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1998–99 French Rugby Union Championship

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Field	Value
countries	France
champions	Toulouse
count	15
runnersup	Montferrand
relegated	Nice, Béziers
prevseason	1998–99
nextseason	2000–01

The 1998–99 French Rugby Union Championship was played by 24 teams divided in the preliminary phase into three pools of 8. The first five teams from each pool and the best 6th placed were admitted to second round. The other played a relegation tournament divided in two pools.

Toulouse won the title, beating Montferrand in the final (that lose for 6th time the final).

First round

Pos	Team	Points
1	Stade Français	34
2	Biarritz	34
3	Narbonne	32
4	Castres	32
5	Bourgoin	29
6	Toulon	28
7	Aurillac	21
8	Nîmes	14

Pool 2

Pos	Team	Points
1	Perpignan	34
2	Montferrand	33
3	Agen	32
4	Dax	31
5	Bègles-Bordeaux	29
6	Béziers	28
7	Auch	20
8	Nice	17

Pool 3

Pos	Team	Points
1	Toulouse	38
2	Brive	36
3	Pau	33
4	Grenoble	30
5	Colomiers	26
6	Périgueux	23
7	Racing Paris	20
8	La Rochelle	18

|} Béziers and Toulon had both 28 points. The "best 6th" was Toulon due to having less "red Cards" during the season.

Second round

The first of each pools were qualified to quarter of finals

Pos	Team	Points
1	Toulouse	15
2	Bourgoin	13
3	Biarritz	10
4	Agen	10

Pool 2

Pos	Team	Points
1	Colomiers	16
2	Stade Français	12
3	Narbonne	10
4	Pau	10

Pool 3

Pos	Team	Points
1	CA Bègles-Bordeaux	14
2	Castres	14
3	Perpignan	12
4	Dax	8

Pool 4

Pos	Team	Points
1	Montferrand	14
2	Grenoble	12
3	Toulon	12
4	Brive	10

Grenoble was 2nd due to having less "red cards" during the season .

Quarters of final

16 may	Colomiers	-	Grenoble	15–29

Semifinals

22 may	Toulouse	-	Bourgoin	26–17

Final

Desbrosse

FRA Guy Novès

FRA Christophe Mombet

Relegation Pools

Pos	Team	Points
1	Auch	14
2	Racing Paris	14
3	Nîmes	10
4	Béziers	10

Béziers was classified last for worst point difference in the direct matches (Nîmes-Béziers 15–5; 36–37), and was relegated in Pro D2.

Pool 2

Pos	Team	Points
1	Aurillac	15
2	Périgueux	11
3	La Rochelle	9
4	Nice	5

(ranking after 5 on 6)

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