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{{Infobox sports league
| title           = Top 14
| current_season  = 2025–26 Top 14 season
| logo            = Logo Top14 2012.png
| logo_size       = 185px
| sport           = Rugby union
| founded         = {{Start date and age|1892}}
| inaugural       = [[1892 French Rugby Union Championship|1892]]
| administrator   = [[National Rugby League (France)|Ligue Nationale de Rugby]] (LNR)
| teams           = 14
| levels          = [[French rugby union system|Level 1]]
| promotion       = 
| relegation      = [[Pro D2]]
| country         = {{FRA}}
| champion        = [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]] (24th title)<br/>([[2024–25 Top 14 season|2024–25]])
| most_champs     = [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]] (24 titles)<ref name=Brennus>{{cite web | url=https://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/palmares-rugby-top-14 | title=Palmarès TOP 14 | language=fr | publisher=[[National Rugby League (France)|LNR]] | access-date=16 September 2022}}</ref>
| confed_cup      = {{nowrap|[[European Rugby Champions Cup]]}}<br>{{nowrap|[[European Rugby Challenge Cup]]}}
| sponsor         = [[Société Générale]]<br>[[:fr:Garantie mutuelle des fonctionnaires|GMF]]<br>[[Intermarché]]<br>[[TotalEnergies]]
| tv              = [[Canal+ (French TV channel)|Canal+]]<br>[[Canal+ Sport (French TV channel)|Canal+ Sport]]<br>[[France 2]] (final only)
| website         = [https://top14.lnr.fr/ Top 14]
}}

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The '''Top 14''' ({{IPA|fr|tɔp katɔʁz}}) is a professional [[rugby union]] club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the [[National Rugby League (France)|France 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 [[Pro D2]]. The fourteen best rugby teams in France participate in the competition, hence the name Top 14. The competition was previously known as the Top 16.

The league is one of the three major professional leagues in Europe (along with the English [[Premiership Rugby|Premiership]] and the [[United Rugby Championship]], which brings together top clubs from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Italy and South Africa), from which the most successful teams go forward to compete in the [[European Rugby Champions Cup]], the championship which replaced the [[Heineken Cup]] after the [[2013–14 Pro12|2013–14 season]].

The first ever final took place in 1892, between two Paris-based sides, [[Stade Français]] and [[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]], which were the only teams playing the competition that year, with the latter becoming the inaugural champions. Since then, the competition has been held on an annual basis, except from 1915 to 1919—because of World War I—and from 1940 to 1942—because of World War II. Each year, the winning team is presented with the [[Bouclier de Brennus]], a famous trophy awarded from 1892. [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]] is the most successful club in the competition with 24 titles.

==History==

=== Early years ===
Football was introduced in France by British traders and workers around the 1870s. The first known club to have practiced a form of football was the [[Havre Athletic Club]] in 1872, playing an hybrid code called the "combination". The first true club to have played rugby union was the English Taylors RFC in 1877, followed by the Paris Football Club in 1878. In the idea to copy the British model of public school, a lot of students' clubs appeared as well to practice athleticism and rugby, like the [[Racing Club de France]] (creation of [[Lycée Condorcet]] students in 1882), the [[Stade Français]] (creation of [[Lycée Saint-Louis]] students in 1883) and the Olympique (creation of [[Lycée Michelet (Vanves)]] students in 1887). At the same time, rugby was also introduced via the port of Bordeaux to south-western France, and quickly merged with popular local traditions of ball games.

Arbitrated by [[Pierre de Coubertin]], the first title of French champion was decided by a single match, between the Racing Club de France and Stade Français, on 20 March 1892. Racing won the match 4–3. This embryonic league was played between only Parisian teams, and no more than six of them, until 1898. Stade Français won five titles, and lost one final to Olympique in this early stage of the league.

The 1898–99 season saw a change in the format of the championship. The champion of Paris now met in a final for the national title the champion of ''la province'' (the rest of France). That changed again in 1904 with the creation of 16 regional leagues, the champions of which were qualified for a round of 16. The championship, now truly on a national scale, saw the emergence of the first true dynasty of French rugby, with the domination of [[Stade Bordelais]], who played 12 of the 13 finals between 1899 and 1911, winning seven of them. The club's reign was stopped by three consecutive eliminations in semi-finals, and other south-western cities' clubs, like Perpignan, Bayonne and Toulouse, took charge of the sport.

=== After the First World War ===

Due to the war, league operations were suspended for a number of years. In its place, a competition known as the [[Coupe de l'Espérance]] was held, which involved mostly young boys who had not been drafted. The competition was held four times, but is not normally considered a full championship. The normal competition returned for the 1920 season, and [[Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby|Stadoceste Tarbais]] became the first post-war champions, defeating the Racing Club de France in the final.<br>
During the 1920s Stade Toulousain initiated its now famous rugby history, winning five Championships during the decade (Stade's first feat took place in 1912 when they were crowned champions without losing a single game throughout the season: the team was nicknamed "la Vierge Rouge"—''the Red Virgin'', a reference to the club shirt color). USA Perpignan also won two championships (their 1925 final victory was actually a second match, as a previous final had ended in a nil-all draw).

The 1930 Championship final, won by [[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|Agen]] over US Quillan, was the first to go into extra time. The 1930s were dominated by the [[Biarritz Olympique]] (four finals and two championship titles) and the [[Lyon OU|Lyon Olympique Université]] (three finals and two titles). However, those dominations were sour, because of extra-sportive turmoil that shook French rugby union in this decade. Brawls on the pitch and in the stands, and disguised professionalism (nicknamed "brown amateurism") had become quite common.

The most stunning example of brown amateurism was the Union Sportive Quillan, a club of a village of 3,000 residents who managed to advance to three finals and win one of them, because Jean Bourrel, the owner of the village hat factory, offered paid positions in his factory to rugby players; he wanted to use the club as an advertisement for his product. On 24 January 1931, 14 rugby union clubs, amongst them seven former French champions, seceded from the [[French Rugby Federation]] to protest against the abuses that had tarnished rugby union's image in the country. Despite a reintegration of those club in 1932, this event had deep consequences.

The four British national teams decided after this incident to ban France from the [[Five Nations Championship|Five Nations]]. Coupled with the effect of the economical crisis, the number of club affiliated to the FFR dropped, from 784 in 1930 to 558 in 1939. This crisis also quick-started [[rugby league]] in France, which went from no club existing in the country in 1934 to 225 in 1939, among them 14 fully professional.

=== During and after the Second World War ===

As during the First World War, the championship was suspended. Rugby union was one of the least affected sports by the German occupation, as it conformed to the amateur vision of sport cultivated by fascist ideology, and its location mainly in the unoccupied south meant that it was far removed from overly severe repression. The [[Vichy France|Vichy regime]] tried to turn rugby union into a kind of national amateur sport for all, by banning all professional sports in 1941, which dealt a terrible blow to association football and rugby league. In 1942, the rugby union league was reinstated, with [[Jean Dauger]]'s Bayonne, [[Puig Aubert|Puig-Aubert]]'s USA Perpignan and Albert Ferrasse and [[Guy Basquet]]'s Agen among the big team.

Rugby union experienced a wave of growth after the war, thanks to the civilian population's desire to forget the horrors of the conflict, France's reintegration into the prestigious Five Nations and the return of clubs that had opted for rugby league before the war to the FFR fold, such as Béziers. The retention of a large number of teams in the championship (between 40 and 80 until 1991) also helped local identification with rugby. The 1940s saw the appearance of the Tarn department on the French rugby map, with double by Castres and a victory by US Carmaux, but above all the emergence of a new dynasty. With a core group of eight international players - Antoine Labazuy, [[Jean Prat|Jean]] and [[Maurice Prat]], Thomas Mantérola, Louis Guinle and [[Roger Martine]] - FC Lourdes contested 10 finals between 1945 and 1960, winning 7 titles. The 60's were highly contested, with 8 different winner, including three SU Agen titles.

