French Top 14

The French Top 14 is an annual competition featuring France's leading clubs.

The teams play each other on a home and away basis during the regular season. For the 2009-10 season the play-offs have been expanded to incorporate the top six teams at the end of the regular season.

In the first round of play-offs the top two sides will receive a bye, allowing the remaining four teams to play each other for a place in the semi-finals. Third will play sixth and fourth will play fifth, the winners progressing to face the remaining two sides in the last four. The semi-finals are staged at neutral venues with the final traditionally played at the Stade de France in Paris.

The competition began in 1892 and has evolved into its current format with relegation to and promotion from the second-tier ProD2 division.

•   P W D L Pts
• Castres 22 13 3 6 67
• Perpignan 22 14 0 8 66
• Clermont Auvergne 22 12 3 7 65
• Toulouse 22 13 1 8 65
• Toulon 22 14 1 7 63
• Racing Metro 22 12 1 9 55
• Brive 22 10 2 10 51
• Stade Français 22 8 4 10 49
• Biarritz 22 10 0 12 48
• Bourgoin-Jallieu 22 10 1 11 44
• Bayonne 22 8 0 14 43
• Montpellier 22 10 0 12 42
• Montauban 22 8 2 12 41
• Albi 22 3 0 19 20

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