The 2007-08 Top 14 Competition was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 domestic rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 club competition, operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby

Ligue Nationale de Rugby

The Top 14 is a rugby union club competition which is played in France. The Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the French National Rugby League, also known by its French initialism of LNR. There is promotion and relegation between the Top 14 and the next level down, the...

 (LNR). Because France hosted the 2007 Rugby World Cup

2007 Rugby World Cup

The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...

, the competition did not begin at its normal time of August, but instead started on the last weekend in October 2007, one week after the Rugby World Cup final. The league compensated for the late start by playing on several weekends that it normally skips, namely the weekends of the 2008 Six Nations Championship

2008 Six Nations Championship

The 2008 Six Nations Championship, known as the 2008 RBS 6 Nations because of the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the ninth series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 114th...

 and the semifinals and final of the 2007-08 Heineken Cup

2007-08 Heineken Cup

The 2007–08 Heineken Cup was the 13th edition of the Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby.The start of the tournament was delayed because of the 2007 Rugby World Cup...

. The season ended on June 28, 2008, with Toulouse

Stade Toulousain

Stade Toulousain, also referred to as Toulouse, is a French rugby union club from Toulouse in Midi-Pyrénées. Toulouse is one of the finest rugby clubs in Europe, having won the Heineken Cup four times – in 1996, 2003, 2005 and 2010. They were also runners-up in 2004 and 2008 against London Wasps...

 defeating regular-season league leader Clermont

ASM Clermont Auvergne

Association Sportive Montferrandaise Clermont Auvergne are a French rugby union club from Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne that currently competes in Top 14, the top level of the French league system, ASMCA are the were the 2010 France Top 14 Champions. It is the rugby section of the multi-sport club...

 26–20 in the final and thereby lifting the Bouclier de Brennus

Bouclier de Brennus

The Bouclier de Brennus, or Brennus Shield in English, is a trophy awarded to the winners of the French rugby union domestic league.The shield was not named, as it is often believed, after the famous Gallic warrior Brennus but rather artist Charles Brennus, co-founder of the USFSA, the original...

.

This year's edition of the Top 14 welcomed Auch

FC Auch Gers

Football Club Auch Gers is a French rugby union club based in Auch in Midi-Pyrénées currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second tier of the country's professional league system. In recent years, they have bounced between the first-level Top 14 and Pro D2...

 and Dax

US Dax

Union Sportive Dacquoise, also known as US Dax, is a French rugby union club currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the French league system....

, who earned promotion

Promotion and relegation

In many sports leagues around the world, promotion and relegation is a process that takes place at the end of each season. Through it, teams are transferred between divisions based on their performance that season...

 from Rugby Pro D2

Rugby Pro D2

Rugby Pro D2, also known as Pro D2 is the second level of domestic club rugby union in France, below the first division, Top 14. The competition was introduced in 2000. There is relegation and promotion between both the Top 14 and Fédérale 1, the third-level competition...

. Agen

SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne

Sporting Union Agen Lot-et-Garonne is a French rugby union club based in Agen in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. They currently play in the top flight of French professional rugby, Top 14; they were most recently promoted after winning the 2010 title in the second-level Pro D2. Agen also...

 and Narbonne

RC Narbonne

Racing Club de Narbonne Méditerannée is a French rugby union club that play in the second-level Rugby Pro D2, after finishing at the bottom of the 2006-07 Top 14 table....

 were relegated from the Top 14.

As in previous seasons, the top four clubs at the end of the home-and-away season advanced to a single-elimination playoff. The semifinals were held at neutral sites, with the final at Stade de France

Stade de France

The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, situated just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. It has an all-seater capacity of 80,000, making it the fifth largest stadium in Europe, and is used by both the France national football team and French rugby union team for...

. Going into the season, the top six clubs were guaranteed of berths in the 2008-09 Heineken Cup

Heineken Cup

The Heineken Cup is one of two annual rugby union competitions organised by European Rugby Cup involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from the six International Rugby Board countries in Europe whose national teams compete in the Six Nations Championship: England, France, Ireland,...

