1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship

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.

1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship
Countries France
ChampionsStade Français (10th title)
Runners-upColomiers
RelegatedMontauban, Toulon, Racing Paris, Nîmes

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

Preliminary round

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-Biarritz24–37
24 jun.Agen-Perpignan32–33
24 jun.Colomiers-Bourgoin20–18
24 jun.Montferrand-Brive41–23

Quarter of finals

1 jul.Biarritz-Tolosa18–28 o.t.
1 jul.Stade Français-Perpignan25–15
1 jul.Pau-Montferrand28–27
1 jul.Castres-Colomiers15–29

Semifinals

8 jul.Toulose-Stade Français13–30
8 jul.Pau-Colomiers22–24

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
FB15 Conrad Stoltz
RW14 Christophe Dominici
OC13 Franck Comba
IC12 Cliff Mytton
LW11 Nicolas Raffault
FH10 Diego Dominguez
SH9 Christophe Laussucq
N88 Christophe Juillet (c)
OF7 Richard Pool-Jones
BF6 Christophe Moni 63'
RL5 Hervé Chaffardon 78'
LL4 David Auradou
TP3 Pieter de Villiers 80+3'
HK2 Laurent Pedrosa 46'
LP1 Sylvain Marconnet
Substitutions:
HK16 Fabrice Landreau 46'
PR17 Justin Wring 80+3'
LK18 Darren George 63'
FL19 Pierre Rabadan 78'  80+3'
SH20 Jérémie Foissac
FB21 Sylvain Jonnet
FB22 Arthur Gomes 80+3'
Coach:
no head coach
FB15 Jean-Luc Sadourny (c)
RW14 Sébastien Roque
OC13 Mickaël Carré
IC12 Jérôme Sieurac 53'
LW11 Benjamin Lhande
FH10 David Skrela
SH9 Fabrice Culinat
N88 Francis Ntamack
OF7 Patrick Tabacco
BF6 Bernard de Giusti 28'
RL5 Jean-Marc Lorenzi 63'
LL4 Jean-Philippe Revallier 49'
TP3 Jeremy Tomuli 45'
HK2 Christophe Laurent 49'
LP1 Stéphane Delpuech
Substitutions:
HK16 Marc Dal Maso 49'
PR17 Stéphane Graou 45'
FL18 Philippe Magendie 28'
FL19 Hervé Manent 49'
N820 Stéphane Peysson 63'
SH21 Frédéric Pédoussaut
CE22 Laurent Marticorena 53'
Coach:
Henri Auriol
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