2019–20 Top 14 | |
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Countries | ![]() |
Date | 24 August 2019 – June 2020 |
Matches played | 119 |
Attendance | 1,672,486 (average 14,055 per match) |
Highest attendance | 38,503 Bordeaux Bègles v La Rochelle 22 December 2019 |
Lowest attendance | 6,009 Agen v Montpellier 15 September 2019 |
Top point scorer | ![]() (Brive) 181 points |
Top try scorer | ![]() (La Rochelle) 9 tries |
Official website | |
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The 2019–20 Top 14 competition is the 121st French domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR). Two new teams from the 2018–19 Pro D2 season were promoted to Top 14 (Bayonne and Brive) in place of the two relegated teams, Perpignan and Grenoble.
Teams | Region or country | Team(s) |
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6 | ![]() |
Agen, Bayonne, Bordeaux Bègles, Brive, La Rochelle, Pau |
3 | ![]() |
Castres, Montpellier, Toulouse |
2 | ![]() |
Clermont, Lyon |
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Racing, Stade Français | |
1 | ![]() |
Toulon |
The top six teams at the end of the regular season (after all the teams played one another twice, once at home, once away) enter a knockout stage to decide the Champions of France. This consists of three rounds: the teams finishing third to sixth in the table play quarter-finals (hosted by the third and fourth placed teams). The winners then face the top two teams in the semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.
The LNR uses a slightly different bonus points system from that used in most other rugby competitions. It trialled a new system in 2007–08 explicitly designed to prevent a losing team from earning more than one bonus point in a match,[1] a system that also made it impossible for either team to earn a bonus point in a drawn match. LNR chose to continue with this system for subsequent seasons.[2]
France's bonus point system operates as follows:[2]
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Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points For | Points Against | Points Diff. | Tries For | Tries Against | Try Bonus | Losing Bonus | Points | |||||
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1 | Bordeaux Bègles | 17 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 475 | 317 | 158 | 53 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 61 | ||||
2 | Lyon | 17 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 465 | 304 | 161 | 50 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 53 | ||||
3 | Racing | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 451 | 326 | 125 | 51 | 30 | 5 | 3 | 46 | ||||
4 | Toulon | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 396 | 334 | 62 | 37 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 45 | ||||
5 | La Rochelle | 17 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 370 | 377 | -7 | 38 | 38 | 3 | 3 | 42 | ||||
6 | Clermont | 17 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 423 | 415 | 8 | 39 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 41 | ||||
7 | Toulouse | 17 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 368 | 331 | 37 | 37 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 40 | ||||
8 | Montpellier | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 404 | 390 | 14 | 42 | 37 | 2 | 5 | 37 | ||||
9 | Castres | 17 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 392 | 460 | -68 | 38 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 33 | ||||
10 | Brive | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 364 | 441 | -77 | 32 | 48 | 1 | 2 | 33 | ||||
11 | Bayonne | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 327 | 409 | -82 | 27 | 45 | 0 | 3 | 33 | ||||
12 | Pau | 17 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 334 | 414 | -80 | 31 | 42 | 0 | 4 | 28 | ||||
13 | Agen | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 323 | 414 | -91 | 36 | 46 | 0 | 4 | 26 | ||||
14 | Stade Français | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 328 | 488 | -160 | 30 | 50 | 0 | 3 | 25 | ||||
If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
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Green background (rows 1 and 2) receive semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2020–21 European Rugby Champions Cup. Blue background (rows 3 to 6) receive quarter-final play-off places, and receive berths in the Champions Cup. Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2020–21 European Rugby Challenge Cup. Pink background (row 13) will qualify to the Relegation play-offs. Red background (row 14) will automatically be relegated to Rugby Pro D2. Final table — source: [1] |
Starting from the 2017–18 season forward, only the 14th placed team will be automatically relegated to Pro D2. The 13th placed team will face the runner-up of the Pro D2 play-off, with the winner of that play-off taking up the final place in Top 14 for the following season.[3]
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Leader, semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2020–21 European Rugby Champions Cup | |
Semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2020–21 European Rugby Champions Cup | |
Quarter-final play-off places, and receive berths in the Champions Cup. | |
Qualification to relegation play-off | |
Relegation to Rugby Pro D2 |
Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.
Top points scorers
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Top try scorers
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Club | Home Games |
Total | Average | Highest | Lowest | % Capacity |
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Agen | 9 | 74,809 | 8,312 | 13,500 | 6,009 | 59% |
Bayonne | 9 | 129,795 | 14,422 | 16,630 | 12,517 | 85% |
Bordeaux Bègles | 9 | 220,662 | 24,518 | 38,503 | 17,172 | 68% |
Brive | 9 | 97,306 | 10,812 | 12,273 | 9,457 | 68% |
Castres | 8 | 79,525 | 9,941 | 10,724 | 9,325 | 80% |
Clermont | 8 | 134,530 | 16,816 | 18,804 | 14,957 | 88% |
La Rochelle | 8 | 128,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 100% |
Lyon | 9 | 130,301 | 14,478 | 16,256 | 10,778 | 58% |
Montpellier | 8 | 91,738 | 11,467 | 16,153 | 8,000 | 63% |
Pau | 9 | 100,752 | 11,195 | 16,153 | 8,000 | 61% |
Racing | 9 | 135,384 | 15,043 | 26,292 | 7,102 | 49% |
Stade Francais | 7 | 72,499 | 10,357 | 14,050 | 8,000 | 52% |
Toulon | 9 | 122,371 | 13,597 | 17,287 | 12,124 | 75% |
Toulouse | 8 | 167,253 | 20,907 | 33,000 | 14,573 | 90% |