# 2003–04 Top 16 season

The 2003–04 Top 16 season was the top level of French club rugby in 2003–04. The competition was played by 16 teams. In the first stage, two pools of 8 played. The first 4 of each pool were admitted to the "top 8" to play for the title, the other 4 to a relegation tournament.

## First round

(3 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 1 point for a loss)

### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Bourgoin | 14 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 352 | 280 | +72 | 32 |
| 2 | Brive | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 357 | 301 | +56 | 31 |
| 3 | Castres | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 297 | 281 | +16 | 31 |
| 4 | Stade Français | 14 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 299 | 263 | +36 | 28 |
| 5 | Agen | 14 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 292 | 269 | +23 | 28 |
| 6 | Pau | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 281 | 343 | −62 | 27 |
| 7 | Montferrand | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 226 | 278 | −52 | 25 |
| 8 | Colomiers | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 238 | 327 | −89 | 22 |

### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Toulouse | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 371 | 319 | +52 | 34 |
| 2 | Perpignan | 14 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 357 | 284 | +73 | 32 |
| 3 | Biarritz | 14 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 335 | 273 | +62 | 30 |
| 4 | Béziers | 14 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 274 | 275 | −1 | 30 |
| 5 | Montpellier | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 285 | 288 | −3 | 26 |
| 6 | Narbonne | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 296 | 303 | −7 | 26 |
| 7 | Grenoble | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 306 | 362 | −56 | 24 |
| 8 | Montauban | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 216 | 336 | −120 | 22 |

## Relegation pool

The teams total sum of the points obtained in the first round and the points obtained in the matches played with the 4 teams from the other group (home and away).
| Home \ Away | AGE | COL | GRE | MTB | MFR | MPL | NAR | PAU |
| SU Agen | | | 12–16 | 22–0 | | 44–3 | 43–21 | |
| US Colomiers | | | 25–16 | 9–9 | | 25–32 | 70–19 | |
| FC Grenoble | 19–19 | 26–10 | | | 15–26 | | | 40–29 |
| US Montauban | 32–10 | 19–23 | | | 19–22 | | | 46–12 |
| Montferrand | | | 44–3 | 47–10 | | 34–7 | 45–14 | |
| Montpellier | 33–14 | 27–18 | | | 26–13 | | | 34–7 |
| RC Narbonne | 43–35 | 38–16 | | | 28–19 | | | 29–18 |
| Pau | | | 81–17 | 34–23 | | 16–0 | 68–26 | |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Montferrand | 22 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 476 | 400 | +76 | 45 |
| 2 | Montpellier | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 457 | 459 | −2 | 44 |
| 3 | Agen | 22 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 491 | 436 | +55 | 43 |
| 4 | Pau | 22 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 546 | 558 | −12 | 43 |
| 5 | Narbonne | 22 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 514 | 617 | −103 | 42 |
| 6 | FC Grenoble | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 458 | 408 | +50 | 39 |
| 7 | Clomiers | 22 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 434 | 513 | −79 | 37 |
| 8 | Montauban | 22 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 374 | 515 | −141 | 35 |

## Top 8

Two Pool of 4 teams. The first two of each pool were qualified for semifinals. Them and the third also qualified for 2004–05 Heineken Cup

### Pool A

* 8 May 2004
| USA Perpignan | 35–21 | CS Bourgoin-Jallieu |
* 8 May 2004
| AS Béziers | 15–19 | Castres Olympique |
* 14 May 2004
| Castres Olympique | 15–26 | USA Perpignan |
* 15 May 2004
| CS Bourgoin-Jallieu | 33–10 | AS Béziers |
* 21 May 2004
| AS Béziers | 8–27 | USA Perpignan |
* 22 May 2004
| Castres Olympique | 25–18 | CS Bourgoin-Jallieu |
* 28 May 2004
| CS Bourgoin-Jallieu | 35–26 | Castres Olympique |
* 29 May 2004
| USA Perpignan | 45–6 | AS Béziers |
* 4 June 2004
| CS Bourgoin-Jallieu | 18–13 | USA Perpignan |
* 5 June 2004
| Castres Olympique | 38–9 | AS Béziers |
* 12 June 2004
| AS Béziers | 28–22 | CS Bourgoin-Jallieu |
* 12 June 2004
| USA Perpignan | 23–7 | Castres Olympique |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | USA Perpignan | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 170 | 74 | +96 | 16 |
| 2 | CS Bourgoin-Jallieu | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 147 | 137 | +10 | 12 |
| 3 | Castres Olympique | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 130 | 126 | +4 | 12 |
| 4 | AS Béziers | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 75 | 185 | −110 | 8 |