Lourdes were also the champions of the 1968 season, but due to the [[May 1968 events in France|May 1968 events]], the final was played three weeks behind the normal schedule. At the end of regulation time the score was tied at 6–6, and then 9–9 after extra time. Lourdes were declared champions because they had scored two [[Try (rugby)|tries]] to Toulon's none and also because there was no time to schedule a third final as the [[France national rugby union team|France national team]] were about to leave on a tour to [[New Zealand]] and [[South Africa]].

Although [[AS Béziers Hérault|Béziers]] won their first championship in the 1961 season, it would be the 1970s which would bring a golden era for the club, under the command of the coach Raoul Barrière, as they would win ten championships between 1971 and 1984, as well as being runners-up in 1976. The club also established a lot of records : a 100–0 win against Montchanin in September 1975, a home undefeated streak lasting 11 years and 9 months, and five entire undefeated seasons (1961, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1978). In the mid-1970s, after being held in Toulouse, Lyon and Bordeaux, the final was fixed on a permanent basis to the newly reconstructed [[Parc des Princes]] in Paris.

A former number eight of the club in the 60's, and a high school and university teacher, Daniel Herrero was named as head coach of RC Toulon in 1983. He transformed the RCT, going unbeaten for seven years at home and appearing in three finals, winning in 1987. The club's main opponent was the resurgent Stade Toulousain, with a generation nicknamed "the gymnastics professor team", because of the job held by eight of them. Toulouse won the title in 1989, the tenth in its history. The first match of the 1990s went into extra time, as the Racing Club de France defeated Agen, winning their first Championship since 1959. [[CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde|Bègles]], Toulon, Castres and Toulouse would win the following finals.

The decade saw the league move increasingly toward professionalism, with a reduction of the number of teams authorized to play in the elite from 40 in 1995 to 16 in 2001.

=== Professional era ===

The 15 first years of the newly professional league were dominated by three teams. Including their 1994 and 1995 victories, Toulouse won four championships in succession, and three others in 1999, 2001 and 2008.<br> Biarritz won in 2002 its first title since 1939, then two others in 2005 and 2006, with a core of players like [[Marc Lièvremont|Marc]] and [[Thomas Lièvremont]], [[Joe Roff]] and [[Dimitri Yachvili]]. But the team who benefited the most from professionalism was Stade Français. After experiencing success at the beginning of the sport, this club had long been stuck in the lower divisions of French rugby. Bought by Max Guazzini, the owner of the successful radio station NRJ, the club came back with a core of young and exciting players coached by [[Bernard Laporte]] to claim five titles between 1998 and 2007.

Encouraged by the Stade Français experience, other wealthy individuals invested in Top 14 : [[Mohed Altrad]] in Montpellier, [[Mourad Boudjellal]] in Toulon, assembled teams of star to compete for the title. Those rich newcomers, however, did not completely topple the traditional teams. Since 2010, Toulouse, driven by its powerful academy, have won five titles, while Clermont and Castres, the two other teams to have never been relegated in the professional era, have each won two.

=== Rising popularity ===

[[File:Top 14 Logo.png|thumb|right|Top 14 logo used through the 2011–12 season]]
The competition saw an enormous rise in popularity in 2005–06, with attendance rising to an average of 9,600, up by 25% from 2004 to 2005, and numerous sellouts. On 15 October 2005, [[Stade Français]] drew a crowd of 79,502 at Stade de France for their home match against [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]]; this broke the previous French attendance record for a regular-season league match in ''any'' sport (including [[association football|football]]) by over 20,000. That record was broken on 4 March 2006, when Stade Français drew 79,604 to a rematch of the 2004–05 final against [[Biarritz Olympique|Biarritz]] at Stade de France. It was broken again on 14 October 2006 with 79,619 as the same two opponents met, and a fourth time on 27 January 2007, with 79,741 for another Stade Français-Toulouse match.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3242,36-860715@51-805390,0.html |title=Le Stade Français sort vainqueur du choc contre Toulouse |language=fr |author=AFP |work=Le Monde |date=28 January 2007 |author-link=Agence France-Presse}}</ref> During the regular season 2010–2011, the average attendance per match reached 14,184.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lnr.fr/statistiques-generales-2010-2011.html |title=Statistiques generales 2010–2011 |language=fr |author=LNR |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531200242/http://www.lnr.fr/statistiques-generales-2010-2011.html |archive-date=31 May 2012}}</ref> In 2011, Canal+ indicated that evening matches were being watched by between 800,000 and 850,000 viewers while afternoon matches were watched by around 700,000 viewers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/economie/droits-tv-comment-canal-a-recadre-le-rugby-francais_255301.html |title=Droits TV: comment Canal+ a recadré le rugby français |language=fr |first=Camille|last=Belsoeur |work=[[L'Expansion]] |date=11 May 2011}}</ref> In recent years, numerous [[List of Top 14 foreign players|foreign players]] have joined Top 14 teams.

=== Changes afoot ===

In August 2016, LNR released a strategic plan outlining its vision for French rugby through the 2023 Rugby World Cup. The plan includes significant changes to the top levels of the league system, although the changes were more dramatic for [[Pro D2]] than for the Top 14. Changes affecting the Top 14 are:<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rugbyworld.com/news/french-rugby-enjoys-a-popularity-boom-68018 |title=French rugby enjoys a popularity boom as it looks to the future |first=Gavin |last=Mortimer |magazine=Rugby World |date=18 August 2016 |access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
* Starting with the 2017–18 season, the only club to be automatically relegated from Top 14 will be the bottom club on the league table. That club will be replaced by the Pro D2 champion.
* From 2017 to 2018, the second-from-bottom team on the Top 14 table will enter a playoff with the Pro D2 runner-up, with the winner taking up the final Top 14 place.

On 13 March 2017, the Top 14 was rocked by the announcement that Racing 92 and Stade Français planned to merge into a single club effective with the 2017–18 season.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_/id/18896501/racing-92-stade-francais-merge-form-paris-super-club |title=Racing 92 and Stade Francais to merge to form Paris super club |publisher=[[BT Sport ESPN|ESPN (UK)]] |date=13 March 2017 |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref> Stade Français players soon voted almost unanimously to go on strike over the proposed merger,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/18907848/stade-francais-players-vote-strike-racing-92-merger-plan |title=Stade Francais players vote to strike over Racing 92 merger plan |publisher=ESPN (UK) |date=14 March 2017 |access-date=17 March 2017}}</ref> and within days LNR held an emergency meeting to discuss the Paris clubs' plans.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_/id/18915455/stade-francais-racing-92-merger-emergency-meeting-called |title=Emergency meeting called over Stade Francais-Racing 92 merger |agency=[[Press Association|PA Sport]] |publisher=ESPN (UK) |date=15 March 2017 |access-date=17 March 2017}}</ref> The clubs announced on 19 March that the planned merger had collapsed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_/id/18949353/racing-92-president-jacky-lorenzetti-confirms-racing-92-stade-francais-merger-collapse-amid-resistance-beautiful-project |title=Racing 92-Stade Francais merger collapses amid resistance |publisher=ESPN (UK) |date=19 March 2017 |access-date=19 March 2017}}</ref>

===Controversy===

The [[1992–93 French Rugby Union Championship|1993]] French Rugby Union Championship was won by [[Castres Olympique|Castres]], who beat [[FC Grenoble|Grenoble]] 14–11 in the final, a match decided by an irregular try.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/gerry-thornley-grenoble-s-jackman-fast-becoming-one-of-top-irish-coaches-1.2606858
|title=Gerry Thornley: Grenoble's Jackman fast becoming one of top Irish coaches

|date=12 April 2016
|publisher=irishtimes
|access-date=25 March 2019}}</ref> A try by Grenoble's [[Olivier Brouzet]] was ruled out<ref>{{Cite web
|url=http://www.rugbyrama.fr/rugby/top-14/2012-2013/combien-de-fois-bayonne-sest-impose-dans-la-capitale_sto3554485/story.shtml
|title=Combien de fois Bayonne s'est imposé dans la capitale ?