. Since Toulouse advanced to the 2007-08 Heineken Cup

2007-08 Heineken Cup

The 2007–08 Heineken Cup was the 13th edition of the Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby.The start of the tournament was delayed because of the 2007 Rugby World Cup...

 final against Irish

Irish Rugby Football Union

The Irish Rugby Football Union is the body managing rugby union in Ireland. The IRFU has its head office at 10/12 Lansdowne Road and home ground at Aviva Stadium, where Irish rugby union international matches are played...

 club Munster

Munster Rugby

Munster Rugby is an Irish professional rugby union team based in Munster, that competes in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup.The team represents the Irish Rugby Football Union Munster Branch which is one of four primary branches of the IRFU, and is responsible for rugby union in the Irish...

, thereby assuring a higher finish for a French team in that competition than for any team from England

Guinness Premiership

The English Premiership, also currently known as the Aviva Premiership because of the league's sponsorship by Aviva, is a professional league competition for rugby union football clubs in the top division of the English rugby system. There are twelve clubs in the Premiership...

 or Italy

Super 10 (Italian premiership)

The withdrawal of Viadana and Benetton Treviso from the league has been compounded by club mergers. Rugby Viadana, Gran Parma and Colorno have merged to form GranDucato Rugby. Overmach Parma and Noceto have merged to form Crociati, both new clubs to be based in Parma. These changes created 2...

, the seventh-place club also earned a berth in the 2008-09 Heineken Cup. The bottom two teams were provisionally relegated to Pro D2, with the possibility of one or both of the bottom teams to be reprieved if a team above them failed a postseason financial audit. This happened in 2007-08, as Albi

SC Albi

Sporting Club Albigeois is a professional French rugby union club playing the second-level Rugby Pro D2. During the past years it went back and forth between Top 14, the highest level of the French league system and the second-level Rugby Pro D2. Their last time in the Top 14 was for 2009–10 after...

 failed the audit, ultimately giving a reprieve to second-from bottom Dax.

This season, LNR trialled a modification to the bonus point system

Rugby union bonus points system

The Rugby union bonus points system is a method of deciding table points from a rugby union match. It was implemented in order to encourage attacking play throughout a match, to discourage repetitive goal-kicking, and to reward teams for "coming close" in losing efforts...

 in both the Top 14 and Pro D2. The system to be used this season was:

• 4 points for a win.
• 2 points for a draw.
• 1 "bonus" point for winning while scoring at least 3 more tries than the opponent. This replaces the standard bonus point for scoring 4 tries regardless of the match result.
• 1 "bonus" point for losing by 7 points (or less).

This system was explicitly intended to prevent a losing team from earning two bonus points, as is possible under the standard system.

• Second division: 2007-08 Rugby Pro D2 season
  2007-08 Rugby Pro D2 season
  The 2007-08 Rugby Pro D2 was a French rugby union club competition. The season ran alongside the 2007-08 Top 14 competition, which is the highest club competition. Both competitions were operated by the Ligue nationale de rugby ....
  
  

Popularity

The league has seen a major increase in attendance in recent years. In 2006-07, per-game attendance averaged 10,549, up from 9,288 in 2005-06 and 7,255 in 2004-05

2004-05 Top 16 season

-Final:Stade Français Paris: 1.Rodrigo Roncero, 2.Mathieu Blin, 3.Pieter de Villiers, 4.David Auradou, 5.Mike James, 6.Pierre Rabadan, 7.Rémy Martin, 8.Shaun Sowerby, 9.Agustín Pichot, 10.David Skrela, 11.Christophe Dominici, 12...

, when the league consisted of 16 teams instead of its current 14. The 2005-06 and 2006-07 totals are skewed to some degree because Stade Français drew over 79,000 fans to each of the two fixtures they played at Stade de France in both seasons. However, even if the Stade de France fixtures are not included, per-game attendance was 8,549 in 2005-06 and 9,267 in 2006-07, both well above the 2004-05 figures.

The final average attendance for the 2007-08 regular season was 10,966, another increase from the previous season. The LNR also reported that league-wide season ticket sales were up by 11% from 2006-07. The most-attended matches were the three Stade Français matches played at Stade de France, each of which drew more than 75,000, and Toulouse's home opener in Round 2 against Montpellier, which drew 34,791 at Stadium Municipal.