### Pool B

* 7 May 2004
| Stade Français | 13–6 | Biarritz |
* 8 May 2004
| Brive | 9–29 | Toulouse |
* 15 May 2004
| Toulouse | 18–24 | Stade Français |
* 15 May 2004
| Biarritz | 38–11 | Brive |
* 22 May 2004
| Stade Français | 34–10 | Brive |
* 26 May 2004
| Biarritz | 25–26 | Toulouse |
* 29 May 2004
| Brive | 24–19 | Stade Français |
* 30 May 2004
| Toulouse | 25–18 | Biarritz |
* 5 June 2004
| Biarritz | 25–12 | Stade Français |
* 5 June 2004
| Toulouse | 21–8 | Brive |
* 12 June 2004
| Brive | 20–37 | Biarritz |
* 12 June 2004
| Stade Français | 49–17 | Toulouse |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Stade Français | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 151 | 100 | +51 | 14 |
| 2 | Toulouse | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 136 | 133 | +3 | 14 |
| 3 | Biarritz | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 149 | 107 | +42 | 12 |
| 4 | Brive | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 82 | 178 | −96 | 8 |

## Semi-finals

* 19 June 2004
| CS Bourgoin-Jallieu | 21–31 | Stade Français |
* Stade Gerland, Lyon
* 20 June 2004
| USA Perpignan | 18–16 | Toulouse |
* Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier

## Final

* 26 June 2004
| Perpignan | 20–38 | Stade Français |
| Try: Bomati 68' Edmonds 77' Con: Giannantonio (2) 68', 77' Pen: Giannantonio (2) 5', 29' | | Try: Bergamasco 53' Corleto 60' Con: Domínguez 53' Skrela 60' Pen: Domínguez (5) 7', 14', 25', 42', 46' Skrela 57' Drop: Dominici 30' Domínguez 33' |
* Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 79,722 Referee: Joël Jutge (France)
Diego Giannantonio :
| RW | 14 | Pascal Bomati |
| OC | 13 | David Marty | | 64' |
| IC | 12 | Christophe Manas |
| LW | 11 | Dan Luger | | 34' |
| FH | 10 | Manny Edmonds |
| SH | 9 | Ludovic Loustau |
| N8 | 8 | Rimas Álvarez Kairelis | 51' to 61' |
| OF | 7 | Bernard Goutta (c) |
| BF | 6 | Grégory Le Corvec | | 52' |
| RL | 5 | Christophe Porcu | | 52' |
| LL | 4 | Colin Gaston |
| TP | 3 | Nicolas Mas |
| HK | 2 | Michel Konieck | | 58' |
| LP | 1 | Perry Freshwater |
| Replacements: |||
| HK | 16 | Nicolas Grelon | | 58' |
| PR | 17 | Alejandro Moreno |
| LK | 18 | Mick O'Driscoll | | 52' |
| N8 | 19 | Scott Robertson | | 52' |
| SH | 20 | Jérôme Fillol |
| WG | 21 | David Janin | | 34' |
| FH | 22 | Nicolas Laharrague | | 64' |
| Coach: |||
| Olivier Saïsset ||||
78' :
| RW | 14 | Juan Martín Hernández |
| OC | 13 | Stéphane Glas |
| IC | 12 | Brian Liebenberg |
| LW | 11 | Christophe Dominici |
| FH | 10 | Diego Domínguez | 55' |
| SH | 9 | Agustín Pichot | 78' |
| N8 | 8 | Patrick Tabacco |
| OF | 7 | Mauro Bergamasco |
| BF | 6 | Pierre Rabadan | 52' |
| RL | 5 | Mike James |
| LL | 4 | David Auradou (c) |
| TP | 3 | Pieter de Villiers |
| HK | 2 | Mathieu Blin | 55' |
| LP | 1 | Sylvain Marconnet | 62' |
| Replacements: |||
| HK | 16 | Benoît August | 55' |
| PR | 17 | Pablo Lemoine | 62' |
| LK | 18 | Arnaud Marchois |
| FL | 19 | Christophe Moni | 52' |
| SH | 20 | Grégory Mahé | 78' |
| FH | 21 | David Skrela | 55' |
| WG | 22 | Thomas Lombard | 78' |
| Coach: |||
| Nick Mallett ||||