|date=3 January 2013
|website=www.rugbyrama.fr
|publisher=Midi olympique
|access-date=21 August 2013
}}</ref> and the decisive try by [[Gary Whetton]] of Castres was awarded by the referee, Daniel Salles, when in fact Grenoble scrum-half Franck Hueber had touched the ball down first in his try zone. This error gave the title to Castres. Salles admitted his mistake 13 years later.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=http://www.sudouest.fr/2013/06/01/je-me-suis-trompe-1071342-773.php
|title=Daniel Salles à propos de Castres-Grenoble en 1993 : " Je me suis trompé "

|date=1 June 2013
|publisher=sudouest
|access-date=24 October 2013}}</ref> [[Jacques Fouroux]], then coach of Grenoble, came into conflict with the French Rugby Federation after claiming the match had been fixed.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/sport/top-14-toulon-castres-souviens-toi-il-y-a-vingt-ans-01-06-2013-1675270_26.php
|title=Top 14: Toulon-Castres, souviens-toi, il y a vingt ans...
|date=1 June 2013
|website=www.lepoint.fr
|access-date=25 March 2019
}}</ref>

==Current clubs==
{{main|2025–26 Top 14 season}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
!Club
!Established
!City (department)
!Stadium
!Capacity
![[2024–25 Top 14 season|Previous season]]
!Seasons in First Division
|-
| [[Aviron Bayonnais|Bayonne]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1904}}
| [[Bayonne]] ([[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]])
| [[Stade Jean-Dauger]]
| align=center | 14,370 
| {{Sort|4|4th}} (Semi-finals)
| align=center | 93
|-
| [[Union Bordeaux Bègles|Bordeaux Bègles]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|2006}}{{efn|Union Bordeaux Bègles was founded as a result of a merger between [[Stade Bordelais]] and [[CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde]] senior teams in {{YEAR|2006}}.}}
| [[Bordeaux]] ([[Gironde]])
| [[Stade Chaban-Delmas]]{{efn|In recent years, Bordeaux Bègles has taken occasional home matches to [[Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux|Matmut Atlantique]].}}
| align=center | 34,462
| {{Sort|2|2nd}} (Runners-up)
| align=center | 14
|-
| [[Castres Olympique|Castres]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1906}}
| [[Castres]] ([[Tarn (department)|Tarn]])
| [[Stade Pierre-Fabre]]
| align=center | 12,300
| {{Sort|6|6th}} (Semi-final Qualifiers)
| align=center | 83
|-
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1911}}
| [[Clermont-Ferrand]] ([[Puy-de-Dôme]])
| [[Stade Marcel-Michelin]]
| align=center | 19,357
| {{Sort|5|5th}} (Semi-final Qualifiers)
| align=center | 96
|-
| [[Stade Rochelais|La Rochelle]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1898}}
| [[La Rochelle]] ([[Charente-Maritime]])
| [[Stade Marcel-Deflandre]]
| align=center | 16,700
| {{Sort|7|7th}}
| align=center | 64
|-
| [[Lyon OU Rugby|Lyon]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1896}}
| [[Lyon]] ([[Lyon Metropolis|Métropole de Lyon]])
| [[Stade de Gerland]]
| align=center | 35,000
| {{Sort|11|11th}}
| align=center | 58
|-
| [[US Montauban|Montauban]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1903}}
| [[Montauban]] ([[Tarn-et-Garonne]])
| [[Stade Sapiac]]
| align=center | 9,210
| {{Sort|14|Promoted from [[2024–25 Rugby Pro D2 season|Pro D2]]}}
| align=center | 8
|-
| [[Montpellier Hérault Rugby|Montpellier]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1986}}
| [[Montpellier]] ([[Hérault]])
| [[GGL Stadium]]
| align=center | 15,697
| {{Sort|9|9th}}
| align=center | 29
|-
| [[Section Paloise|Pau]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1902}}
| [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]] ([[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]])
| [[Stade du Hameau]]
| align=center | 14,588
| {{Sort|8|8th}}
| align=center | 85
|-
| [[USA Perpignan|Perpignan]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1933}}{{efn|Union Sportive Arlequins Perpignanais was founded as a result of a merger between US Perpignan and Arlequins Perpignanais in {{YEAR|1933}}.}}
| [[Perpignan]] ([[Pyrénées-Orientales]])
| [[Stade Aimé-Giral]]
| align=center | 14,593
| {{Sort|13|13th}} (Relegation playoff winners)
| align=center | 84
|-
| [[Racing 92|Racing]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1882}}
| [[Nanterre]] ([[Hauts-de-Seine]])
| [[Paris La Défense Arena]]
| align=center | 30,680
| {{Sort|10|10th}}
| align=center | 105
|-
| [[Stade Français]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1883}}
| [[Paris]]
| [[Stade Jean-Bouin (Paris)|Stade Jean-Bouin]]
| align=center | 20,000
| {{Sort|12|12th}}
| align=center | 73
|-
| [[RC Toulon|Toulon]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1908}}
| [[Toulon]] ([[Var (department)|Var]])
| [[Stade Mayol]]{{efn|In recent years, Toulon has taken occasional home matches to [[Stade Vélodrome]] in [[Marseille]] and [[Allianz Riviera]] in [[Nice]].}}
| align=center | 17,500
| {{Sort|3|3rd}} (Semi-finals)
| align=center | 99
|-
| [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]]
| align=center | {{YEAR|1907}}
| [[Toulouse]] ([[Haute-Garonne]])
| [[Stade Ernest-Wallon]]{{efn|Toulouse often takes high-demand home matches to the city's largest sporting venue, [[Stadium de Toulouse]].}}
| align=center | 19,500
| {{Sort|1|1st}} (Champions)
| align=center | 107
|}
;Notes
{{Reflist|group=lower-alpha}}

