1976–77 French Rugby Union Championship

French Rugby Championship 1976-1977
Countries	France
Number of teams	80
Champions	Béziers
Runners-up	Perpignan

The 1976-77 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Béziers beating Perpignan in the final.

Formula

The "elite" (group A) were formed by five pools of eight clubs.

Were 25 the teams of group A qualified for the knockout stages with seven team coming from group B, also formed by 40 teams.

Both group were arranged in 5 pools of 8 teams.

Qualification Round

Group A

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round. The teams are listed according to the final ranking

Pool 1

RRC Nice
Agen
Biarritz
US Bressane
Aurillac
Stade Beaumontois
Angoulême
Mimizan

Pool 2

Béziers
Perpignan
La Voulte
US Salles
Le Creusot
Valence
Pau
Cahors

Pool 3

Narbonne
Touloun
Bègles
Stade Bagnérais
Dax
Carcassonne
Racing
Saint-Claude

Pool 4

Lourdes
Brive
Toulouse
Graulhet
Montauban
La Rochelle
Avignon Saint-Saturnin
Mont de Marsan

Pool 5

Montferrand
Bayonne
Romans
Stadoceste
Montchanin
Castres
Oloron
Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Group B

The teams qualified are here listed:

Albi Auch Chambéry Mérignac		Rodez Tulle Tyrosse

Knockout stages

"Last 32"

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Match aller	Match retour
Béziers	Albi	62-6	43-9
Graulhet	Dax	7-3	12-19
Salles	Bayonne	14-10	8-25
Touloun	Montchanin	30-13	53-9
RRC Nice	Chambéry	15-15	18-12
Toulouse	Bègles	13-4	16-7
Biarritz	Le Creusot	6-3	35-12
Brive	Mérignac	18-9	8-9
Perpignan	Aurillac	32-9	29-10
Agen	Tulle	27-19	12-6
Narbonne	Auch	45-9	48-9
US Bressane	La Voulte	18-12	3-12
Romans	Montauban	23-7	4-7
Lourdes	Rodez	40-0	19-14
Montferrand	Tyrosse	33-17	34-16
Stade Bagnérais	Stadoceste	16-12	6-0

"Last 16"

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Béziers	Dax	47-3
Bayonne	Toulon	13-6
RRC Nice	Toulose	17-6
Biarritz	Brive	19-10
Perpignan	Agen	21-10
Narbonne	La Voulte	17-7
Romans	Lourdes	16-10
Montferrand	Stade Bagnérais	33-15

Quarter of finals

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Béziers	Bayonne	18-16
RRC Nice	Biarritz	19-17
Perpignan	Narbonne	19-4
Romans	Montferrand	16-13

Semifinals

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Béziers	RRC Nice	15-10
Perpignan	Romans	9-6

Final

Teams	Béziers - Perpignan
Score	12-04
Date	29 May 1977
Venue	Parc des Princes, Paris
Referee	Gilbert Chevrier
Line-up
Béziers	Armand Vaquerin, Alain Paco, Jean-Louis Martin, Georges Senal, Michel Palmié, Olivier Saïsset, Jean-Luc Meiser, Alain Estève, Richard Astre, Henri Cabrol, René Séguier, Jean-Pierre Pesteil, Jean-Luc Rivallo, Michel Fabre, Jack Cantoni Remplaçant : Francis Lugans
Perpignan	Patrick David, Yves Brunet, Michel Izquierdo, Paul Goze, Jean-François Imbernon, Roland Genis, Jacques Tisseyre, Jean-Louis Got, Yves Ballaneda, Jean Lopez, Gérard Mérou, Jean-Pierre Garcia, Richard Lecoq, Claude Fontana, Gérald Porical Remplaçants : Alain Delmas, Paul Foussat, Jean-Pierre Lambert, Richard Masforne
Scorers
Béziers	1 try Astre, 1 conversion and 2 penalties Cabrol
Perpignan	1 try Fontana

Béziers won le Bouclier de Brennus for the fifth time in the '70s.

Three players in the match were also members of the French team that won Grand Slam in 1977 with "équipe de France" : Alain Paco and Michel Palmié of Béziers and Jean-François Imbernon of USAP.

External links

Compte rendu finale de 1977 lnr.fr

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