1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship Explained

The 1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Toulouse that beat Toulon in the final.

Toulouse won his 10th bouclier de Brennus, the third in the 80's.

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 the 32 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

The teams are listed as the ranking, in bold the teams admitted to "last 16" round.

Pool 1 Toulouse Dax Montferrand Agen Bourgoin-Jallieu Cognac Montchanin Villeneuve-sur-Lot	Pool 2 Stadoceste Blagnac SCR Lourdes Bègles-Bordeaux Le Creusot Stade Bagnérais Perpignan Nîmes
Pool 3 Touloun Bayonne Brive Graulhet Aurillac Mont-de-Marsan US Colomiers Bergerac	Pool 4 Grenoble Béziers Narbonne Racing Hagetmau Villefranche de Lauragais RRC Nice Boucau Tarnos

In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.

Team 1	Team 2	1st match	2nd match
width=150	Agen	width=150		15-15	41-15
	Tarbes	16-15	0-22
	Toulouse	3-47	15-27
Lourdes		6-10	24-9
	Grenoble	3-36	9-15
Narbonne		39-9	24-18
Montferrand	Touloun	21-17	9-29
	Béziers	12-22	6-32

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Results
width=150		width=150	Toulouse	9-18
	Toulon	3-20

Teams	Toulouse - Toulon
Score	18-12 (15-9)
Date	27 May 1989
Venue	Parc des Princes, Paris
Referee	Guy Maurette
Line-up
Toulouse	bgcolor=#EEEEEE	Serge Laïrle (Gérard Portolan 73), Patrick Soula, Claude Portolan, Hugues Miorin, Jean-Marie Cadieu, Thierry Maset (Hervé Lecomte 69), Karl Janik, Albert Cigagna, Jérôme Cazalbou, Philippe Rougé-Thomas, David Berty, Denis Charvet, Didier Codorniou, Jean-Michel Rancoule, Joël Dupuy Not on the ground : Michel Lopez, Éric Bonneval, Thierry Savio, Bruno Coumes
Toulon	bgcolor=#EEEEEE	Manu Diaz, Jean-Michel Casalini (Jean-Louis Raibaut 77), Yann Braendlin, Yvan Roux, Jean-Charles Orso (Jean-Pierre Alarcon 80), Éric Champ, Jean-François Tordo, Eric Melville, Jérôme Gallion, Christian Cauvy, Pascal Jehl, Alain Carbonel, Pierre Trémouille, Éric Fourniols, Jérôme Bianchi Not on the ground : Thierry Louvet, Philippe Sauton, Thierry Ruet, Frédéric Saint-Sardos
Scorers
Toulouse	2 tries Laîrle (1) and Charvet (31), 2 conversions de Dupuy and 1 drop Charvet (11), 1 drop Dupuy (70)
Touloun	3 penalties Bianchi (15,21,58), 1 drop Cauvy (6)