==Current venues==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
![[Bordeaux]]
![[Nanterre]]
![[Lyon]]
![[Paris]]
![[Toulouse]]
|-
| [[Stade Chaban-Delmas]]
| [[Paris La Défense Arena]]
| [[Stade de Gerland]]
| [[Stade Jean-Bouin (Paris)|Stade Jean-Bouin]]
| [[Stade Ernest-Wallon]]
|-
| Capacity: '''34,462'''
| Capacity: '''30,680'''
| Capacity: '''25,000'''
| Capacity: '''20,000'''
| Capacity: '''19,500'''
|-
| [[File:Stade Chaban-Delmas Rugby.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:SuperSevens (cropped).jpg|200px]]
| [[File:Matmut stadium de gerland.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:Match Rugby XV Stade Français x Stade Rochelais - Stade Jean Bouin - Paris XVI (FR75) - 2021-12-05 - 15.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:Stade Ernest Wallon.jpg|200px]]
|-
![[Clermont-Ferrand]]
|colspan=3 rowspan=8| {{location map+|France|float=center|width=450|caption=Locations of the [[2025–26 Top 14 season|2025–26 Top 14]] teams |places=
{{location map~ |France |lat=43.485469 |long=-1.479289 |label=<small>[[Aviron Bayonnais|Bayonne]]</small> |position=left }}
{{location map~ |France |lat=44.838611 |long=-0.578333 |label=<small>[[Union Bordeaux Bègles|Bordeaux]]</small> |position=left}}
{{location map~ |France |lat=43.61087  |long= 2.25271  |label=<small>[[Castres Olympique|Castres]]</small> |position=top }}
{{location map~ |France |lat=45.78938  |long=3.10609   |label=<small>[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont-Ferrand]]</small> |position=top }}
{{location map~ |France |lat=46.157805 |long=-1.178467 |label=<small>[[Stade Rochelais|La Rochelle]]</small> }}
{{location map~ |France |lat=45.766944 |long=4.834167  |label=<small>[[Lyon OU Rugby|Lyon]]</small>|position=right}}
{{Location map~ |France |lat=44.010    |long=1.3516    |label=<small>[[US Montauban|Montauban]]</small>|position=top}} 
{{location map~ |France |lat=43.593    |long=3.8496    |label=<small>[[Montpellier Hérault Rugby|Montpellier]]</small> }}
{{Location map~ |France |lat=43.30     |long=-0.37     |label=<small>[[Section Paloise|Pau]]</small> |position=bottom }}
{{Location map~ |France |lat=42.715278 |long=2.891389  |label=<small>[[USA Perpignan|Perpignan]]</small>|position=right }}
{{location map~ |France |lat=48.929444 |long=2.248056  |label=<small>[[Racing 92|Nanterre]]</small>}}
{{location map~ |France |lat=48.843056 |long=2.252778  |label=<small>[[Stade Français|Paris]]</small> |position=left }}
{{location map~ |France |lat=43.118947 |long=5.936531  |label=<small>[[RC Toulon|Toulon]]</small> }}
{{location map~ |France |lat=43.621944 |long=1.415556  |label=<small>[[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]]</small>|position=bottom  }}
}}
![[Toulon]]
|-
| [[Stade Marcel-Michelin]]
| [[Stade Mayol]]
|-
| Capacity: '''19,357'''
| Capacity: '''17,500'''
|-
| [[File:Stade Marcel Michelin.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:RCT-MHR-07112015.jpg|200px]]
|-
![[La Rochelle]]
![[Montpellier]]
|-
| [[Stade Marcel-Deflandre]]
| [[GGL Stadium]]
|-
| Capacity: '''16,700'''
| Capacity: '''15,697'''
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| [[File:Soir de match 2023.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:MHR vs USAP tour d honneur.JPG|200px]]
|-
![[Perpignan]]
![[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]]
![[Bayonne]]
![[Castres]]
![[Montauban]]
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| [[Stade Aimé-Giral]]
| [[Stade du Hameau]]
| [[Stade Jean-Dauger]]
| [[Stade Pierre-Fabre]]
| [[Stade Sapiac]]
|-
| Capacity: '''14,593'''
| Capacity: '''14,588'''
| Capacity: '''14,370'''
| Capacity: '''12,300'''
| Capacity: '''9,210'''
|-
| [[File:Usap aimé giral.JPG|200px]]
| [[File:Stade du Hameau - Vue depuis la tribune Ossau.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:Bayonne-Stade Jean Dauger-AB 23 TFC 11-20131229.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:Stade Pierre Fabre.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:Stade Sapiac - Tribune Présidentielle.jpg|200px]]
|}

== Economic strength of the clubs ==

As of 2024, Top 14 income from TV rights was ahead of European peers.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rugbypass.com/news/top-14-french-rugbys-blockbuster-tv-deal-leaves-rival-leagues-in-the-dust/ | title=French rugby's blockbuster TV deal leaves rival leagues in the dust | date=23 May 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/canal-plus-top-14-pro-d2-rugby-broadcast-rights-2027-2032/ | title=Canal+ agrees record €696.8m extension to show French Top 14 rugby until 2032 | date=23 May 2024 }}</ref>

In the years to 2010 the Top 14 saw the economic strength of its clubs rise significantly. Aided by high attendance, large television rights contracts,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/canal_plus_retains_top_14_with_multi-million_dollar_deal/  |title=Canal Plus retains Top 14 with multi-million dollar deal |first=Chris|last=Raveney|publisher=sportspromedia.com |date=11 May 2011 }}</ref> public subsidies and the rise of the euro exchange rate,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/club/4642902/Top-English-rugby-talent-lured-by-Euro.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/club/4642902/Top-English-rugby-talent-lured-by-Euro.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live  |title=Top English rugby talent lured by Euro |first=Mick|last=Cleary|work=The Daily Telegraph  |date=10 February 2009|access-date=4 November 2011 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Top 14 clubs have seen their overall spending budget increase significantly. In 2011–2012, four clubs had a budget over 20 million euros: Toulouse (33), Clermont (24), Racing Métro [now Racing 92] (22), Stade Francais (21).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rencontresaxv.fr/2011/08/16/toulouse-toujours-le-plus-gros-budget-du-top-14/  |title=Toulouse toujours le plus gros budget du Top 14 |language=fr |author=Renaud|publisher=rencontresaxv.fr |date=16 August 2011 }}</ref>
The average salary of players in the Top 14 was estimated to have risen, in 2010, to $153,700 (compared to $123,000 in the English Premiership).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1989453,00.html   |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520050608/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1989453,00.html   |url-status=dead   |archive-date=20 May 2010 |title=Gloom over French Soccer Contrasts With Rugby's Rise |first= Bruce|last= Crumley|magazine=Time |date=16 May 2010 }}</ref> The wealth of the Top 14 clubs has led them to attract a large number of international players,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://frenchrugbyclub.com/Pro-D2/ProD2-2011/Pro-D2-2010-Dearlove-06-001219.html   |title=Paul Dearlove column: Up to 50 foreign stars could be heading to Top 14 for next season |first= Paul|last= Dearlove|publisher=frenchrugbyclub.com |date=22 November 2010 }}</ref> and to build teams with more strength in depth (in 2011, Top 14 clubs could have as many as 45 players, compared to 33 for [[Leicester Tigers]], 2010 [[Premiership Rugby|Premiership]] winner).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703583404576079963106302524   |title=French Rugby Rules Europe |first= Jonathan|last= Clegg|work=The Wall Street Journal |date=14 January 2011 }}</ref>

Two changes in regulation threatened to limit this economic growth. First, the French government repealed the law known as DIC (''Droit à l'Image Collectif'') on 1 July 2010. This law had allowed all member clubs in French professional sports organisations to treat 30% of each player's salary as image rights. This portion of player salaries was thus exempt from France's high payroll and social insurance taxes.<ref name="France crisis">{{cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/france/rugby/story/105248.html |title=French rugby heading for crisis |first=Ian |last=Moriarty |work=Scrum.com |date=11 November 2009 |access-date=12 November 2009}}</ref>

Second, to control the growth of club spending, the LNR introduced a [[salary cap]] in the Top 14 in the 2010–11 season. Under the provisions of the cap, team payrolls were limited to €8 million.<ref name="Salary cap">{{cite news|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/francetop14/rugby/story/107318.html |title=Top 14 set for salary cap |work=Scrum.com |date=17 December 2009 |access-date=19 December 2009}}</ref> This is in addition to an existing requirement that wage bills be no more than 50% of a team's turnover.<ref name="Sleight of hand">{{cite web|url=http://www.scrum.com/francetop14/rugby/story/107348.html |title=Salary cap just sleight of hand |first=Ian |last=Moriarty |work=Scrum.com |date=18 December 2009 |access-date=19 December 2009}}</ref> However, the €8 million cap was 5% greater than the highest official wage bill in the 2009–10 Top 14, and was well above the English Premiership's then-current £4 million cap. For the 2011–2012 season, the LNR raised the salary cap to €8.7 million.<ref name="Salary cap up to €8.7m">{{cite web|url=http://frenchrugbyclub.com/Top-14/Top-14-2010-11/Top-14-Burgess-001379.html |title=Salary cap up to €8.7m  |publisher=frenchrugbyclub.com |date=22 March 2011 |access-date=4 November 2011}}</ref> Since then, the cap has risen still further, to €10 million starting in 2013–14 and continuing through 2015–16. Additionally, the cap now excludes youth players whose salaries are no more than €50,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/france-top-14-2012-13/rugby/story/180729.html |title=French rugby chiefs agree salary cap rise |work=ESPN Scrum |date=17 April 2013 |access-date=21 August 2013}}</ref>

