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2007–08 Rugby Pro D2 season

French rugby union club competition

French rugby union club competition

FieldValue
imagesize100px
countriesFrance
championsToulon
promotedToulon
Mont-de-Marsan
relegatedBlagnac
USA Limoges
matches243
tries744
top try scorerFRA Florian Ninard (13)
prevseason2006–07
nextseason2008–09

Mont-de-Marsan USA Limoges The 2007-08 Rugby Pro D2 was a French rugby union club competition. The season ran alongside the 2007-08 Top 14 competition, which is the highest club competition. Both competitions were operated by the Ligue nationale de rugby (LNR).

At the end of the previous season, Auch were champions and thus automatically promoted to Top 14. They were eventually followed by Dax who beat La Rochelle in the final providing the second promotion place. Colomiers were relegated to Fédérale 1; Limoges finished in a relegation spot, but were reprieved when Gaillac were denied a professional license for the 2007-08 season due to serious financial problems. Aurillac and Blagnac earned promotion from Fédérale 1.

The new season showed a bright future for two particular clubs who signed several quality players in the transfer market in hopes of promotion at the end of the season. Some notables include George Gregan, Victor Matfield, Andrew Mehrtens and Anton Oliver who all signed with Toulon. The team also signed former All Black and Toulon player Tana Umaga as their Manager Sportif. Meanwhile, Sireli Bobo, Carlo Festuccia and Argentine captain Agustín Pichot moved to Racing Métro. Pichot's move wasn't a long distance one since he was simply switching from one Parisian team to the other.

Toulon jumped to an early lead on the ladder and never looked back, ultimately clinching the title and automatic promotion with two rounds to spare. Mont-de-Marsan won the promotion playoffs, defeating Racing Métro in the final, to secure the second promotion place. At the other end of the table, Limoges and Blagnac finished in the relegation places. Unlike the previous season, when Limoges were spared relegation due to the financial woes of Gaillac, all of the clubs above the bottom two places passed their required postseason financial audits, ensuring that both of the bottom two teams would go down.

This season, LNR trialled a modification to the bonus point system in both the Top 14 and Pro D2. The system being used this season was:

  • 4 points for a win.
  • 2 points for a draw.
  • 1 "bonus" point for winning while scoring at least 3 more tries than the opponent. This replaces the standard bonus point for scoring 4 tries regardless of the match result.
  • 1 "bonus" point for losing by 7 points (or less).

This system was explicitly intended to prevent a losing team from earning two bonus points, as is possible under the standard system.

Season table

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Champions automatically promoted to Top 14
Winner of playoffs between second- through fifth-place teams for the second promotion place
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Remaining participants in promotion playoffs
-
Bottom two teams are relegated to Fédérale 1. Blagnac was later relegated further, to Fédérale 2, due to financial issues.
}
ClubTotal pointsBonus pointsMatch pointsGamesWonDrawnLostPoints forPoints againstDiff
1Toulon1061690302217873495
2Racing Métro991386302118683426
3Mont-de-Marsan89782301938582488
4Lyon8315683017013604424
5La Rochelle8113683017013540443
6Béziers819723017211556505
7Agen819723017211575430
8Grenoble779683016212506454
9Oyonnax739643016014612545
10Pau6913563014016533576
11Aurillac6610563014016609691
12Bordeaux-Bègles6111503012117468526
13Narbonne577503012117503626
14Tarbes451134308121428705
15Limoges31724305223340791
15Blagnac27720304224469756

Results

19LimogesNarbonne26

;; Round 2 Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 november

6NarbonneAurillac17

|}

9LimogesBlagnac9

;; Round 4 Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 november

62SU AgenLimoges0

|}

12NarbonneGrenoble23

;; Round 6 Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 december

15AurillacRacing Métro 929

|}

28La RochelleAurillac10

;; Round 8 Saturday 15 december and Sunday 9 march

28Racing Métro 92Grenoble13

|}

22GrenoblePau13

;; Round 10 Saturday 5 january and Sunday 6 january

36ToulonLa Rochelle0

|}

17La RochelleSU Agen6

;; Round 12 Saturday 19 january and Sunday 20 january

14AurillacToulon23

|}

19PauAurillac17

;; Round 14 Saturday 2 february and Sunday 3 february

19La RochelleNarbonne0

|}

14NarbonnePau8

;; Round 16 Saturday 16 february and Sunday 17 february

26NarbonneLimoges10

|}

38ToulonBlagnac9

;; Round 18 Saturday 1 march and Sunday 2 march

37SU AgenNarbonne11

|}

22NarbonneBlagnac22

;; Round 20 Saturday 22 march and Sunday 23 march

6GrenobleNarbonne13

|}

Promotion playoffs

All times CET.

Semifinals

  • 15 June, 15:15 — Mont-de-Marsan 12–6 Lyon
  • 15 June, 19:00 — Racing Métro 23–17 La Rochelle

Final

  • 21 June, 15:00 at Limoges — Racing Métro 23–32 Mont-de-Marsan (extra time)

References

  1. (2007-06-27). "French try out new bonus point system". Planet-Rugby.com.
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