2000–01 Heineken Cup pool stage

2000–01 Heineken Cup pool stage
Season	2000–01 Heineken Cup
Date	6 October 2000 – 23 January 2001
Qualifiers
Seed 1	Stade Français
Seed 2	Leicester Tigers
Seed 3	Munster
Seed 4	Gloucester
Seed 5	Cardiff
Seed 6	Biarritz Olympique
Seed 7	Swansea
Seed 8	Pau
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In the 2000–2001 Heineken Cup pool stage matches, teams received

• 2 points for a win
• 1 points for a draw

Pool 1[]

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Biarritz Olympique	6	4	0	2	13	20	−7	164	152	12	8
Edinburgh Reivers	6	3	1	2	17	12	5	154	141	13	7
Leinster	6	3	1	2	13	14	−1	149	156	−7	7
Northampton	6	1	0	5	17	14	3	138	156	−18	2

Edinburgh finished above Leinster despite having a lower points difference, as the first tie-breaker was the results in the two matches between the teams.^[1]

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Pool 2[]

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Stade Français	6	5	0	1	36	4	32	297	85	212	10
Swansea	6	4	0	2	28	11	17	244	123	121	8
Wasps	6	3	0	3	20	14	6	175	156	19	6
L'Aquila	6	0	0	6	3	58	−55	40	392	−352	0

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Pool 3[]

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Cardiff	6	4	0	2	14	13	1	174	140	34	8
Saracens	6	4	0	2	18	13	5	182	146	36	8
Toulouse	6	2	1	3	19	15	4	171	182	−11	5
Ulster	6	1	1	4	11	21	−10	146	205	−59	3

Cardiff won the group despite having a lower points difference than Saracens, as the first tie-breaker was the results in the two matches between the teams.^[2]

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Pool 4[]

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Munster	6	5	0	1	15	7	8	154	109	45	10
Bath	6	4	0	2	14	11	3	139	106	33	8
Newport	6	2	0	4	10	22	−12	122	183	−61	4
Castres	6	1	0	5	14	13	1	135	152	−17	2

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Pool 5[]

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Gloucester	6	4	1	1	13	11	2	186	140	46	9
Llanelli	6	4	0	2	18	8	10	187	103	84	8
Colomiers	6	3	1	2	14	11	3	148	120	28	7
Roma	6	0	0	6	10	25	−15	88	246	−158	0

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Pool 6[]

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Leicester	6	5	0	1	15	9	6	178	105	73	10
Pau	6	4	0	2	19	10	9	154	142	12	8
Pontypridd	6	2	0	4	9	12	−3	136	131	5	4
Glasgow Caledonians	6	1	0	5	12	24	−12	137	227	−90	2

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Seeding[]

Seed	Pool Winners	Pts	TF	+/−
1	Stade Français	10	36	+212
2	Leicester Tigers	10	15	+73
3	Munster	10	15	+45
4	Gloucester	9	13	+46
5	Cardiff	8	18	+36
6	Biarritz Olympique	8	13	+12
Seed	Pool Runners-up	Pts	TF	+/−
7	Swansea	8	28	+121
8	Pau	8	19	+12
-	Llanelli	8	18	+84
-	Saracens	8	14	+34
-	Bath	8	14	+33
-	Edinburgh Reivers	7	17	+13

See also[]

• 2000–01 Heineken Cup

References[]