Table

Key to colors
	League champions; receive a place in the 2008-09 Heineken Cup Heineken Cup The Heineken Cup is one of two annual rugby union competitions organised by European Rugby Cup involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from the six International Rugby Board countries in Europe whose national teams compete in the Six Nations Championship: England, France, Ireland,... .
	Remaining participants in playoffs also receive places in the 2008-09 Heineken Cup Heineken Cup The Heineken Cup is one of two annual rugby union competitions organised by European Rugby Cup involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from the six International Rugby Board countries in Europe whose national teams compete in the Six Nations Championship: England, France, Ireland,... .
	Fifth and sixth place also receive automatic Heineken Cup berths.
	Seventh place receives a Heineken Cup berth because Toulouse advanced farther in the 2007-08 Heineken Cup 2007-08 Heineken Cup The 2007–08 Heineken Cup was the 13th edition of the Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby.The start of the tournament was delayed because of the 2007 Rugby World Cup...  than any team from England Guinness Premiership The English Premiership, also currently known as the Aviva Premiership because of the league's sponsorship by Aviva, is a professional league competition for rugby union football clubs in the top division of the English rugby system. There are twelve clubs in the Premiership...  or Italy Super 10 (Italian premiership) The withdrawal of Viadana and Benetton Treviso from the league has been compounded by club mergers. Rugby Viadana, Gran Parma and Colorno have merged to form GranDucato Rugby. Overmach Parma and Noceto have merged to form Crociati, both new clubs to be based in Parma. These changes created 2... .
	Relegated to Rugby Pro D2 Rugby Pro D2 Rugby Pro D2, also known as Pro D2 is the second level of domestic club rugby union in France, below the first division, Top 14. The competition was introduced in 2000. There is relegation and promotion between both the Top 14 and Fédérale 1, the third-level competition... —Albi due to financial issues, Auch as bottom finisher.

2007-08 Top 14 Table
Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points for	Points against	Bonus points	Points
1	Clermont ASM Clermont Auvergne Association Sportive Montferrandaise Clermont Auvergne are a French rugby union club from Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne that currently competes in Top 14, the top level of the French league system, ASMCA are the were the 2010 France Top 14 Champions. It is the rugby section of the multi-sport club...	26	20	0	6	773	380	16	96
2	Toulouse Stade Toulousain Stade Toulousain, also referred to as Toulouse, is a French rugby union club from Toulouse in Midi-Pyrénées. Toulouse is one of the finest rugby clubs in Europe, having won the Heineken Cup four times – in 1996, 2003, 2005 and 2010. They were also runners-up in 2004 and 2008 against London Wasps...	26	19	0	7	723	394	15	91
3	Stade Français	26	18	0	8	617	417	8	80
4	Perpignan USA Perpignan Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais or Unió eSportiva Arlequins de Perpinyà , generally abbreviated as USAP in both languages, is a French rugby union club that plays in the city of Perpignan in Pyrénées-Orientales. The club currently competes in the Top 14, the top level of the French...	26	17	2	7	531	392	7	79
5	Castres Castres Olympique Castres Olympique is a French rugby union club located in the Midi-Pyrénées city of Castres and currently competing in the top level of the French league system.Founded in 1898, the club took its current name in 1906...	26	15	0	11	564	524	9	69
6	Biarritz Biarritz Olympique Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque is a French professional rugby union team based in the Basque city of Biarritz, Aquitaine which competes in the Top 14 and the Heineken Cup...	26	13	1	12	385	339	12	66
7	Montauban US Montauban US Montauban were a French rugby union club, which competed in the Top 14 competition between 2007 and 2010, after being promoted from Rugby Pro D2 for the 2006-07 season...	26	13	0	13	420	446	11	63
8	Montpellier Montpellier Hérault RC Montpellier Hérault Rugby Club is a professional French rugby union, based in Montpellier the capital of Languedoc-Roussillon. The club competes in the top level of the French league system, in the Top 14. They originally played at Stade Sabathé but moved to the Stade Yves-du-Manoir in 2007...	26	14	0	12	426	490	5	61
9	Bayonne Aviron Bayonnais Aviron Bayonnais is a French rugby union club from Bayonne in Pyrénées-Atlantiques that currently competes in the top level of the French league system, in the Top 14 competition...	26	11	1	14	457	535	8	54
10	Bourgoin CS Bourgoin-Jallieu CS Bourgoin-Jallieu is a French rugby union club currently competing in the second level of the French league system in the Pro D2. The club have been runners-up in the French championship and the Challenge Yves du Manoir competitions, and have won the Challenge Cup.Founded in 1906 as "Club...	26	10	2	14	453	526	8	52
11	Brive CA Brive Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin is a French rugby union team founded in 1910 and based in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the département of Corrèze of the Limousin région . They wear black and white and play in the Stade Amédée-Domenech .- History :The club was created on 15 March 1910 established on...	26	10	0	16	425	514	11	51
12	Albi SC Albi Sporting Club Albigeois is a professional French rugby union club playing the second-level Rugby Pro D2. During the past years it went back and forth between Top 14, the highest level of the French league system and the second-level Rugby Pro D2. Their last time in the Top 14 was for 2009–10 after...	26	9	1	16	415	549	10	48
13	Dax US Dax Union Sportive Dacquoise, also known as US Dax, is a French rugby union club currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the French league system....	26	6	1	19	314	645	8	34
14	Auch FC Auch Gers Football Club Auch Gers is a French rugby union club based in Auch in Midi-Pyrénées currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second tier of the country's professional league system. In recent years, they have bounced between the first-level Top 14 and Pro D2...	26	3	0	23	336	688	7	19