At the same time as LNR announced the salary cap, it also announced new rules requiring a minimum percentage of French players on club rosters. Players qualifying under these rules, referred to in French as JIFF (''joueurs issus des filières de formation'', loosely translated as "academy-trained players"), must have been registered with the FFR for at least five years before turning 23, or have spent three seasons in an FFR-approved training centre before turning 21.<ref name="Mortimer 2016-04-12">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rugbyworld.com/countries/france-countries/french-rugby-looking-close-foreign-player-loopholes-55584 |title=French rugby looking to close foreign player loopholes |first=Gavin |last=Mortimer |magazine=[[Rugby World]] |date=12 April 2016 |access-date=8 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="Salary cap"/> Original plans were to require 50% JIFFs in 2010–11, but protests from leading clubs led to a reduction to 40% for that season. Initially, the 50% quota was to be met in 2011–12, and 60% in 2012–13, but a compromise with the clubs saw no change to the limit until 2013–14, at which time it increased to 55%. Additionally, effective in 2015–16, LNR was allowed to fine clubs that did not have a minimum of 12 JIFFs in their matchday squads.<ref name="Mortimer 2016-04-12"/> These regulations, however, do not consider eligibility to play for the France national team. For example, although the Armitage brothers ([[Delon Armitage|Delon]], [[Steffon Armitage|Steffon]] and [[Guy Armitage|Guy]]) all represented England internationally, they qualified as JIFF because of their tenure in [[Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing|Nice]]'s youth setup. On the other hand, recent France international [[Jérôme Thion]], despite being a native and lifelong resident of France, did not qualify because he switched from [[basketball]] to rugby too late in his youth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/france/rugby/story/208049.html |title=Rugby's uncordiale entente |first=Paul |last=Eddison |website=ESPN Scrum |date=4 December 2013 |access-date=28 April 2015}}</ref>

While the most visible critics of the change in policy were wealthy club owners such as [[Mourad Boudjellal]] of [[RC Toulonnais|Toulon]] and [[Max Guazzini]] of Stade Français, concern had been growing in French rugby circles that some smaller clubs might fold completely. [[CS Bourgoin-Jallieu|Bourgoin]] only avoided a bankruptcy filing in 2009 by players agreeing to large wage cuts, and [[CA Brive|Brive]], whose 2009–10 wage bill was €7.2 million, announced that they would cut their budget by 40% for the 2010–11 season.<ref name="France crisis"/> Following the 2009–10 season, Bourgoin were denied a professional licence by LNR due to their ongoing financial issues, but the [[French Rugby Federation]] (FFR) reversed this decision on Bourgoin's appeal.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sports.orange.fr/infos/rugby/201027/bourgoin-maintenu-en-top-14_281127.html |title=Bourgoin maintenu en Top 14 |language=fr |date=9 July 2010 |access-date=9 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711080339/http://sports.orange.fr/infos/rugby/201027/bourgoin-maintenu-en-top-14_281127.html |archive-date=11 July 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[US Montauban|Montauban]] were relegated at the end of the same season after filing for bankruptcy.<ref name="Panic button">{{cite news|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/france/rugby/story/118977.html |title=Time to hit the panic button? |first=Ian |last=Moriarty |work=Scrum.com |date=6 July 2010 |access-date=6 July 2010}}</ref>

By the 2012–13 season, the internationalization of the Top 14 had reached such a state that Irish rugby journalist Ian Moriarty, who has had considerable experience covering the French game, asked the rhetorical question, "Has there ever been such a large disconnect between France's club teams and the international side they are supposed to serve?" He cited the following statistics from that season to make his point:<ref name="Multinational">{{cite news|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/france/rugby/story/182773.html |title=The multi-national tricolour |first=Ian |last=Moriarty |work=ESPN Scrum |date=15 May 2013 |access-date=17 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]] and [[RC Toulonnais|Toulon]], who were set to play in the [[2013 Heineken Cup Final|Heineken Cup final]] within days of Moriarty's piece, fielded a total of eight France-qualified starters out of a possible 30 in their Heineken Cup semifinal matches. Of these eight players, only four were regulars in the France national team.
* During the 2012–13 Top 14, none of the top three points scorers were French, and only three of the top 10 try scorers were French.
* Of the players who made the most appearances in their respective positions during that season, only three (out of 15) were French.
* National team coach [[Philippe Saint-André]] suggested that several "foreign" players—meaning players who were born and largely developed outside the country—could make their debuts for France during the team's 2013 summer tour. Moriarty specifically named five such players as potential Test newcomers.

While the JIFF policy worked on one level—the number of foreign players recruited into the Top 14 went from 61 for 2011–12 to 34 for 2014–15—clubs quickly found a way around the rules. Many clubs dispatched scouts to identify top teenage prospects in other countries, and then enrolled them in their academies to start the JIFF qualification process. For example, the 59 players in the 2015–16 Clermont youth squad included 17 from nine countries outside of France.<ref name="Mortimer 2016-04-12"/> A more fundamental problem was identified in 2015 by [[Laurent Labit]], at the time backs coach of the club now known as [[Racing 92]]. In an interview with British rugby journalist Gavin Mortimer, Labit pointed out that France has no organized team sport in its educational system at the primary level—children must join an outside club in order to play sports. Only at age 15 do youths have the opportunity to attend special sporting schools, but places in such institutions are limited. In turn, this means that most young French players are technically well behind their counterparts in many other countries, most notably [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] members and [[Rugby union in Ireland|Ireland]].<ref name="Mortimer 2015-02-17">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rugbyworld.com/countries/france-countries/six-nations-root-frances-problems-43114 |title=Six Nations: The root of France's problems |first=Gavin |last=Mortimer |magazine=[[Rugby World]] |date=17 February 2015 |access-date=8 July 2016}}</ref>

==Format and structure==
[[File:Final top 14 2007-1.jpg|right|thumb|270px|Final ASM vs [[Stade Français]]]]

The Top 14 is contested by fourteen professional rugby union clubs throughout France. The domestic season runs from August through to June. Every club contests 26 games during the regular season – over 26 rounds of competition. For many years, the season was split into two-halves for scheduling purposes, with both halves scheduled in the same order, with the team at home in the first half of the season on the road in the second. However, this strict order has since been abandoned, although the season is still loosely divided into halves. Throughout the August–June competition there are breaks during the season, as there are also European club fixtures (from 2014 to 2015, [[European Rugby Champions Cup|Champions Cup]] and [[European Rugby Challenge Cup|Challenge Cup]]) that are played during the rugby season, as well as the [[Six Nations Championship]], in which many top French players are involved, as well as a few players from the other European powers. The schedule may be adjusted somewhat in [[Rugby World Cup|World Cup]] years; this was especially true in the [[2007–08 Top 14 season|2007–08 season]], which ran up against the [[2007 Rugby World Cup]] in France. That season, the Top 14 played on all of the Six Nations weekends and on some of the Heineken Cup weekends.

The Top 14 is organized by the [[National Rugby League (France)|Ligue Nationale de Rugby]] (LNR), which runs the professional rugby leagues within France (Top 14 and [[Pro D2]]). There is a promotion and relegation system between the Top 14 and Pro D2. Starting with the 2017–18 season, only the lowest-placed club in the table after the regular season is automatically relegated to Pro D2. The playoff champion of Pro D2 is automatically promoted, while the next-to-last Top 14 club and the playoff runner-up of Pro D2 play each other to determine which club will be in Top 14, and which will be in Pro D2 the following season. Starting with the 2009–10 season, the Top 14 knock-out stages consist of three rounds. The teams finishing third through to sixth in the table play quarter-finals, hosted by the No. 3 and No. 4 teams. The winners then face the top two seeds in the semi-finals, whose winners then meet in the final at the [[Stade de France]] (although the 2016 final was instead held at the [[Camp Nou]] in [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]] due to a scheduling conflict with France's hosting of [[UEFA Euro 2016]]). In previous seasons, only the top four teams qualified for semi-finals. Unlike many other major rugby competitions (such as the [[Premiership Rugby|Gallagher Premiership]], [[Mitre 10 Cup]], [[Currie Cup]], and from 2009 to 2010 the [[Pro14|Celtic League/Pro12]]), the Top 14 has traditionally held its semi-finals at neutral sites.

