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 1989–90
Countries France
Number of teams80 teams
ChampionsRacing
Runners-upAgen

Le Racing won his first bouclier de Brennus from 1959

Formula

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  • 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

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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"

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In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.

Team 1 Team 2 1st match 2nd match
Nîmes Toulouse 6-13 3-33
Béziers Narbonne 10-13 12-9
Castres Racing 6-9 6-40
Brive Grenoble 19-12 0-28
US Colomiers Touloun 6-3 12-30
Agen Auch 45-3 28-3
Montferrand Bègles-Bordeaux 31-18 12-21
Biarritz Dax 18-18 12-29

Quarter of finals

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In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1 Team 2 Results
Toulouse Narbonne 10-9
Racing Grenoble 27-21
Toulon Agen 0-6
Montferrand Dax 34-12

Semifinals

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Team 1 Team 2 Results
Toulose Racing 14-21
Agen Montferrand 9-3

Final

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26 May 1990
Racing Club de France22 – 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
FB 15   Jean-Baptiste Lafond
RW 14   Philippe Guillard
OC 13   Éric Blanc
IC 12   Franck Mesnel
LW 11   Geofrey Abadie
FH 10   Didier Pouyau
SH 9   Jean-Philippe Saffore
N8 8   Christophe Deslandes
OF 7   Laurent Cabannes
BF 6   Xavier Blond   75'
RL 5   Patrick Serrière (c)
LL 4   Michel Tachdjian
TP 3   Philippe Voisin   43'
HK 2   Jean-Pierre Genet
LP 1   Laurent Bénézech
Substitutions:
HK 16   Philippe Dubreuille
PR 17   Murray Dawson   43'
FL 18   Éric Dalle   75'
SH 19   Stéphane Jourdan
WG 20   Karim Abbou
CE 21   Jean-Luc Pelaez
Coach:
  Christian Lanta
FB 15   Bernard Lacombe
RW 14   Olivier Campan
OC 13   Philippe Sella
IC 12   Patrick Schattel
LW 11   Éric Gleyze
FH 10   Pierre Montlaur
SH 9   Pierre Berbizier (c)
N8 8   Dominique Erbani
OF 7   Philippe Benetton
BF 6   Jacques Gratton
RL 5   Bernard Mazzer  
LL 4   Abdelatif Benazzi
TP 3   Laurent Seigne
HK 2   Philippe Berbizier   81'
LP 1   Jean-Louis Tolot
Substitutions:
PR 16   Grégoire Lascubé   81'
LK 17   Patrick Pujade  
FL 18   Philippe Berniès
FL 19   Frédéric Maffre
SH 20   Michel Murat
CE 21   Guillaume Bouic
Coach:
  Michel Couturas
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