# 1964–65 French Rugby Union Championship

The 1964–65 French Rugby Union Championship was contested by 56 teams divided into 7 pools.
The four first teams from each pool, along with the best four teams classified fifth in the pools, qualified for the single-elimination portion of the tournament, the "last 32".
Agen won the championship, beating Brive in the final.

## Context

The 1965 Five Nations Championship was won by Wales, which lost (13–22) to France.
The Challenge Yves du Manoir was won by Cognac, which beat Perpignan 5–3.

## Qualification round

Teams in bold qualified for the next round.
| Pool 1 US Bressane Castres Graulhet Lourdes Pau Périgueux Saint-Sever Toulouse Olympique EC | Pool 2 Béziers Biarritz Chalon Cognac Dijon La Rochelle Romans Saint-Girons | Pool 3 Aurillac Brive Lannemezan Le Creusot Saint-Claude Carmaux Stadoceste Vienne |
| Pool 4 Angoulême La Voulte Lyon OU Narbonne Toulouse Tulle Tyrosse Valence | Pool 5 Agen Albi Chambéry Limoges Mazamet Racing AS Saint-Junien Touloun | Pool 6 Condom (Condom) Dax Grenoble Montauban Perpignan Paris Université Club SBUC Mont-de-Marsan |
| Pool 7 Auch Bayonne Bègles Cahors Foix (Foix) Montferrand Quillan Vichy | | |

## Last 32

Teams in bold advanced to the next round.
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Agen | Cognac | 8–6 |
| Limoges | Aurillac | 3–0 |
| Tulle | Racing | 9–5 |
| Bègles | Lourdes | 12–3 |
| La Voulte | Bayonne | 25–6 |
| La Rochelle | Chalon | 13–12 |
| Béziers | Vichy | 17–6 |
| Angoulême | Montferrand | 6–0 |
| Brive | Narbonne | 9–3 |
| Toulon | Dax | 11–9 |
| Graulhet | Perpignan | 11–8 |
| Montauban | Biarritz | 14–3 |
| Mont-de-Marsan | Vienne | 16–9 |
| Auch | Grenoble | 3–12 (see note below) |
| Stadoceste | Toulose | 14–6 |
| Périgueux | Pau | 11–6 |
Note: Grenoble beat Auch 12–3 but was disqualified, because lined a forme "rugby league" player.

## Last 16

Teams in bold advanced to the next round.
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Agen | Limoges | 22–3 |
| Tulle | Bègles | 9–8 |
| La Voulte | La Rochelle | 6–0 |
| Béziers | Angoulême | 3–0 |
| Brive | Toulon | 8–3 |
| Graulhet | Montauban | 6–3 |
| Mont-de-Marsan | Auch | 12–6 |
| Stadoceste | Périgueux | 30–6 |

## Quarterfinals

Teams in bold advanced to the next round.
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Agen | Tulle | 22–3 |
| La Voulte | Béziers | 12–0 |
| Brive | Graulhet | 5–0 |
| Mont-de-Marsan | Stadoceste | 14–9 |

## Semifinals

Teams in bold advanced to the final.
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Agen | La Voulte | 21–14 |
| Brive | Mont-de-Marsan | 14–6 |
La Voulte was eliminated because they had three players out for injuries in the second half.
During the Brive versus Mont de Marsan match, the referee sent off one player of each team. The player from Brive, Normand, was allowed to play in the final match.

## Final

| Teams | Agen – Brive |
| Score | 15-8 |
| Date | 23 May 1965 |
| Venue | Stade Gerland, Lyon |
| Referee | Bernard Marie |
| Line-up | |
| Agen | Marius Lagiewski, Jean-Claude Malbet, Raymond Palladin, Jacques Fort, Michel Lasserre, Michel Sitjar, Serge Viotto, Francesco Zani, Pierre Lacroix, Jean-Claude Hiquet, Jean-Claude Soula, Jean-Pierre Razat, Pierre Gruppi, Bernard Pomiès, Jean-Louis Dehez, Serge Méricq, Georges Cavailles, Claude Salesse |
| Brive | Pierre Marsaud, Pierre Bessot, Claude Freyssinet, Jean Normand, Roger Fite, Marcel Lewin, Gérard Burguet, Jean-Pierre Delfour, Marcel Puget, Jean-Claude Roques, Serge Castiglioni, Michel Marot, Claude Besson, Pierre Besson, Pierre Villepreux |
| Scorers | |
| Agen | 2 tries by Razat and Sitjar, 2 penalties, and 1 drop by Dehez |
| Brive | 2 tries by Roques and P.Besson, and 1 conversion by Villepreux |