1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship

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

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