1993–94 French Rugby Union Championship

The 1993–94 French Rugby Union Championship was contested by 32 clubs divided into four pools. At the end of the first phase, the teams placed in the first four places of each pool were admitted to the "Top 16" arranged with four pools of four teams. The first two of each pool were admitted to the quarter-finals.

French Rugby Championship 1993–94
Countries	France
Number of teams	32 teams
Champions	Toulouse
Runners-up	Montferrand
Relegated	Mont de Marsan, Lourdes, Beziers, LOU

The four clubs of Périgueux, Dijon, Lyon OU and Lourdes, the newcomer, coming from "Group B" 1992-93.

Toulouse won its 11th title, beating Montferrand in the final. Toulouse became, with Béziers, the winner of the most titles. Montferrand lost another final. At the end of the season Mon de Marsan, Lourdes, Béziers and Lyon OU were relegated.

Participants

Teams listed as in the final ranking. Teams in bold qualified to the next round.

Pool 1 CA Bègtles-Bordeaux Castres Montferrand Bayonne Brive Rumilly RRC Nice Périgueux	Pool 2 Auch Toulouse Grenoble Dax Stadoceste tarbais Dijon Mon de Marsan Avenir Valencien
Pool 3 Agen Biarritz Bourgoin-Jallieu Narbonne Nîmes Pau Lourdes Graulhet	Pool 4 Perpignan Racing Paris Colomiers RC Toulon Stade bordelais UC Montpellier Béziers Lyon OU

Top 16

Team listed as in the final ranking. Teams in bold qualified to next round.

Pool 1 Toulouse Narbonne CA Bègles-Bordeaux Colomiers	Pool 2 RC Toulon Agen Bayonne Auch
Pool 3 Grenoble Montferrand Racing Paris Biarritz	Pool 4 Dax Bourgoin-Jallieu Perpignan Castres

Final stages

Quarter-finals

May 1994	Dax	18 - 9	Bourgoin

4 May 1994	Montferrand	15 – 8	Toulon	Lyon
	Pen: Pradier 4' 7' 17' 38' 78'		Pen: Loppy 57'	Attendance: 10.000 Referee: Barrabes

15 May 1994	Toulouse	26 – 12	Narbonne	Stade Maurice Trélut, Tarbes
	Try: Cazalbou 51', Ougier 58' O. Carbonneau 79' Con: Deylaud Pen: Deylaud 22', Ntamack 11' 30'		Pen: Marfaing 13' 25' 33' 53'	Attendance: 3.710 Referee: M. Thomas

May1994	Grenoble	15 - 11	Agen

Semifinals

21 May 1994	Montferrand	22 – 15	Grenoble	Nimes
	Try: Saint-André 57' Con: Pradier 57' Pen: Pradier 5 (1', 12', 18', 22', 72' )		Pen: Savy 3 (7' 9' 31'), Vélo (35') Drop: Goirand (16')	Attendance: 15.000 Referee: M. Casteret

21 May 1994	Toulouse	30 – 25	Dax	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
	Try: Portolan (15') et Berty 2 (47' e 52') Con: Deylaud 3 (15' 47' 52') Pen: Deylaud (6') Drop: Deylaud 2 (72' 74')		Try: Roumat (78') Con: Lacroix (78') Pen: Lacroix 5 (24' 40' 59' 63' 68') Drop: Lacroix (45')	Attendance: 9.317 Referee: Didier Mené

Final

28 May 1994

Toulouse	22 – 16	Montferrand
Try: Cazalbou (63') Con: Deylaud (63') Pen: Deylaud (3) (38', 52', 77') Drop: Deylaud (2) (40', 66')		Try: Juillet (60') Con: Pradier (60') Pen: Pradier (3) (6', 26', 34')

Parc des Princes, Paris Referee: Marc Desclaux

FB 15 Joël Dupuy RW 14 Émile Ntamack OC 13 Philippe Carbonneau  79' IC 12 Olivier Carbonneau  64' LW 11 David Berty FH 10 Christophe Deylaud SH 9 Jérôme Cazalbou N8 8 Albert Cigagna (c) OF 7 Régis Sonnes BF 6 Jean-Luc Cester RL 5 Franck Belot LL 4 Hugues Miorin TP 3 Claude Portolan HK 2 Patrick Soula  77' LP 1 Christian Califano Substitutions: HK 16 Christophe Guiter  77' PR 17 Patrick Diniz LK 18 Jean Joanny FL 19 Didier Lacroix CE 20 Thomas Castaignède  64' FB 21 Ugo Mola  79' Coach: Guy Novès

FB 15 Gilles Darlet RW 14 Raphaël Saint-André OC 13 Fabrice Ribeyrolles IC 12 Philippe Saint-André LW 11 Fabien Bertrank FH 10 Éric Nicol SH 9 Marc Pradier N8 8 Christophe Juillet OF 7 Jean-Marc Lhermet (c) BF 6 Arnaud Costes RL 5 Jean-Philippe Versailles LL 4 Éric Lecomte TP 3 Christophe Duchêne HK 2 Philippe Marocco LP 1 Emmanuel Menieu Substitutions: HK 16 Olivier Mallaret LK 17 Raphaël Chamelot FL 18 Ghislain Couchard SH 19 Patrick Ladouce FH 20 Laurent Romeu WG 21 Gaëtan Héry Coach: Patrick Boucheix

Bibliografia

• Un siècle de rugby (in French) (13 ed.). Calmann-Lévy. 17 November 2010. ISBN 978-2-7021-4118-2. siècle.

External links

• Compte rendu de la finale 1994 sur www.lnr.fr