1989–90 French Rugby Union Championship Explained

Le Racing won The 1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship [after beating [[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|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

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

In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.

Team 1	Team 2	1st match	2nd match
width=150		width=150	Toulouse	6-13	3-33
	Narbonne	10-13	12-9
	Racing	6-9	6-40
	Grenoble	19-12	0-28
	Touloun	6-3	12-30
Agen		45-3	28-3
Montferrand		31-18	12-21
	Dax	18-18	12-29

In bold the clubs qualified for the next round

Team 1	Team 2	Results
width=150		width=150	Racing	14-21
Agen	Montferrand	9-3