1958–59 French Rugby Union Championship

French Rugby Championship 1958-59
French Rugby Championship 1958-59
Countries	France
Number of teams	48 teams
Champions	Racing Paris (4th title)
Runners-up	Mont-de-Marsan
	← 1957-58 1959-60 →

The 1958-59 French Rugby Union Championship was contested by 48 clubs divided in six pools of eight.

The five better of each pool and the two better 6th (for a sum of 32 clubs) were qualified to play a play-off phase.

The championship was won by Racing Paris that defeated Mont-de-Marsan in the final.

Context[]

The 1959 Five Nations Championship was won France .

The Challenge Yves du Manoir was won by Dax that beat Pau for 12-8.

Qualification round[]

In bold the qualified to "last 32" phase

Poule A[]

Poule F[]

"Last 32"[]

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Lourdes	Graulhet	12-6
Béziers	Brive	13-9
Pau		30-3
Dax	Vichy	9-0
Racing	Montferrand	8-0
	Auch	3-3
Grenoble		12-6
Toulon	Toulose	14-6
	Cognac	6-0
Perpignan	Stadoceste	8-3
Mazamet	Montauban	23-3
Bayonne		13-3
Mont-de-Marsan	Agen	5-0
Castres	Angoulême	15-0
Périgueux	Aurillac	19-0
Biarritz	Cahors	6-3

"Last 16"[]

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Lourdes	Béziers	6-5
Pau	Dax	12-6
Racing		6-0
Grenoble	Toulon	5-3
	Perpignan	3-0
Mazamet	Bayonne	6-3
Mont-de-Marsan	Castres	6-0
Périgueux	Biarritz	16-3

Quarter of finals[]

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Lourdes	Pau	9-8
Racing	Grenoble	14-5
	Mazamet	3-0
Mont-de-Marsan	Périgueux	20-3

Semifinals[]

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Mont-de-Marsan		16-9
Racing	Lourdes	19-3

Final[]

Teams	Racing - Mont-de-Marsan
Score	8-3
Date	24 May 1959
Venue	Parc municipal des sports, Bordeaux
Referee
Line-up
Racing	Roger Labernède, Claude Obadia, Jean-Pierre Beigbeder, Serge Grousset, Stéphane Boize, François Moncla, Michel Crauste, Marc Paillassa, Henri Lasserre, Louis Fernandez, Robert Navarre, Emile Barbaste, Arnaud Marquesuzaa, Alain Chappuis, Michel Debet
Mont-de-Marsan	, , , , Pierre Capbert, , Jacques Bourdeu, Ferdinand Roumat, Pierre Lacroix, Louis Requenna, Christian Darrouy, André Boniface, Guy Boniface, Gérard Dagès, Francis Darroze
Scorers
Racing	1 try Boize, 1 conversion and 1 penalty Debet
Mont-de-Marsan	1 try Guy Boniface

François Moncla, Michel Crauste and Arnaud Marquesuzaa

External links[]

Compte rendu finale de 1959 lnr.fr

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Governing body	Ligue Nationale de Rugby

1958–59 French Rugby Union Championship

Context[]

Qualification round[]

Poule A[]

Poule B[]

Poule C[]

Poule D[]

Poule E[]

Poule F[]

"Last 32"[]

"Last 16"[]

Quarter of finals[]

Semifinals[]

Final[]

External links[]