If clubs are level on competition points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

1. Head-to-head competition points earned.
2. Points differential in head-to-head matches.
3. Difference between tries scored and tries conceded in head-to-head matches.
4. Points differential in all matches.
5. Difference between tries scored and tries conceded in all matches.
6. Number of points scored in all matches.
7. Number of tries scored in all matches.

1. Final classification in the last Top 14 regular season.
2. Fewer red cards issued during the season.

Albi's relegation

Due to financial irregularities, SC Albi were relegated to the Pro D2 for 2008-09. This saved Dax from relegation and gave them what had been Albi's place in the Challenge Cup

European Challenge Cup

The European Challenge Cup, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Amlin Challenge Cup, is one of two annual rugby union competitions organised by European Rugby Cup. The cup was known as the Parker Pen Shield from 2001 to 2003 and Parker Pen Challenge Cup from 2003 to 2005. The European...

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Schedule and results

From the official Top 14 site. Within each weekend, matches are listed in the following order:

1. By date.
2. If matches are held on the same day, by kickoff time.
3. Otherwise, in alphabetic order of home club.

All times CET

Central European Time

Central European Time , used in most parts of the European Union, is a standard time that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time . The time offset from UTC can be written as +01:00...

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Rounds 1 to 5

Round 1

• 26 October, 20:30 — Dax (1 BP) 10 - 15 Toulouse
• 27 October, 15:00 — Stade Français 23 - 17 (1 BP) Clermont (at Stade de France)
• 27 October, 17:30 — Biarritz 15 - 15 Bourgoin 10 - 8 (1 BP) Montauban
• 27 October, 17:30 — Brive (1 BP) 21 - 22 Bayonne
• 27 October, 17:30 — Castres 25 - 12 Auch
• 27 October, 20:30 — Montpellier 19 - 12 (1 BP) Perpignan

Round 2

• 2 November, 19:30 — Brive (1 BP) 7 - 12 Biarritz
• 3 November, 15:00 — Toulouse (1 BP) 28 - 9 Stade Français
• 3 November, 17:30 — Albi 21 - 16 (1 BP) Perpignan
• 3 November, 17:30 — Auch (1 BP) 13 - 14 Bourgoin
• 3 November, 17:30 — Clermont 33 - 20 Montpellier
• 3 November, 17:30 — Montauban 15 - 12 (1 BP) Castres
• 3 November, 20:30 — Bayonne (1 BP) 27 - 0 Dax

Round 3

• 23 November, 20:30 — Stade Français (1 BP) 46 - 6 Bayonne
• 24 November, 15:00 — Biarritz 6 - 18 Toulouse
• 24 November, 17:30 — Dax 16 - 6 Auch
• 24 November, 17:30 — Montauban (1 BP) 43 - 14 Brive
• 24 November, 17:30 — Montpellier 25 - 9 Castres
• 24 November, 17:30 — Perpignan 3 - 3 Bourgoin
• 25 November, 20:30 — Albi (1 BP) 6 - 12 Clermont

Round 4

• 30 November, 20:30 — Stade Français 22 - 19 (1 BP) Dax
• 1 December, 15:00 — Bayonne (1 BP) 10 - 14 Biarritz
• 1 December, 17:30 — Auch 19 – 13 (1 BP) Montauban
• 1 December, 17:30 — Brive (1 BP) 6 – 9 Montpellier
• 1 December, 17:30 — Castres 0 – 16 Perpignan
• 1 December, 17:30 — Toulouse (1 BP) 33 – 12 Albi
• 1 December, 20:30 — Bourgoin (1 BP) 14 – 20 Clermont

