1989–90 French Rugby Union Championship

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

French Rugby Championship 1989-1990
Countries France
Number of teams80 teams
ChampionsRacing
Runners-upAgen

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 1Team 21st match2nd match
NîmesToulouse6-133-33
BéziersNarbonne10-1312-9
CastresRacing6-96-40
BriveGrenoble19-120-28
US ColomiersTouloun6-312-30
AgenAuch45-328-3
MontferrandBègles-Bordeaux31-1812-21
BiarritzDax18-1812-29

Quarter of finals

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1Team 2Results
ToulouseNarbonne10-9
RacingGrenoble27-21
ToulonAgen0-6
MontferrandDax34-12

Semifinals

Team 1Team 2Results
TouloseRacing14-21
AgenMontferrand9-3

Final

26 May 1990
Racing Club de France 22 – 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
FB15 Jean-Baptiste Lafond
RW14 Philippe Guillard
OC13 Éric Blanc
IC12 Franck Mesnel
LW11 Geofrey Abadie
FH10 Didier Pouyau
SH9 Jean-Philippe Saffore
N88 Christophe Deslandes
OF7 Laurent Cabannes
BF6 Xavier Blond 75'
RL5 Patrick Serrière (c)
LL4 Michel Tachdjian
TP3 Philippe Voisin 43'
HK2 Jean-Pierre Genet
LP1 Laurent Bénézech
Substitutions:
HK16 Philippe Dubreuille
PR17 Murray Dawson 43'
FL18 Éric Dalle 75'
SH19 Stéphane Jourdan
WG20 Karim Abbou
CE21 Jean-Luc Pelaez
Coach:
Christian Lanta
FB15 Bernard Lacombe
RW14 Olivier Campan
OC13 Philippe Sella
IC12 Patrick Schattel
LW11 Éric Gleyze
FH10 Pierre Montlaur
SH9 Pierre Berbizier (c)
N88 Dominique Erbani
OF7 Philippe Benetton
BF6 Jacques Gratton
RL5 Bernard Mazzer
LL4 Abdelatif Benazzi
TP3 Laurent Seigne
HK2 Philippe Berbizier 81'
LP1 Jean-Louis Tolot
Substitutions:
PR16 Grégoire Lascubé 81'
LK17 Patrick Pujade
FL18 Philippe Berniès
FL19 Frédéric Maffre
SH20 Michel Murat
CE21 Guillaume Bouic
Coach:
Michel Couturas
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