 points for a draw.
1 point for a loss.
No point for a forfeit.
1 bonus point for scoring at least 4 tries (or more).
1 bonus point for losing by 7 points (or fewer).

Table

2019 Tahiti Championship Table

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Club

Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

Points For

Points Against

Points Diff.

Yellow Cards

Red Cards

Try Bonus

Losing Bonus

Points

1

Arue (VC)

6

5

0

1

168

44

+124

1

0

4

0

25

2

Pirae (C)

6

5

0

1

296

66

+230

2

1

5

0

25

3

Punaauia (SF)

6

4

0

2

147

87

+60

3

1

2

1

21

4

Papeete (SF)

6

3

0

3

156

108

+48

3

0

2

19

5

Paea (R)

6

2

0

4

106

205

-99

5

2

1

15

6

Faa’a (DC)

6

2

0

4

82

151

-69

1

2

0

12

7

Taravao

6

0

6

38

332

-294

0

4

If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Competition points earned in head-to-head matches
Points difference in head-to-head matches
Try differential in head-to-head matches
Points difference in all matches
Try differential in all matches
Points scored in all matches
Tries scored in all matches
Fewer matches forfeited
Classification in the previous Tahiti Championship season

Green background (rows 1 and 4) receive semi-final play-off places.
Pink background (rows 5–7) may be relegated to Tahiti Championship D2.
Final table — source: [1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Fédération Polynésienne de Rugby - Résultats 2019 - SENIORS - Championnat de Tahiti à XV 2019". www.federationpolynesiennederugby.com.
^ "Fédération Polynésienne de Rugby - Accueil". www.federationpolynesiennederugby.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
^ "Rugby Club de Pirae - Tahiti - Séniors - Championnat à XV 2015". www.rugbyclubdepirae.pf. Retrieved 2020-11-09.

[auto-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Fédération Polynésienne de Rugby - Résultats 2019 - SENIORS - Championnat de Tahiti à XV 2019". www.federationpolynesiennederugby.com.

[2] "Fédération Polynésienne de Rugby - Accueil". www.federationpolynesiennederugby.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2020-11-05.

[3] "Rugby Club de Pirae - Tahiti - Séniors - Championnat à XV 2015". www.rugbyclubdepirae.pf. Retrieved 2020-11-09.

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