2003–04 Top 16 season

2003–04 Top 16 season
Countries  France
Champions Stade Français (12th title)
Runners-up USA Perpignan
Relegated US Colomiers and US Montauban

The 2003-04 Top 16 season was the top level of French club rugby in 2003-05. The competition was played by 16 teams. In the first stage, two pools of 8 played. The first 4 of each pool were admitted to the "top 8" to play for the title, the other 4 to a relegation tournament.

First round

(3 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 1 point for a loss)

Pool A

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Bourgoin14905352280+7232
2 Brive14816357301+5631
3 Castres14815297281+1631
4 Stade Français14707299263+3628
5 Agen14707292268+2328
6 Pau14617281343-6227
7 Montferrand14518226278-5225
8 Colomiers144010238327-8922

Pool B

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Toulouse141004371319+5434
2 Perpignan14905357284+7332
3 Biarritz14806335273+6230
4 Béziers14806274275-130
5 Montpellier14608285288-326
6 Narbonne14608296303-3726
7 Grenoble14509306362-5624
8 Montauban144010216336-12022

Relegation Pool

The teams total sum of the points obtained in the first round and the points obtained in the matches played with the 4 teams from the other group (home and away).

Clubs AGE COL GRE MTB MFR MPL NAR PAU
SU Agen 12-16 22-0 44-3 43-21
US Colomiers 25-16 9-9 25-32 70-19
FC Grenoble 19-19 26-10 15-26 40-29
US Montauban 32-10 19-23 19-22 46-12
Montferrand 44-3 47-10 34-7 45-14
Montpellier 33-14 27-18 26-13 34-7
RC Narbonne 43-35 38-16 28-19 29-18
Pau 81-17 34-23 16-0 68-26


Home victory Drawn Home losses
Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Montferrand2211110476400+7645
2 Montpellier2211011457459-244
3 Agen2210111491436+5543
4 Pau2210111546558-1243
5 Narbonne2210012514617-11342
6 FC Grenoble228113458408-15039
7 Clomiers227114434513-7937
8 Montauban226115374515-14135

Top 8

Two Pool of 4 teams. The first two of each pool were qualified for semifinals. Them and the third also qualified for 2004–05 Heineken Cup

Pool A

8 may 2004
AS Béziers 15-19 Castres Olympique

14 may 2004
Castres Olympique 15-26 USA Perpignan

15 may 2004
CS Bourgoin-Jallieu 33-10 AS Béziers

21 may 2004
AS Béziers 8-27 USA Perpignan

29 May 2004
USA Perpignan 45-6 AS Béziers

5 june 2004
Castres Olympique 38-09 AS Béziers

12 june 2004
AS Béziers 28-22 CS Bourgoin-Jallieu

12 june 2004
USA Perpignan 23-7 Castres Olympique

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 USA Perpignan650117074+9616
2 CS Bourgoin-Jallieu63034147137+1012
3 Castres Olympique6303130126+412
4 AS Béziers610575185-1108

Pool B

7 may 2004
Stade Français 13-6 Biarritz

8 may 2004
Brive 9-29 Tolouse

15 may 2004
Tolouse 18-24 Stade Français

15 may 2004
Biarritz 38-11 Brive

22 may 2004
Stade Français 34-10-27 Brive

26 may 2004
Biarritz 25-26 Tolouse

29 May 2004
Brive 24-19 Stade Français

30 may 2004
Tolouse 25-18 Biarritz

5 june 2004
Biarritz 25-12 Stade Français

5 june 2004
Tolouse 21-8 Brive

12 june 2004
Brive 20-37 Biarritz

12 june 2004
Stade Français 49-17-7 Tolouse

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Stade Français6402151100+5114
2 Tolouse6402136133+314
3 Biarritz6303149107+4212
4 Brive610582178-968

Semifinals

19 June 2004
CS Bourgoin-Jallieu 21 - 31 Stade Français
Stade Gerland, Lyon

20 june 2004
USA Perpignan 18 - 16 Tolouse
Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier

Final

2 June 2004
USA Perpignan 20 - 38 Stade Français
Try: Edmonds, Bomati
Con: Giannantonio
Pen: Giannantonio
Try: Mau. Bergamasco, Corleto
Con: Dominquez, Skrela
Pen: Dominquez
Drop: Dominquez, Dominici
Stade de France, Paris
Referee: Joël Jutge

Perpignan: Nicolas Mas, Michel Konieck, Perry Freshwater, Colin Gaston, Christophe Porcu, Grégory Le Corvec, Bernard Goutta, Rimas Álvarez Kairelis, Ludovic Loustau, Manuel Edmonds, Dan Luger, Christophe Manas, David Marty, Pascal Bomati, Diego Giannantonio- Replacements : Nicolas Grelon, Alessandro Moreno, Mick O'Driscoll, Scott Robertson, Jérôme Fillol, David Janin, Nicolas Laharrague

Stade Français: Sylvain Marconnet, Mathieu Blin, Pieter de Villiers, David Auradou, Mike James, Pierre Rabadan, Mauro Bergamasco, Patrick Tabacco, Agustín Pichot, Diego Dominguez, Christophe Dominici, Brian Liebenberg, Stéphane Glas, Juan Martín Hernández, Ignacio Corleto- Replacements : Benoît August, Pablo Lemoine, Arnaud Marchois, Christophe Moni, Grégory Mahé, David Skrela, Thomas Lombard


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