Regardless of the playoff format, the top six teams had qualified for the following season's Heineken Cup in the final years of that competition, and since 2013–14 a minimum of six teams qualify for the European Rugby Champions Cup. Before the 2009–10 season, the seventh-place team also qualified if a French club advanced farther in that season's Heineken Cup than any team from [[English Premiership (rugby union)|England]] or [[Top12|Italy]]. While the European qualification system [[#European competition|was changed for 2009–10]], the normal contingent of six Top 14 teams in the Heineken Cup did not change. The default number of French teams in the Champions Cup has remained at six, but the method for a seventh French team to qualify has changed from performance in the previous European season to a post-season playoff. For the inaugural Champions Cup in 2014–15, this playoff involved the seventh-place teams from both England and the Top 14; in future years, the same two sides will be joined by one Pro12 side.

Previously in the first phase of the then-Top 16, the teams were divided into two pools of eight. This was followed by a second phase, in which the eight highest-ranked teams played for semi-final spots and the bottom eight teams battled against relegation. In 2004–05, the top division consisted of a single pool of 16 teams, with the top four teams advancing to a knockout playoff at the end of the season to determine the champion. From 2005 to 2006 through 2008–09, the top division was run with a single pool of 14 teams, again with a season-ending four-team playoff. The single pool was retained for 2009–10, but the playoffs were expanded to six teams.

The LNR uses a slightly different [[rugby union bonus points system|bonus points system]] from that used in most other major domestic competitions. Instead of a bonus point being awarded for scoring 4&nbsp;tries in a match, regardless of the match result, a bonus point is awarded to a winning team that scores the equivalent of 3&nbsp;tries more than its opponent (15 points). This system makes two scenarios that can be seen in the standard system impossible:
* A losing team earning two bonus points. (The "offensive" bonus point, linked to the number of tries scored, can only be earned by the winning team in France.)
* Either team earning a bonus point in a drawn match. (See above for the "offensive" bonus point. The "defensive" bonus point can only be earned by a losing team.)

For 2014–15, LNR further tweaked its bonus point system. The margin of defeat that allows the losing team to earn a bonus point was reduced from 7&nbsp;points to 5.

==European competition==
The Top 14 serves as the qualification route for French clubs in European club competition. Starting with the 2014–15 season, Top 14 teams compete in the new European club rugby competitions—the [[European Rugby Champions Cup]] and [[European Rugby Challenge Cup]]. The Champions Cup and Challenge Cup replaced the previous European competitions, the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup.<ref name="RFU Champions Cup release">{{cite press release |url=http://www.rfu.com/news/2014/march/news-articles/260314_europe_statement |title=Future of European Rugby resolved |publisher=Rugby Football Union |date=10 April 2014 |access-date=10 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525041159/http://www.rfu.com/news/2014/march/news-articles/260314_europe_statement |archive-date=25 May 2014}}</ref>

Under the new structure, the top six teams on the Top 14 table qualify directly for the following season's Champions Cup. The seventh-placed team advances to a play-off for another Champions Cup place. In 2013–14, the play-off involved said Top 14 club and the seventh-placed club in the [[Premiership Rugby|English Premiership]]. Initially, plans were for the play-off in subsequent years to also include two sides from [[Pro14|Pro12]] in the Celtic nations and Italy.<ref name="RFU Champions Cup release"/> Due to fixture clashes with the Top 14 season, the play-off that followed the 2014–15 season involved only one Pro12 side.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/rugby-union/29353397 |title=Rugby Union: Change to Champions Cup play-offs |first=Chris |last=Jones |work=BBC Radio 5 Live |publisher=BBC Sport |date=24 September 2014 |access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> Because the start of the 2015–16 European season ran up against the [[2015 Rugby World Cup]], the play-off was completely scrapped for that season, with the final Champions Cup place for 2016–17 instead awarded to the winner of the 2016 Challenge Cup.

In the Heineken Cup era, a minimum of six French clubs qualified for the Heineken Cup, with the possibility of a seventh depending on the performance of French clubs in the previous season's Heineken Cup and Challenge Cup.

All Top 14 clubs that do not qualify for the Champions Cup automatically qualify for the Challenge Cup.<ref name="RFU Champions Cup release"/> This means that all Top 14 clubs will participate in European competition during a given season.

The French clubs have had success in the European competitions. The inaugural Heineken Cup, held in the [[1995–96 Heineken Cup|1995–96]] season, was won by Toulouse, which would eventually claim five more championships (2003, 2005, 2010, 2021 and 2024). Brive won the second edition in 1997, then Toulon won three times in a row in 2013, 2014 and 2015. La Rochelle finally won the trophy on two occasions in 2022 and 2023, both finals against Leinster. In addition to the French success in the Heineken Cup and Champions Cup, the clubs in the lower European competitions have achieved similar results. The first four finals of the [[European Challenge Cup]] (1997–2000) were all-French affairs. Since then, six French clubs (Clermont in 2007 and 2019, Biarritz in 2012, [[Montpellier Hérault Rugby|Montpellier]] in 2016 and 2021, Stade Français in 2017, Lyon in 2022, and Toulon in 2023) have won this competition. The now defunct [[European Shield]], a repechage tournament for clubs knocked out in the first round of the Challenge Cup that was played for three seasons in 2003–05, was won by a French team each time.

==Table==
{{#lsth:2025–26 Top 14 season|table}}

==Marketing==
===Broadcasting rights===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Territory
!Rights holder
!Ref.
|-
|rowspan=2|{{flagu|France}}
|[[Groupe Canal+]]
|<ref>{{cite news |language=fr |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Medias/Actualites/Canal-rafle-tout-le-top-14-jusqu-en-2027-pour-un-peu-plus-de-110-m-et-8364-par-saison/1228588 |title=Canal + rafle tout le Top 14 jusqu'en 2027 pour un peu plus de 110 M€ par saison |date=2 March 2021 |newspaper=[[L'Équipe]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|{{No wrap|[[France Télévisions]]}} (final only)
|<ref>{{cite news |language=fr |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Medias/Actualites/La-finale-du-top-14-diffusee-par-france-televisions-jusqu-en-2027/1343079 |title=La finale du Top 14 diffusée par France Télévisions jusqu'en 2027 |date=11 July 2022 |newspaper=[[L'Équipe]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Australia}}
|[[BeIN Sports (Australian TV channel)|BeIN Sports]]
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.beinsports.com/au/tv-listings/news/watch-live-this-week-on-bein-sports-210/2113917 |title=Watch live this week on beIN SPORTS |date=16 June 2023 |website=[[BeIN Sports (Australian TV channel)|BeIN Sports]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Canada}}
|[[FloSports]]
|<ref name="FloS">{{cite news |url=https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/flo-sports-heineken-champions-cup-urc-top-14-rugby-us-streaming-rights |title=FloSports lands US rights to Heineken Champions Cup, URC and Top 14 Rugby |last=Dixon |first=Ed |date=31 August 2022 |website=[[SportsPro]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Caribbean]] 
|[[Canal+ Caraïbes]]
|
|-
|[[Central Asia]]
|[[Setanta Sports Asia|Setanta Sports]]
|<ref name="LNRpress">{{cite news |url=https://www.lnr.fr/sites/default/files/press_release_-_the_final_of_the_french_top_14_rugby_championship_live_on_five_continents.pdf |title=The final of the French Top 14 rugby championship live on five continents |date=25 June 2021 |website=[[National Rugby League (France)|LNR]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Ireland}}
|[[Premier Sports]]
|<ref name="ViaPS">{{cite news |url=https://www.rugbyworld.com/news/british-and-irish-fans-can-now-watch-top-14-125678 |title=British and Irish fans can now watch Top 14 |date=26 May 2021 |website=[[Rugby World]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Japan}}
|[[TV Asahi]] (until 2022)
|<ref>{{cite news |language=fr |url=https://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/actualites-rugby-top-14/tv-asahi-devient-le-diffuseur-officiel-du-top-14-au-japon |title=TV Asahi devient le diffuseur officiel du Top 14 au Japon |date=25 November 2021 |website=[[National Rugby League (France)|LNR]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Latin America]] (except Brazil)
|[[ESPN (Latin America)|ESPN]]
|<ref name="LatAm">{{cite news |language=es |url=https://www.espn.com.ar/rugby/nota/_/id/12201007/top-14-final-toulouse-la-rochelle-formaciones-como-ver-el-partido-mallia-chocobares-sclavi |title=Toulouse vs La Rochelle: formaciones y cómo ver la definición del Top 14 |date=16 June 2023 |website=[[ESPN (Latin America)|ESPN]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Star+]]
|<ref name="LatAm"/>
|-
|{{flagu|New Zealand}}
|[[Sky Sport (New Zealand)|Sky Sport]] via BeIN Sports
|<ref name="LNRpress"/>
|-
|[[Oceania|Pacific Islands]]
|[[Digicel]]
|<ref name="LNRpress"/>
|-
|{{flagu|South Africa}}
|[[SABC]] (final only)
|<ref name="LNRpress"/>
|-
|[[Sub-Saharan Africa]]
|[[Canal+ Afrique]]
|<ref name="LNRpress"/>
|-
|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
|[[Premier Sports]]
|<ref name="ViaPS"/>
|-
|{{flagu|United States}}
|[[FloSports]]
|<ref name="FloS"/>
|-
|Italy
|[[RAI]] and [[Sky Sport (Italy)|Sky Sport Italia]]
|
|}

