# 1989–90 French Rugby Union Championship

Le Racing won The 1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship [after beating Agen in the final.
Le Racing won his first bouclier de Brennus from 1959

## Formula

* The tournament was played by 80 clubs divided in sixteen pools of five. .
* The two better of each pool (a sum of 32 clubs) were admitted to the group A to play for the title
* In the second round th e32 clubs of group A were divided in four pools of eight.
* The four better of each pool of group A (16 clubs) were qualified to play the knockout stage

## Group A qualification round to knockout stage

The teams are listed as the ranking, in bold the teams admitted to "last 16" round.
| Pool 1 Dax Grenoble US Colomiers Auch Chalon La Rochelle Blagnac SCR Paris Université Club | Pool 2 Racing Montferrand Bègles-Bordeaux Biarritz Bayonne Bourgoin-Jallieu Graulhet Voiron |
| Pool 3 Agen Béziers Touloun Nîmes RRC Nice Lourdes Hagetmau Cognac | Pool 4 Toulouse Narbonne Brive Castres Stadoceste Tyrosse Perpignan FCS Rumilly |

## "Last 16"

In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.
| Team 1 | Team 2 | 1st match | 2nd match |
| Nîmes | Toulouse | 6-13 | 3-33 |
| Béziers | Narbonne | 10-13 | 12-9 |
| Castres | Racing | 6-9 | 6-40 |
| Brive | Grenoble | 19-12 | 0-28 |
| US Colomiers | Touloun | 6-3 | 12-30 |
| Agen | Auch | 45-3 | 28-3 |
| Montferrand | Bègles-Bordeaux | 31-18 | 12-21 |
| Biarritz | Dax | 18-18 | 12-29 |

## Quarter of finals

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Toulouse | Narbonne | 10-9 |
| Racing | Grenoble | 27-21 |
| Toulon | Agen | 0-6 |
| Montferrand | Dax | 34-12 |

## Semifinals

| Team 1 | Team 2 | Results |
| Toulose | Racing | 14-21 |
| Agen | Montferrand | 9-3 |

## Final

* 26 May 1990
| Racing Club de France | 22 – 12 (after extra time) | Agen |
| Try: Cabannes Abadie Con: Pouyau Pen: Pouyau (2) Lafond Abadie | | Pen: Campan Montlaur (2) Drop: Montlaur |
* Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,069 Referee: Claude Debat
| FB | 15 | Jean-Baptiste Lafond |
| RW | 14 | Philippe Guillard |
| OC | 13 | Éric Blanc |
| IC | 12 | Franck Mesnel |
| LW | 11 | Geofrey Abadie |
| FH | 10 | Didier Pouyau |
| SH | 9 | Jean-Philippe Saffore |
| N8 | 8 | Christophe Deslandes | |
| OF | 7 | Laurent Cabannes |
| BF | 6 | Xavier Blond | 75' |
| RL | 5 | Patrick Serrière (c) |
| LL | 4 | Michel Tachdjian | |
| TP | 3 | Philippe Voisin | 43' |
| HK | 2 | Jean-Pierre Genet |
| LP | 1 | Laurent Bénézech |
| Substitutions: ||
| HK | 16 | Philippe Dubreuille |
| PR | 17 | Murray Dawson | 43' |
| FL | 18 | Éric Dalle | 75' |
| SH | 19 | Stéphane Jourdan |
| WG | 20 | Karim Abbou |
| CE | 21 | Jean-Luc Pelaez |
| Coach: ||
| Christian Lanta ||
| FB | 15 | Bernard Lacombe |
| RW | 14 | Olivier Campan |
| OC | 13 | Philippe Sella |
| IC | 12 | Patrick Schattel |
| LW | 11 | Éric Gleyze |
| FH | 10 | Pierre Montlaur |
| SH | 9 | Pierre Berbizier (c) |
| N8 | 8 | Dominique Erbani |
| OF | 7 | Philippe Benetton |
| BF | 6 | Jacques Gratton |
| RL | 5 | Bernard Mazzer | |
| LL | 4 | Abdelatif Benazzi |
| TP | 3 | Laurent Seigne |
| HK | 2 | Philippe Berbizier | 81' |
| LP | 1 | Jean-Louis Tolot |
| Substitutions: ||
| PR | 16 | Grégoire Lascubé | 81' |
| LK | 17 | Patrick Pujade | |
| FL | 18 | Philippe Berniès |
| FL | 19 | Frédéric Maffre |
| SH | 20 | Michel Murat |
| CE | 21 | Guillaume Bouic |
| Coach: ||
| Michel Couturas ||