1997–98 Heineken Cup

Template:Short description Template:Infobox European Cup Rugby season The 1997–98 Heineken Cup was the third edition of the Heineken Cup European rugby union club competition. Competing professional club teams from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales, England and Scotland, were divided into five pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other. The pool winners automatically qualified for the knock-out stages. The five runners-up and the best third placed team entered the play-offs, where they competed for the remaining three quarter final positions.

Teams

Template:Flagicon England	Template:Flagicon Ireland	Template:Flagicon Italy	Template:Flagicon France	Template:Flagicon Scotland	Template:Flagicon Wales
Leicester Tigers London Wasps Bath Harlequins	Leinster Munster Ulster	Treviso Rugby Milano	Toulouse Brive Pau Bourgoin	Glasgow Borders Caledonia	Swansea Pontypridd Llanelli Cardiff

Pool stage

In the pool matches teams received

• 2 points for a win
• 1 points for a draw

Key to colours

	Winner of each pool advances to quarter-final stage
	Advance to quarter-final playoffs

Pool 1

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Toulouse	6	5	0	1	25	12	13	200	121	79	10
Template:Flagicon Leicester	6	4	0	2	16	14	2	163	117	46	8
Template:Flagicon Leinster	6	2	0	4	15	19	−4	137	167	−30	4
Template:Flagicon Milan	6	1	0	5	15	26	−11	111	206	−95	2

Pool 2

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Wasps	6	6	0	0	31	12	19	243	104	139	12
Template:Flagicon Glasgow	6	3	0	3	14	15	−1	132	167	−35	6
Template:Flagicon Swansea	6	2	0	4	15	16	−1	157	161	−4	4
Template:Flagicon Ulster	6	1	0	5	6	23	−17	95	195	−100	2

Pool 3

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Bath	6	5	0	1	12	12	0	141	119	22	10
Template:Flagicon Brive	6	4	1	1	24	13	11	210	146	64	9
Template:Flagicon Pontypridd	6	2	1	3	17	13	4	154	147	7	5
Template:Flagicon Scottish Borders	6	0	0	6	14	29	−15	129	222	−93	0

Pool 4

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Harlequins	6	4	0	2	21	12	9	198	141	57	8
Template:Flagicon Cardiff	6	4	0	2	17	15	2	184	146	38	8
Template:Flagicon Bourgoin	6	2	0	4	14	21	−7	141	180	−39	4
Template:Flagicon Munster	6	2	0	4	7	11	−4	93	149	−56	4

Pool 5

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Pau	6	4	0	2	27	8	19	203	89	114	8
Template:Flagicon Llanelli	6	4	0	2	15	18	−3	144	142	2	8
Template:Flagicon Benetton Treviso	6	2	0	4	18	19	−1	146	162	−16	4
Template:Flagicon Caledonia	6	2	0	4	8	23	−15	89	189	−100	4

Seeding

Seed	Pool Winners	Pts	TF	+/−
1	Template:Flagicon London Wasps	12	31	+139
2	Template:Flagicon Toulouse	10	25	+79
3	Template:Flagicon Bath	10	12	+22
4	Template:Flagicon Pau	8	27	+114
5	Template:Flagicon Harlequins	8	21	+57
Seed	Pool Runners-up (and best third place)	Pts	TF	+/−
6	Template:Flagicon Brive	9	24	+64
7	Template:Flagicon Cardiff	8	17	+38
8	Template:Flagicon Leicester Tigers	8	16	+46
9	Template:Flagicon Llanelli	8	15	+2
10	Template:Flagicon Glasgow	6	14	−35
11	Template:Flagicon Pontypridd	5	17	+7

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Brive advance to final on try count (two tries to one)

Final

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