Round 5

• 21 December, 19:00 — Auch (1 BP) 11–17 Biarritz
• 21 December, 21:00 — Clermont 21–17 (1 BP) Toulouse
• 22 December, 17:30 — Bayonne (1 BP) 35–8 Perpignan
• 22 December, 17:30 — Castres 32–17 Bourgoin
• 22 December, 17:30 — Dax 19–27 Brive
• 22 December, 17:30 — Montpellier 19–14 (1 BP) Albi
• 22 December, 20:30 — Montauban 24 - 16 Stade Français

Rounds 6 to 10

Round 6

• 4 January, 20:30 — Biarritz 10–8 (1 BP) Montauban
• 5 January, 17:30 — Albi 24–17 (1 BP) Dax
• 5 January, 17:30 — Bourgoin 15–10 (1 BP) Bayonne
• 5 January, 17:30 — Clermont (1 BP) 26–6 Auch
• 5 January, 17:30 — Perpignan 23–19 (1 BP) Brive
• 5 January, 20:30 — Stade Français 33–6 Montpellier
• 6 January, 21:00 — Toulouse (1 BP) 44–23 Castres

Round 7

• 25 January, 20:30 — Auch 3–34 (1 BP) Toulouse
• 25 January, 20:30 — Brive (1 BP) 25–6 Albi
• 26 January, 15:05 — Biarritz 21–8 Perpignan
• 26 January, 17:30 — Bourgoin 16–31 Stade Français
• 26 January, 17:30 — Castres 15–14 (1 BP) Clermont
• 26 January, 17:30 — Montauban 12–11 (1 BP) Dax
• 26 January, 17:30 — Montpellier 37–13 Bayonne

Round 8

• 1 February, 20:30 — Perpignan 23–3 Montauban
• 2 February, 17:30 — Bayonne 25–10 Auch
• 2 February, 17:30 — Brive 26–13 Castres
• 2 February, 17:30 — Dax 15–14 (1 BP) Bourgoin
• 2 February, 17:30 — Toulouse (1 BP) 35–13 Montpellier
• 2 February, 20:30 — Albi (1 BP) 18–23 Stade Français
• 3 February, 21:00 — Clermont 12–9 (1 BP) Biarritz

Round 9

• 8 February, 20:30 — Stade Français 36–7 Brive
• 9 February, 15:00 — Auch (1 BP) 14–19 Albi
• 9 February, 15:00 — Biarritz 13–7 (1 BP) Dax
• 9 February, 15:00 — Bourgoin 23–17 (1 BP) Montpellier
• 9 February, 15:00 — Castres (1 BP) 37–17 Bayonne
• 9 February, 15:00 — Perpignan 18–17 (1 BP) Clermont
• 9 February, 20:30 — Montauban (1 BP) 12–16 Toulouse

Round 10

• 15 February, 20:30 — Montpellier (1 BP) 14–18 Biarritz
• 16 February, 15:05 — Toulouse (1 BP) 41–15 Perpignan
• 16 February, 17:30 — Albi 33–8 Bourgoin
• 16 February, 17:30 — Bayonne 25–18 (1 BP) Montauban
• 16 February, 17:30 — Dax 8–17 Castres
• 16 February, 17:30 — Stade Français 15–12 (1 BP) Auch
• 16 February, 20:30 — Brive (1 BP) 9–11 Clermont

Rounds 11 to 15

Round 11

• 22 February, 20:00 — Castres 16–47 (1 BP) Stade Français
• 23 February, 17:30 — Bayonne 31–13 Albi
• 23 February, 17:30 — Clermont (1 BP) 40–13 Montauban
• 23 February, 17:30 — Montpellier 18–13 (1 BP) Dax
• 23 February, 17:30 — Perpignan 28–23 (1 BP) Auch
• 23 February, 17:30 — Toulouse (1 BP) 51–3 Brive
• 24 February, 15:00 — Bourgoin 35–15 Biarritz

