# 1977–78 French Rugby Union Championship

The 1977–78 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Béziers beating Montferrand in the final.

## Formula

The "elite" (group A) were formed by five pools of eight clubs.
Were 25 the teams of group A qualified for the knockout stages with seven team coming from group B, also formed by 40 teams.
Both group were arranged in 5 pools of 8 teams.

## Qualification Round
### Group A

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round. The teams are listed according to the final ranking
| Pool 1 Béziers Lourdes Agen Bègles Auch Tyrosse Le Creusot Vichy | Pool 2 Touloun Perpignan Brive Stadoceste Montauban Bourgoin-Jallieu AS Mérignac Albi | Pool 3 RRC Nice Biarritz Toulouse US Bressane Aurillac Stade Beaumontois Mazamet Chambéry |
| Pool 4 Romans Bayonne Graulhet Oloron Stade Bagnérais La Rochelle Montchanin Rodez | Pool 5 Narbonne Montferrand Valence Dax Tulle Carcassonne La Voulte US Salles | |

## Group B

The teams qualified are here listed:
| Avignon Saint-Saturnin Boucau Mont de Marsan Pau | Racing Saint-Jean-de-Luz Thuir |

## Knockout stage
### "Last 32"

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Béziers | Thuir | 29-15 |
| Oloron | US Bressane | 19-10 |
| Perpignan | Auch | 26-7 |
| Biarritz | Aurillac | 23-9 |
| Romans | Boucau | 24-3 |
| Toulouse | Bègles | 27-10 |
| RRC Nice | Saint-Jean-de-Luz | 22-19 |
| Graulhet | Stade Bagnérais | 11-27 |
| Agen | Tulle | 16-10 |
| Lourdes | Pau | 39-10 |
| Valence | Dax | 12-9 |
| Touloun | Mont de Marsan | 22-7 |
| Montferrand | Montauban | 36-19 |
| Bayonne | Racing | 29-9 |
| Brive | Stadoceste | 6-0 |
| Narbonne | Avignon Saint-Saturnin | 6-0 |

### "Last 16"

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Béziers | Oloron | 33-11 |
| Perpignan | Biarritz | 4-3 |
| Romans | Toulouse | 6-18 |
| RRC Nice | Stade Bagnérais | 6-22 |
| Agen | Lourdes | 10-16 |
| Valence | Toulon | 22-9 |
| Montferrand | Bayonne | 7-0 |
| Brive | Narbonne | 16-28 |

### Quarter of finals

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Béziers | Perpignan | 26-3 |
| Toulouse | Stade Bagnérais | 18-14 |
| Lourdes | Valence | 9-15 |
| Montferrand | Narbonne | 22-18 |

### Semifinals

| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Béziers | Toulose | 12-9 |
| Valence | Montferrand | 12-20 |

## Final

| Teams | Béziers - Montferrand |
| Score | 31-09 |
| Date | 20 May 1978 |
| Venue | Parc des Princes, Paris |
| Referee | Francis Flingou |
| Line-up | |
| Béziers | Armand Vaquerin, Alain Paco, Jean-Louis Martin, Georges Senal, Michel Palmié, Olivier Saïsset, Christian Pesteil, Alain Estève, Richard Astre, Henri Cabrol, René Séguier, Henri Mioch, Jean-Luc Rivallo, Michel Fabre, Jack Cantoni Remplaçants : Pierre Lacans, Francis Lugans |
| Montferrand | Jacques Fouilhoux, Jean-Marc Gerbaulet, Patrick Boucheix, Henri Bourdillon, Guy Gasparotto, Gérard Costes, Jean-Paul Cristina, Yves Cristina, Jean-Pierre Romeu, André Dubertrand, Joël Molenat, Michel Luciani, Jean-Michel Dubertrand, Michel Droitecourt Remplaçants : Jacques Besson, Joseph Bravo, Jacky Brugiroux |
| Scorers | |
| Béziers | 5 tries Paco, Martin, Séguier, Fabre and 1 penalty try, 4 conversions Cabrol (2) and Cantoni (2), 1 penalty Cabrol |
| Montferrand | 1 try Molenat, 1 conversion Romeu, 1 drop Droitecourt |