===Sponsorship===
The following brands and companies sponsored the Top 14 for the [[2022–23 Top 14 season|2022–23 season]]:<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |url=https://www.lnr.fr/ligue-nationale-rugby/partenaires |title=Partenaires |website=[[National Rugby League (France)|LNR]] |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>

{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
* [[:fr:Garantie mutuelle des fonctionnaires|GMF]] – Main sponsor
* [[Société Générale]] – Main sponsor
* [[Intermarché]] – Official sponsor
* [[Groupe Canal+]] – Official broadcaster
* [[:fr:Alain Afflelou (entreprise)|Alain Affelou]] – Official supplier
* [[Andros (company)|Andros]] – Official supplier
* [[Brico Dépôt]] – Official supplier
* [[Land Rover|Defender]] – Official supplier
* [[:fr:IAD (entreprise)|IAD]] – Official supplier
* [[:fr:Synergie (entreprise)|Synergie]] – Official supplier
{{col-2}}
* [[Betclic]] – Betting sponsor
* [[Tissot]] – Timekeeping sponsor
* [[La Poste (France)|La Poste]] – Referees sponsor
* [[:fr:InVivo|Cordier]] – Official brand
* [[:fr:Schneider Consumer Group|Schneider Consumer Group]] – Official brand
* Smart Good Things – Official brand
{{col-end}}

==Total wins==
Below are the list of champions and runners-up :

'''Bold''' indicates clubs playing in [[2025–26 Top 14 season]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! class=unsortable |Club 
! Wins
! Runners-up
! class=unsortable |Winning Seasons
|-
| '''{{nowrap|[[Stade Toulousain]]}}''' || 24 || 7 || [[1911–12 French Rugby Union Championship|1912]], [[1921–22 French Rugby Union Championship|1922]], [[1922–23 French Rugby Union Championship|1923]], [[1923–24 French Rugby Union Championship|1924]], [[1925–26 French Rugby Union Championship|1926]], [[1926–27 French Rugby Union Championship|1927]], [[1946–47 French Rugby Union Championship|1947]], [[1984–85 French Rugby Union Championship|1985]], [[1985–86 French Rugby Union Championship|1986]], [[1988–89 French Rugby Union Championship|1989]], [[1993–94 French Rugby Union Championship|1994]], [[1994–95 French Rugby Union Championship|1995]], [[1995–96 French Rugby Union Championship|1996]], [[1996–97 French Rugby Union Championship|1997]], [[1998–99 French Rugby Union Championship|1999]], [[2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship|2001]], [[2007–08 Top 14 season|2008]], [[2010–11 Top 14 season|2011]], [[2011–12 Top 14 season|2012]], [[2018–19 Top 14 season|2019]], [[2020–21 Top 14 season|2021]], [[2022–23 Top 14 season|2023]], [[2023–24 Top 14 season|2024]], [[2024–25 Top 14 season|2025]]
|-
| '''[[Stade Français Paris|Stade Français]]''' || 14 || 9 || [[1892–93 French Rugby Union Championship|1893]], [[1893–94 French Rugby Union Championship|1894]], [[1894–95 French Rugby Union Championship|1895]], [[1896–97 French Rugby Union Championship|1897]], [[1897–98 French Rugby Union Championship|1898]], [[1900–01 French Rugby Union Championship|1901]], [[1902–03 French Rugby Union Championship|1903]], [[1907–08 French Rugby Union Championship|1908]], [[1997–98 French Rugby Union Championship|1998]], [[1999–2000 French Rugby Union Championship|2000]], [[2002–03 Top 16 season|2003]], [[2003–04 Top 16 season|2004]], [[2006–07 Top 14 season|2007]], [[2014–15 Top 14 season|2015]]
|-
| [[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]] || 11 || 4 || [[1960–61 French Rugby Union Championship|1961]], [[1970–71 French Rugby Union Championship|1971]], [[1971–72 French Rugby Union Championship|1972]], [[1973–74 French Rugby Union Championship|1974]], [[1974–75 French Rugby Union Championship|1975]], [[1976–77 French Rugby Union Championship|1977]], [[1977–78 French Rugby Union Championship|1978]], [[1979–80 French Rugby Union Championship|1980]], [[1980–81 French Rugby Union Championship|1981]], [[1982–83 French Rugby Union Championship|1983]], [[1983–84 French Rugby Union Championship|1984]]
|-
| [[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]] || 8 || 6 || [[1929–30 French Rugby Union Championship|1930]], [[1944–45 French Rugby Union Championship|1945]], [[1961–62 French Rugby Union Championship|1962]], [[1964–65 French Rugby Union Championship|1965]], [[1965–66 French Rugby Union Championship|1966]], [[1975–76 French Rugby Union Championship|1976]], [[1981–82 French Rugby Union Championship|1982]], [[1987–88 French Rugby Union Championship|1988]]
|-
| [[Lourdes Rugby|FC Lourdes]] || 8 || 3 || [[1947–48 French Rugby Union Championship|1948]], [[1951–52 French Rugby Union Championship|1952]], [[1952–53 French Rugby Union Championship|1953]], [[1955–56 French Rugby Union Championship|1956]], [[1956–57 French Rugby Union Championship|1957]], [[1957–58 French Rugby Union Championship|1958]], [[1959–60 French Rugby Union Championship|1960]], [[1967–68 French Rugby Union Championship|1968]]
|-
| [[Stade Bordelais]] || 7 || 5 || [[1898–99 French Rugby Union Championship|1899]], [[1903–04 French Rugby Union Championship|1904]], [[1904–05 French Rugby Union Championship|1905]], [[1905–06 French Rugby Union Championship|1906]], [[1906–07 French Rugby Union Championship|1907]], [[1908–09 French Rugby Union Championship|1909]], [[1910–11 French Rugby Union Championship|1911]] 
|-
| '''[[Racing 92]]''' || 6 || 7 || [[1892 French Rugby Union Championship|1892]], [[1899–1900 French Rugby Union Championship|1900]], [[1901–02 French Rugby Union Championship|1902]], [[1958–59 French Rugby Union Championship|1959]], [[1989–90 French Rugby Union Championship|1990]], [[2015–16 Top 14 season|2016]]
|-
| [[Biarritz Olympique]] || 5 || 3 || [[1934–35 French Rugby Union Championship|1935]], [[1938–39 French Rugby Union Championship|1939]], [[2001–02 Top 16 season|2002]], [[2004–05 Top 16 season|2005]], [[2005–06 Top 14 season|2006]]
|-
| '''[[Castres Olympique]]''' || 5 || 3 || [[1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship|1949]], [[1949–50 French Rugby Union Championship|1950]], [[1992–93 French Rugby Union Championship|1993]], [[2012–13 Top 14 season|2013]], [[2017–18 Top 14 season|2018]]
|-
| '''[[RC Toulon]]nais''' || 4 || 9 || [[1930–31 French Rugby Union Championship|1931]], [[1986–87 French Rugby Union Championship|1987]], [[1991–92 French Rugby Union Championship|1992]], [[2013–14 Top 14 season|2014]]
|-
| '''[[USA Perpignan]]''' || 4 || 7 || [[1937–38 French Rugby Union Championship|1938]], [[1943–44 French Rugby Union Championship|1944]], [[1954–55 French Rugby Union Championship|1955]], [[2008–09 Top 14 season|2009]]
|-
| '''[[Aviron Bayonnais]]''' || 3 || 4 || [[1912–13 French Rugby Union Championship|1913]], [[1933–34 French Rugby Union Championship|1934]], [[1942–43 French Rugby Union Championship|1943]]
|-
| '''[[Section Paloise]]''' || 3 || 0 || [[1927–28 French Rugby Union Championship|1928]], [[1945–46 French Rugby Union Championship|1946]], [[1963–64 French Rugby Union Championship|1964]]
|-
| '''{{nowrap|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]}}''' || 2 || 12 || [[2009–10 Top 14 season|2010]], [[2016–17 Top 14 season|2017]]
|-
| [[Stadoceste Tarbais|Stado Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby]] || 2 || 3 || [[1919–20 French Rugby Union Championship|1920]], [[1972–73 French Rugby Union Championship|1973]]
|-
| [[RC Narbonne]] || 2 || 3 || [[1935–36 French Rugby Union Championship|1936]], [[1978–79 French Rugby Union Championship|1979]]
|-
| [[:fr:Union sportive perpignanaise|US Perpignan]] || 2 || 2 || [[1920–21 French Rugby Union Championship|1921]], [[1924–25 French Rugby Union Championship|1925]]
|-
| '''[[Lyon OU]]''' || 2 || 1 || [[1931–32 French Rugby Union Championship|1932]], [[1932–33 French Rugby Union Championship|1933]]
|-
| [[CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde|CA Bordeaux-Bègles]] || 2 || 1 || [[1968–69 French Rugby Union Championship|1969]], [[1990–91 French Rugby Union Championship|1991]]
|-
| [[Stade Montois]] || 1 || 3 || [[1962–63 French Rugby Union Championship|1963]]
|-
| [[:fr:Olympique (rugby à XV, 1895)|Olympique]] || 1 || 2 || [[1895–96 French Rugby Union Championship|1896]]
|-
| [[US Quillan]] || 1 || 2 || [[1928–29 French Rugby Union Championship|1929]]
|-
| '''[[Montpellier Hérault Rugby]]''' || 1 || 2 || [[2021–22 Top 14 season|2022]]
|-
| [[FC Grenoble]] || 1 || 1 || [[1953–54 French Rugby Union Championship|1954]]
|-
| [[FC Lyon]] || 1 || 0 || [[1909–10 French Rugby Union Championship|1910]]
|-
| [[:fr:AS Perpignan|AS Perpignan]] || 1 || 0 || [[1913–14 French Rugby Union Championship|1914]]
|-
| [[:fr:Club sportif de Vienne rugby|CS Vienne]] || 1 || 0 || [[1936–37 French Rugby Union Championship|1937]]
|-
| [[:fr:Union sportive carmausine|US Carmaux]] || 1 || 0 || [[1950–51 French Rugby Union Championship|1951]]
|-
| '''[[US Montauban]]''' || 1 || 0 || [[1966–67 French Rugby Union Championship|1967]]
|-
| [[ROC La Voulte-Valence]] || 1 || 0 || [[1969–70 French Rugby Union Championship|1970]] (as La Voulte Sportif)
|-
| [[US Dax]] || 0 || 5 || —
|-
| [[CA Brive]] || 0 || 4 || —
|-
| [[:fr:Sporting club universitaire de France rugby|SCUF]] || 0 || 2 || —
|-
| [[Stade Bagnérais]] || 0 || 2 || —
|-
| '''[[Stade Rochelais]]''' || 0 || 2 || —
|-
| '''[[Union Bordeaux Bègles]]''' || 0 || 2 || —
|-
| [[US Carcassonne]] || 0 || 1 || —
|-
| [[Lézignan Sangliers|FC Lézignan]] || 0 || 1 || —
|-
| [[US Cognac]] || 0 || 1 || —
|-
| [[SC Mazamet]] || 0 || 1 || —
|-
| [[Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing|Nice UR]] || 0 || 1 || —
|-
| [[CS Bourgoin-Jallieu]] || 0 || 1 || —
|-
| [[US Colomiers]] || 0 || 1 || —
|}

