1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship

French Rugby Championship 1988-89
Countries	France
Champions	Toulose (10th title)
Runners-up	Toulon
← 1987-88 1989-90 →

The 1988-89 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Toulose that beat Toulon in the final.

Toulouse won his 10th bouclier de Brennus, the third in the 80's.

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 the 32 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 to knockout stage

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

Pool 1

Toulouse
Dax
Montferrand
Agen
Bourgoin-Jallieu
Cognac
Montchanin
Villeneuve-sur-Lot

Pool 2

Pool 3

Pool 4

Grenoble
Béziers
Narbonne
Racing
Hagetmau
Villefranche de Lauragais
RRC Nice
Boucau Tarnos

"Last 16"

In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.

Team 1	Team 2	1st match	2nd match
Agen	Dax	15-15	41-15
Racing	Stadoceste	16-15	0-22
Bègles-Bordeaux	Toulouse	3-47	15-27
Lourdes	Blagnac SCR	6-10	24-9
Graulhet	Grenoble	3-36	9-15
Narbonne	Bayonne	39-9	24-18
Montferrand	Touloun	21-17	9-29
Brive	Béziers	12-22	6-32

Quarter of finals

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Équipe 1	Équipe 2	Results
Agen	Stadoceste	12-9
Toulouse	Lourdes	41-15
Grenoble	Narbonne	13-24
Touloun	Béziers	19-12

Semifinals

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Agen	Toulouse	9-18
Narbonne	Touloun	3-20

Final

Teams	Toulouse - Toulon
Score	18-12 (15-9)
Date	27 May 1989
Venue	Parc des Princes, Paris
Referee	Guy Maurette
Line-up
Toulose	Serge Laïrle (Gérard Portolan 73), Patrick Soula, Claude Portolan, Hugues Miorin, Jean-Marie Cadieu, Thierry Maset (Hervé Lecomte 69), Karl Janik, Albert Cigagna, Jérôme Cazalbou, Philippe Rougé-Thomas, David Berty, Denis Charvet, Didier Codorniou, Jean-Michel Rancoule, Joël Dupuy Not on the ground : Michel Lopez, Éric Bonneval, Thierry Savio, Bruno Coumes
Toulon	Manu Diaz, Jean-Michel Casalini (Jean-Louis Raibaut 77), Yann Braendlin, Yvan Roux, Jean-Charles Orso (Jean-Pierre Alarcon 80), Éric Champ, Jean-François Tordo, Éric Melville, Jérôme Gallion, Christian Cauvy, Pascal Jehl, Alain Carbonel, Pierre Trémouille, Éric Fourniols, Jérôme Bianchi Not on the ground : Thierry Louvet, Philippe Sauton, Thierry Ruet, Frédéric Saint-Sardos
Scorers
Toulose	2 tries Laîrle (1) and Charvet (31), 2 conversions de Dupuy and 1 drop Charvet (11), 1 drop Dupuy (70)
Touloun	3 penalties Bianchi (15,21,58), 1 drop Cauvy (6)

References

External links

Compte rendu finale 1989 lnr.fr

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