Le Racing won The 1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship [after beating 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
Group A qualification round to 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 Toulon Nîmes RRC Nice Lourdes Hagetmau Cognac Pool 4 Toulouse Narbonne Brive Castres Stadoceste Tyrosse Perpignan FCS Rumilly
"Last 16" In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.
Team 1 Team 2 1st match 2nd match Nîmes Toulouse 6-13 3-33 Béziers Narbonne10-13 12-9 Castres Racing 6-9 6-40 Brive Grenoble 19-12 0-28 US Colomiers Toulon 6-3 12-30 Agen Auch 45-3 28-3 Montferrand Bègles-Bordeaux 31-18 12-21 Biarritz Dax 18-18 12-29
Quarter of finals In bold the clubs qualified for the next round
Team 1 Team 2 Results Toulouse Narbonne 10-9 Racing Grenoble 27-21 Toulon Agen 0-6 Montferrand Dax 34-12
Semifinals Team 1 Team 2 Results Toulose Racing 14-21 Agen Montferrand9-3
Final
FB 15 Jean-Baptiste Lafond RW 14 Philippe GuillardOC 13 Éric Blanc IC 12 Franck MesnelLW 11 Geofrey AbadieFH 10 Didier Pouyau SH 9 Jean-Philippe Saffore N8 8 Christophe Deslandes OF 7 Laurent CabannesBF 6 Xavier Blond RL 5 Patrick Serrière (c)LL 4 Michel Tachdjian TP 3 Philippe Voisin HK 2 Jean-Pierre Genet LP 1 Laurent Bénézech Substitutions:HK 16 Philippe Dubreuille PR 17 Murray Dawson FL 18 Éric Dalle SH 19 Stéphane Jourdan WG 20 Karim Abbou CE 21 Jean-Luc PelaezCoach: Christian Lanta FB 15 Bernard Lacombe RW 14 Olivier CampanOC 13 Philippe Sella IC 12 Patrick Schattel LW 11 Éric GleyzeFH 10 Pierre Montlaur SH 9 Pierre Berbizier (c)N8 8 Dominique Erbani OF 7 Philippe Benetton BF 6 Jacques Gratton RL 5 Bernard Mazzer LL 4 Abdelatif Benazzi TP 3 Laurent Seigne HK 2 Philippe Berbizier LP 1 Jean-Louis Tolot Substitutions:PR 16 Grégoire Lascubé LK 17 Patrick Pujade FL 18 Philippe Berniès FL 19 Frédéric Maffre SH 20 Michel Murat CE 21 Guillaume Bouic Coach: Michel Couturas
External links Compte rendu finale 1990 lnr.fr