# 1967–68 French Rugby Union Championship

The 1967–68 French Rugby Union Championship was contested by 64 teams divided in 8 pools. The first four of each pool, were qualified for the "last 32".
The Lourdes won the Championship 1967-68 after beating the Toulon in the final. The two teams tied the match (9–9) after overtime and Lourdes was declared champion for the greatest number of tries scored.

## Context

Il 1968 saw the "équipe de France" obtained his first Grand Chelem in the 1968 Five Nations Championship.
The final of the championship was delayed of 3 weeks for the riot of the évènements de Mai 1968
The French rugby lost Guy Boniface (Mont-de-Marsan) and Jean-Michel Capendeguy (Saint-Jean-de-Luz), dead in car accidents,
The Challenge Yves du Manoir was won in 1968 by the Narbonne that beat Dax in the final (14–6).

## Qualification round

In bold the qualified to next round
| Pool 1 Bayonne US Bressane Chambéry Figeac Foix Montauban Quillan Tulle | Pool 2 Albi Bègles Montferrand Pau Périgueux Saint-Girons Vichy Vienne | Pool 3 Biarritz Condom Graulhet Grenoble Limoges Racing SBUC Touloun |
| Pool 4 Avignon Cognac Dax La Rochelle Mazamet Saint-Claude Toulouse Valence | Pool 5 Béziers Brive Carmaux Castelsarrasin Chalon Lyon OU Saint-Junien Stadoceste | Pool 6 Aurillac Stade Beaumontois Dijon La Voulte Oyonnax Paris Université Club Mont-de-Marsan Toulouse Olympique EC |
| Pool 7 Angoulême Auch Bourgoin-Jallieu Castres Montluçon Narbonne Oloron Perpignan | Pool 8 Agen Cahors Carcassonne Lannemezan Lourdes Romans Saint-Sever Tyrosse | |

## "Last 32"

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Grenoble | Vichy | 11-6 |
| Graulhet | Condom | 11-0 |
| Touloun | La Rochelle | 12-6 |
| Bayonne | Montferrand | 10-8 |
| Narbonne | Oloron | 6-3 |
| Dax | Auch | 17-9 |
| Montauban | Dijon | 9-6 |
| Romans | Tulle | 14-9 |
| Lourdes | Valence | 19-5 |
| La Voulte | Quillan | 15-6 |
| Mont-de-Marsan | Bègles | 16-8 |
| Pau | Agen | 6-0 |
| Stadoceste | Angoulême | 14-6 |
| Béziers | Lannemezan | 0-0 |
| Brive | Toulouse Olympique EC | 11-3 |
| Toulouse | Carmaux | 14-12 |

## "Last 16"

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Grenoble | Graulhet | 14-3 |
| Touloun | Bayonne | 20-13 |
| Narbonne | Dax | 9-0 |
| Montauban | Romans | 11-6 |
| Lourdes | La Voulte | 47-9 |
| Mont-de-Marsan | Pau | 8-3 |
| Stadoceste | Béziers | 6-0 |
| Brive | Toulose | 22-9 |

## Quarter of finals

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Grenoble | Toulon | 3-18 |
| Narbonne | Montauban | 30-0 |
| Lourdes | Mont-de-Marsan | 9-3 |
| Stadoceste | Brive | 22-12 |

## Semifinals

| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Touloun | Narbonne | 14-9 |
| Lourdes | Stadoceste | 15-6 |

## Final

| Teams | Lourdes - Toulon |
| Score | 9-9 |
| Date | 16 June 1968 |
| Venue | Stadium Municipal, Toulouse |
| Referee | Charles Durant |
| Line-up | |
| Lourdes | Jean Bourdette, René Trucco, Pierre Doumecq, Guy Cazenave, Jean-Pierre Massebœuf, Serge Dunet, Michel Hauser, Michel Crauste, Jean-Henri Mir, Jean Gachassin, André Campaes, Michel Arnaudet, Raymond Halçaren, Jean-Pierre Latanne, Bertrand Fourcade |
| Touloun | Noël Vadella, Georges Fabre, Arnaldo Gruarin, Jean-Pierre Mouysset, André Herrero, Jean-Pierre Monnet, Christian Carrère, Daniel Hache, Louis Irastorza, Paul Bos, Jean-Pierre Carreras, Roger Fabien, Blaise Salvarelli, Basile Moraitis, Bernard Labouré |
| Scorers | |
| Lourdes | 2 tries Latanne, 1 drop Gachassin |
| Touloun | 2 penalties and 1 drop Labouré |
The facts of May 1968 retarded of three weeks of this match.
As consequence, was changed the rules: in case of equity at the end of over time, will be declared champion Lourdes that score 2 tries against none. This is also because the national team had to start for the 1968 France rugby union team tour to Nez Zealand.