1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship

French Rugby Championship 1988-89
French Rugby Championship 1988-89
Countries	France
Number of teams	80 teams
Champions	Toulouse (10th title)
Runners-up	Toulon
	← 1987-88 1989-90 →

The 1988-89 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Toulouse that beat Toulon in the final.

Toulouse won his 10th bouclier de Brennus, the third in the 80's.

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 the 32 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 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

Touloun
Bayonne
Brive
Graulhet
Aurillac
Mont-de-Marsan
US Colomiers

Pool 4

Grenoble
Béziers
Narbonne
Racing
RRC Nice

"Last 16"[]

In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.

Team 1	Team 2	1st match	2nd match
Agen	Dax	15-15	41-15
Racing	Stadoceste	16-15	0-22
Bègles-Bordeaux	Toulouse	3-47	15-27
Lourdes		6-10	24-9
Graulhet	Grenoble	3-36	9-15
Narbonne	Bayonne	39-9	24-18
Montferrand	Touloun	21-17	9-29
Brive	Béziers	12-22	6-32

Quarter of finals[]

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Équipe 1	Équipe 2	Results
Agen	Stadoceste	12-9
Toulouse	Lourdes	41-15
Grenoble	Narbonne	13-24
Touloun	Béziers	19-12

Semifinals[]

Team 1	Team 2	Results
Agen	Toulouse	9-18
Narbonne	Touloun	3-20

Final[]

Teams	Toulouse - Toulon
Score	18-12 (15-9)
Date	27 May 1989
Venue	Parc des Princes, Paris
Referee	Guy Maurette
Line-up
Toulouse	( 73), , , Hugues Miorin, Jean-Marie Cadieu, (Hervé Lecomte 69), , Albert Cigagna, Jérôme Cazalbou, Philippe Rougé-Thomas, , Denis Charvet, Didier Codorniou, , Not on the ground : , Éric Bonneval, ,
Toulon	, (Jean-Louis Raibaut 77), , , (Jean-Pierre Alarcon 80), Éric Champ, Jean-François Tordo, , Jérôme Gallion, , , , , , Not on the ground : Thierry Louvet, , ,
Scorers
Toulouse	2 tries Laîrle (1) and Charvet (31), 2 conversions de Dupuy and 1 drop Charvet (11), 1 drop Dupuy (70)
Touloun	3 penalties Bianchi (15,21,58), 1 drop Cauvy (6)

References[]

External links[]

Compte rendu finale 1989 lnr.fr

v t Top 14
2021–22 Teams	Biarritz Bordeaux Brive Castres Clermont La Rochelle Lyon Montpellier Pau Perpignan Racing Stade Français Toulon Toulouse
Early years	1892 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19
Interbellum era	1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39
World War II	1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45
Post-war years	1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60
1960–80	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80
1980–95	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
Professional era and Top 16	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05
Top 14	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22
Trophy	Bouclier de Brennus
Governing body	Ligue Nationale de Rugby