Top 14

The Top 14 is the highest division of the men in the French Rugby Union. It was introduced for the 2001/02 season under the name Top 16 and replaced the previous top French rugby union league. She is a professional league and is organized by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (on behalf of the French Ministry of Sport and the French Rugby Federation Fédération Française de Rugby). Involved are 14 teams before the season 2004/ 05 there were 16 (hence the former name Top 16 ).

Overview

In the top 14 are in the league system, in which each club competes in return games against every other team that played six participants in the play-offs, which also form the six French participants of the highest European Cup Heineken Cup competition. The French rugby champion is determined at the end of normal time through the play-offs. All other eight teams who could not qualify for the Heineken Cup, will automatically take on the second European Cup Amlin Challenge Cup contest called part. The last two teams to rise at the end of the season from the Pro D2, the second- highest division forms since 2000 under the Top 14.

The first French championship was held in 1892; it won the Racing Club de France against Stade Français. Over a century later, these two Paris teams are the only ones from the north of the country, playing in a professional league, Stade Français and Racing Métro 92, the successor Created in 2001 from the merger of the Racing Club. All other come from the south, the south-west outweighs clear.

Traditionally, the former first French league and also the Top 16-2004 on multiple fronts with up to four groups and consisted of several phases. The top 16 teams were divided into two groups of eight teams. It was followed by a second phase in which the four best of each group played for a place in the semi-finals, the four poor binned each group against relegation. In the 2004/05 season the league was single track.

End of the season wearing the six best teams from the feature round for the championship title. This makes the third place after the main round against the fifth-placed and fourth placed against the sixth-placed, the better placed team enjoying home advantage. The first and second place winners will receive a bye. In the semifinals, the first place winner hits a winner of a " quarter-final ", which was placed worse after the main round as the second winner of a " quarter-finals ". This plays against the runner-up. The semi-finals take place on neutral ground. The two winners will contest the final.

The Masters trophy is the Bouclier de Brennus. By 1973, the championship final took place at different locations, then to 1997 at the Parc des Princes in Paris, since at the Stade de France in Saint- Denis. At the end of a season, the two worst teams descend, while the two best in the Rugby Pro D2 ascend.

The record attendance for a game of Top 14 is 79 619, established on 14 October 2006 at the Stade de France in a match between Stade Français and Biarritz Olympique. This is about 20,000 more than in any other championship, including the Ligue 1 in football. Stade Toulousain 's record champions Toulouse with a total of 19 league titles.

Men

The following fourteen teams playing in the 2013/14 season in the Top 14:

End of the season 2012/13 rose to U.S. Oyonnax and CA Brive, while SU Agen and Stade Montois had to dismount.

Seasons

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Master

All finals

Number championship

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