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	Bourgoin	14	9	0	5	352	280	+72	32
2	Brive	14	8	1	6	357	301	+56	31
3	Castres	14	8	1	5	297	281	+16	31
4	Stade Français	14	7	0	7	299	263	+36	28
5	Agen	14	7	0	7	292	268	+23	28
6	Pau	14	6	1	7	281	343	-62	27
7	Montferrand	14	5	1	8	226	278	-52	25
8	Colomiers	14	4	0	10	238	327	-89	22

Pool B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Toulouse	14	10	4	371	319	+54	34
2	Perpignan	14	9	5	357	284	+73	32
3	Biarritz	14	8	6	335	273	+62	30
4	Béziers	14	8	6	274	275	-1	30
5	Montpellier	14	6	8	285	288	-3	26
6	Narbonne	14	6	8	296	303	-37	26
7	Grenoble	14	5	9	306	362	-56	24
8	Montauban	14	4	10	216	336	-120	22

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	Montferrand	22	11	1	10	476	400	+76	45
2	Montpellier	22	11	0	11	457	459	-2	44
3	Agen	22	10	1	11	491	436	+55	43
4	Pau	22	10	1	11	546	558	-12	43
5	Narbonne	22	10	0	12	514	617	-113	42
6	FC Grenoble	22	8	1	13	458	408	-150	39
7	Clomiers	22	7	1	14	434	513	-79	37
8	Montauban	22	6	1	15	374	515	-141	35

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

USA Perpignan	35-21	CS Bourgoin-Jallieu

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

22 May 2004

Castres Olympique	25-18	CS Bourgoin-Jallieu

28 May 2004

CS Bourgoin-Jallieu	35-26	Castres Olympique

29 May 2004

USA Perpignan	45-6	AS Béziers

4 June 2004

CS Bourgoin-Jallieu	18-13	USA Perpignan

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	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	USA Perpignan	6	5	1	170	74	+96	16
2	CS Bourgoin-Jallieu	6	3	34	147	137	+10	12
3	Castres Olympique	6	3	3	130	126	+4	12
4	AS Béziers	6	1	5	75	185	-110	8

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	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Stade Français	6	4	2	151	100	+51	14
2	Tolouse	6	4	2	136	133	+3	14
3	Biarritz	6	3	3	149	107	+42	12
4	Brive	6	1	5	82	178	-96	8

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

2004-06-26

Perpignan	20 – 38	Stade Français
Tries Bomati 68' Edmonds 77' Con Giannantonio (2) 68', 77' Pen Giannantonio (2) 5', 29'		Tries Bergamasco 53' Corleto 60' Con Domínguez 53' Skrela 60' Pen Domínguez (5) 7', 14', 25', 42', 46' Skrela 57' Drops Dominici 30' Domínguez 33'

Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Attendance: 79,722
Referee: Joël Jutge



FB	15	Diego Giannantonio
RW	14	Pascal Bomati
OC	13	David Marty		64'
IC	12	Christophe Manas
LW	11	Dan Luger		34'
FH	10	Manny Edmonds
SH	9	Ludovic Loustau
N8	8	Rimas Álvarez Kairelis	51' to 61'
OF	7	Bernard Goutta (c)
BF	6	Grégory Le Corvec		52'
RL	5	Christophe Porcu		52'
LL	4	Colin Gaston
TP	3	Nicolas Mas
HK	2	Michel Konieck		58'
LP	1	Perry Freshwater
Replacements:
HK	16	Nicolas Grelon		58'
PR	17	Alejandro Moreno
LK	18	Mick O'Driscoll		52'
N8	19	Scott Robertson		52'
SH	20	Jérôme Fillol
WG	21	David Janin		34'
FH	22	Nicolas Laharrague		64'
Coach:
Olivier Saïsset



FB	15	Ignacio Corleto	66' to 76'	78'
RW	14	Juan Martín Hernández
OC	13	Stéphane Glas
IC	12	Brian Liebenberg
LW	11	Christophe Dominici
FH	10	Diego Domínguez		55'
SH	9	Agustín Pichot		78'
N8	8	Patrick Tabacco
OF	7	Mauro Bergamasco
BF	6	Pierre Rabadan		52'
RL	5	Mike James
LL	4	David Auradou (c)
TP	3	Pieter de Villiers
HK	2	Mathieu Blin		55'
LP	1	Sylvain Marconnet		62'
Replacements:
HK	16	Benoît August		55'
PR	17	Pablo Lemoine		62'
LK	18	Arnaud Marchois
FL	19	Christophe Moni		52'
SH	20	Grégory Mahé		78'
FH	21	David Skrela		55'
WG	22	Thomas Lombard		78'
Coach:
Nick Mallett

External links

LNR.fr

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2003–04 Top 16 season

First round

Pool A

Pool B

Relegation Pool

Top 8

Pool A

Pool B

Semifinals

Final

See also

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