1989–90 French Rugby Union Championship

French Rugby Championship 1989–90
Countries France
Number of teams80 teams
ChampionsRacing
Runners-upAgen

Le Racing won The 1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship [after beating Agen in the final.

Le Racing won his first bouclier de Brennus from 1959

Formula

  • The tournament was played by 80 clubs divided in sixteen pools of five. .
  • The two better of each pool (a sum of 32 clubs) were admitted to the group A to play for the title
  • In the second round th e32 clubs of group A were divided in four pools of eight.
  • The four better of each pool of group A (16 clubs) were qualified to play the knockout stage

Group A qualification round to knockout stage

The teams are listed as the ranking, in bold the teams admitted to "last 16" round.

Pool 1

Pool 2

Pool 3

Pool 4

"Last 16"

In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.

Team 1 Team 2 1st match 2nd match
Nîmes Toulouse 6-13 3-33
Béziers Narbonne 10-13 12-9
Castres Racing 6-9 6-40
Brive Grenoble 19-12 0-28
US Colomiers Touloun 6-3 12-30
Agen Auch 45-3 28-3
Montferrand Bègles-Bordeaux 31-18 12-21
Biarritz Dax 18-18 12-29

Quarter of finals

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1 Team 2 Results
Toulouse Narbonne 10-9
Racing Grenoble 27-21
Toulon Agen 0-6
Montferrand Dax 34-12

Semifinals

Team 1 Team 2 Results
Toulose Racing 14-21
Agen Montferrand 9-3

Final

26 May 1990
Racing Club de France22 – 12 (after extra time)Agen
Try: Cabannes
Abadie
Con: Pouyau
Pen: Pouyau (2)
Lafond
Abadie
Pen: Campan
Montlaur (2)
Drop: Montlaur
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 45,069
Referee: Claude Debat
FB 15 Jean-Baptiste Lafond
RW 14 Philippe Guillard
OC 13 Éric Blanc
IC 12 Franck Mesnel
LW 11 Geofrey Abadie
FH 10 Didier Pouyau
SH 9 Jean-Philippe Saffore
N8 8 Christophe Deslandes
OF 7 Laurent Cabannes
BF 6 Xavier Blond  75'
RL 5 Patrick Serrière (c)
LL 4 Michel Tachdjian
TP 3 Philippe Voisin  43'
HK 2 Jean-Pierre Genet
LP 1 Laurent Bénézech
Substitutions:
HK 16 Philippe Dubreuille
PR 17 Murray Dawson  43'
FL 18 Éric Dalle  75'
SH 19 Stéphane Jourdan
WG 20 Karim Abbou
CE 21 Jean-Luc Pelaez
Coach:
Christian Lanta
FB 15 Bernard Lacombe
RW 14 Olivier Campan
OC 13 Philippe Sella
IC 12 Patrick Schattel
LW 11 Éric Gleyze
FH 10 Pierre Montlaur
SH 9 Pierre Berbizier (c)
N8 8 Dominique Erbani
OF 7 Philippe Benetton
BF 6 Jacques Gratton
RL 5 Bernard Mazzer
LL 4 Abdelatif Benazzi
TP 3 Laurent Seigne
HK 2 Philippe Berbizier  81'
LP 1 Jean-Louis Tolot
Substitutions:
PR 16 Grégoire Lascubé  81'
LK 17 Patrick Pujade
FL 18 Philippe Berniès
FL 19 Frédéric Maffre
SH 20 Michel Murat
CE 21 Guillaume Bouic
Coach:
Michel Couturas