Round 12

• 29 February, 20:30 — Montauban 14–6 Montpellier
• 1 March, 15:00 — Biarritz 9–6 (1 BP) Stade Français
• 1 March, 17:30 — Albi 6–33 (1 BP) Castres
• 1 March, 17:30 — Auch 20–30 Brive
• 1 March, 17:30 — Clermont (1 BP) 27–3 Bayonne
• 1 March, 17:30 — Perpignan 10–10 Dax
• 1 March, 20:30 — Bourgoin 30–23 (1 BP) Toulouse

Round 13

• 7 March, 20:30 — Castres 26–19 (1 BP) Biarritz
• 8 March, 17:30 — Albi 15–25 (1 BP) Montauban
• 8 March, 17:30 — Brive 29–13 Bourgoin
• 8 March, 17:30 — Dax 22–40 (1 BP) Clermont
• 8 March, 17:30 — Montpellier 29–24 (1 BP) Auch
• 8 March, 18:30 — Bayonne 10–25 Toulouse
• 8 March, 21:00 — Stade Français 12–23 Perpignan

Round 14

• 14 March, 20:30 — Albi 13–8 (1 BP) Biarritz
• 15 March, 15:00 — Auch 15–36 (1 BP) Castres
• 15 March, 15:00 — Bayonne 20–18 (1 BP) Brive
• 15 March, 15:00 — Montauban 16–11 (1 BP) Bourgoin
• 15 March, 15:00 — Toulouse (1 BP) 58–5 Dax
• 15 March, 20:30 — Perpignan (1 BP) 27–6 Montpellier
• 16 March, 15:00 — Clermont (1 BP) 50–12 Stade Français

Round 15

• 21 March, 20:30 — Biarritz 10–0 Brive
• 22 March, 17:30 — Bourgoin (1 BP) 36–0 Auch
• 22 March, 17:30 — Castres 21–7 Montauban
• 22 March, 17:30 — Dax 11–6 (1 BP) Bayonne
• 22 March, 17:30 — Perpignan (1 BP) 45–7 Albi
• 22 March, 18:30 — Montpellier 17–56 (1 BP) Clermont
• 22 March, 21:00 — Stade Français (1 BP) 29–0 Toulouse (at Stade de France)

Rounds 16 to 20

Round 16

• 28 March, 20:30 — Toulouse 12–6 (1 BP) Biarritz
• 29 March, 15:05 — Bayonne 14–36 (1 BP) Stade Français
• 29 March, 17:30 — Auch 16–10 (1 BP) Dax
• 29 March, 17:30 — Brive 14–7 (1 BP) Montauban
• 29 March, 17:30 — Castres (1 BP) 12–17 Montpellier
• 29 March, 17:30 — Clermont (1 BP) 52–17 Albi
• 29 March, 20:30 — Bourgoin (1 BP) 9–10 Perpignan

Round 17

• 11 April, 20:30 — Dax (1 BP) 9–13 Stade Français
• 12 April, 15:00 — Perpignan 20–18 (1 BP) Castres
• 12 April, 17:30 — Albi (1 BP) 13–20 Toulouse
• 12 April, 17:30 — Biarritz (1 BP) 20–0 Bayonne
• 12 April, 17:30 — Montauban 30–19 Auch
• 12 April, 17:30 — Montpellier 20–14 (1 BP) Brive
• 12 April, 20:30 — Clermont (1 BP) 36–7 Bourgoin

Round 18

• 18 April, 20:30 — Bourgoin (1 BP) 12–14 Castres
• 19 April, 15:00 — Toulouse 11–23 Clermont
• 19 April, 17:30 — Albi (1 BP) 25–12 Montpellier
• 19 April, 17:30 — Biarritz (1 BP) 26–3 Auch
• 19 April, 17:30 — Brive 30–0 Dax
• 19 April, 17:30 — Perpignan (1 BP) 38–13 Bayonne
• 19 April, 20:30 — Stade Français 25–18 (1 BP) Montauban

Round 19

• 25 April, 20:30 — Montpellier (1 BP) 9–12 Stade Français
• 26 April, 17:30 — Auch 15–36 (1 BP) Clermont
• 26 April, 17:30 — Bayonne 19–19 Bourgoin
• 26 April, 17:30 — Dax 12–9 (1 BP) Albi
• 26 April, 18:30 — Montauban 19–13 (1 BP) Biarritz
• 26 April, 20:30 — Brive 7–16 Perpignan
• 7 May, 18:30 — Castres 6–16 Toulouse (rescheduled because of Toulouse's appearance in the Heineken Cup
  2007-08 Heineken Cup
  The 2007–08 Heineken Cup was the 13th edition of the Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby.The start of the tournament was delayed because of the 2007 Rugby World Cup...
  
