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1995–96 French Rugby Union Championship

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Field	Value
countries	France
champions	Toulouse
count	13
runnersup	Brive
relegated	Nîmes, Périgueux, PUC, Dijon
prevseason	1994–95
nextseason	1996–97

The 1995–96 French Rugby Union Championship was played by 20 teams in the first division ("A1")

In the "A1" group were abstent historical clubs like Béziers, Biarritz, Tarbes, and FC Lourdes.

The teams were divided in two pool of 10, and the first 4 were directly qualified to the "Last 16" round, while the ranked from 5th to 8th were admitted to a "barrage" with eight teams from "A2" group.

Stade Toulousain won their 13th title winning the final against CA Brive, who lost their 4th final.

Four team were relegated to lower level: Bayonne, Racing club de France, Montpellier, RC Nice et FCS Rumilly that were replaced by Béziers, Biarritz, Périgueux, Dijon, and Paris Université Club.

Stade Toulousain won his 14th title beating in the final the Bourgoin, at his first final.

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Points
1	Toulouse	43
2	Grenoble	41
3	Toulon	40
4	Narbonne	38
5	Agen	36
6	Perpignan	36
7	Nîmes	34
8	Nice	33
9	Bayonne	32
10	Racing club de France	27

Pool 2

Pos	Team	Points
1	CA Brive	42
2	Bourgoin	41
3	Castres	38
4	Bordeaux-Begles	38
5	Montferrand	38
6	Pau	36
7	Dax	36
8	Colomiers	34
9	Rumilly	33
10	Montpellier	24

Barrage

may ‘96	Périgueux	-	Nîmes	18–15

Last 16

may ‘96	Périgueux	-	Bourgoin	12–26

Last 8

may ‘96	Pau	-	Bourgoin	21–18

Semifinals

may '96	Brive	-	Pau	23–21

Final

Castaignède (2) Castaignède

FRA Guy Novès

FRA Laurent Seigne

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