   semifinals on 26 April)

Round 20

• 2 May, 20:30 — Clermont (1 BP) 28–35 (1 BP) Castres
• 2 May, 20:30 — Toulouse (1 BP) 73–12 Auch
• 3 May, 15:05 — Perpignan 16–3 Biarritz
• 3 May, 17:30 — Albi 21–18 (1 BP) Brive
• 3 May, 17:30 — Bayonne 19–16 (1 BP) Montpellier
• 3 May, 17:30 — Dax 20–16 (1 BP) Montauban
• 3 May, 20:30 — Stade Français 34–20 Bourgoin

Rounds 21 to 26

Round 21

• 9 May, 21:00 — Biarritz (1 BP) 11–16 Clermont
• 10 May, 15:00 — Auch (1 BP) 19–23 Bayonne
• 10 May, 15:00 — Stade Français 43–20 Albi
• 10 May, 17:30 — Bourgoin (1 BP) 50–14 Dax
• 10 May, 18:30 — Montauban 28–22 (1 BP) Perpignan
• 11 May, 17:00 — Castres (1 BP) 41–10 Brive
• 11 May, 19:00 — Montpellier 17–15 (1 BP) Toulouse

Round 22

• 16 May, 20:30 — Brive 11–3 Stade Français
• 17 May, 15:00 — Clermont 29–15 Perpignan
• 17 May, 17:30 — Albi (1 BP) 29–0 Auch
• 17 May, 17:30 — Bayonne 27–16 Castres
• 17 May, 17:30 — Montpellier 12–6 (1 BP) Bourgoin
• 17 May, 17:30 — Toulouse (1 BP) 28–6 Montauban
• 17 May, 18:35 — Dax 17–12 (1 BP) Biarritz

Round 23

• 23 May, 20:30 — Clermont (1 BP) 38–7 Brive
• 24 May, 15:05 — Biarritz 20–0 Montpellier
• 24 May, 20:30 — Auch 9–6 (1 BP) Stade Français
• 24 May, 20:30 — Bourgoin 18–13 (1 BP) Albi
• 24 May, 20:30 — Castres (1 BP) 38–16 Dax
• 24 May, 20:30 — Montauban 15–12 (1 BP) Bayonne
• 3 June, 21:00 — Perpignan (1 BP) 50–6 Toulouse (rescheduled due to Toulouse's appearance in the Heineken Cup final on 24 May)

Round 24

• 30 May, 19:00 — Auch 13–25 Perpignan
• 30 May, 21:00 — Brive 15–12 (1 BP) Toulouse
• 31 May, 15:05 — Stade Français (1 BP) 44–15 Castres
• 31 May, 17:30 — Albi 13–6 (1 BP) Bayonne
• 31 May, 17:30 — Biarritz (1 BP) 30–10 Bourgoin
• 31 May, 17:30 — Dax 16–36 (1 BP) Montpellier
• 31 May, 20:30 — Montauban 18–16 (1 BP) Clermont

Round 25

• 6 June, 20:30 — Montpellier 12–8 (1 BP) Montauban
• 7 June, 15:05 — Stade Français 22–18 Biarritz (1 BP) (at Stade de France)
• 7 June, 17:30 — Bayonne 36–8 Clermont
• 7 June, 17:30 — Brive (1 BP) 40–26 Auch
• 7 June, 17:30 — Castres 20–16 (1 BP) Albi
• 7 June, 17:30 — Toulouse (1 BP) 57–17 Bourgoin
• 7 June, 20:30 — Dax 10–21 Perpignan

Round 26

• 14 June, 15:15 — Auch 12–23 Montpellier
• 14 June, 15:15 — Biarritz (1 BP) 30–34 Castres
• 14 June, 15:15 — Bourgoin 22–19 (1 BP) Brive
• 14 June, 15:15 — Clermont (1 BP) 95–7 Dax
• 14 June, 15:15 — Montauban 24–17 (1 BP) Albi
• 14 June, 15:15 — Perpignan 23–19 (1 BP) Stade Français
• 14 June, 15:15 — Toulouse 35–28 (1 BP) Bayonne

Semi-finals

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Final

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