===Finals 1892–1995===
{|class="wikitable"
|+Key
|-
|style="background:#fbceb1;width:40px;text-align:center"|{{dagger}}
|Match was won during [[Overtime (sports)|extra time]]
|-
|style="background:#ccf7b5;width:40px;text-align:center"|{{double-dagger}}
|Match was won after [[Overtime (sports)|extra time]] and a [[Penalty shootout#Rugby union|place goal-kick shootout]]
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Champion
! Score
! Runner-up
! Place
! Spectators
|-
|align=left|20 March 1892
|'''[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061000/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16354&CSR=16382&Cle=51797 4–3]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|[[Château de Bagatelle|Bagatelle]], Paris<ref>Only 2 clubs took part. [http://www.francerugby.fr/retro/racing_stade.htm Match account in French] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061126230743/http://www.francerugby.fr/retro/racing_stade.htm |date=26 November 2006 }}</ref>
|align=center|2,000   
|- 
|align=left|19 May 1893
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206051936/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16354&CSR=16382&Cle=51808 7–3]
|[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]
|align=left|Bécon-les-Bruyères
|align=center|1,200
|-
|align=left|18 March 1894
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206093200/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=51923 18–0]
|Inter NOS
|align=left|Bécon-les-Bruyères
|align=center|1,500  
|- 
|align=left|17 March 1895
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051015161539/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=51929 16–0]
|[[:fr:Olympique (rugby à XV, 1895)|Olympique]]
|align=left|Stade Vélodrome, [[Courbevoie]]
|align=center|...  
|-
|align=left|5 April 1896
|'''[[:fr:Olympique (rugby à XV, 1895)|Olympique]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206005946/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=51964 12–0]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|Vélodrome, [[Courbevoie]]
|align=center|...   
|- 
|align=left|1897
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|<ref>The title was awarded after a round-robin with 5 clubs. Stade Français won with 10 points, Olympique de Paris was second with 8.</ref>
|[[:fr:Olympique (rugby à XV, 1895)|Olympique]]
|align=center|...
|align=center|...
|-
|align=left|1898
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|<ref>The title was awarded after a round-robin with 6 clubs. Stade Français won with 10 points, Racing was second with 6.</ref>
|[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]
|align=center|...
|align=center|...
|- 
|align=left|30 April 1899
|'''[[Stade Bordelais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052248/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=51948 5–3]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|Route du Médoc, [[Le Bouscat]]<ref>The first time provincial teams were invited.</ref>
|align=center|3,000    
|-
|align=left|22 April 1900
|'''[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206093108/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=51958 37–3]
|[[Stade Bordelais]]
|align=left|[[Levallois-Perret]]
|align=center|1,500  
|- 
|align=left|31 March 1901
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206051709/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52285 0–3]<ref>Stade Bordelais won the final 3–0, but the U.S.F.S.A. which organized the competition declared the final null and void and ordered a replay in Paris as Stade Bordelais had fielded three ineligible players; however, the replay was scratched and Stade Français were awarded the championship after the Bordeaux side refused to participate in the replay.</ref>
|[[Stade Bordelais]]
|align=left|Route du Médoc, [[Le Bouscat]]
|align=center|...  
|-
|align=left|23 March 1902
|'''[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052002/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52291 6–0]
|[[Stade Bordelais]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|1,000 
|- 
|align=left|26 April 1903
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206093604/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52297 16–8]
|[[Stade Toulousain|SOE Toulouse]]
|align=left|Prairie des Filtres, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|5,000 
|-
|align=left|27 March 1904
|'''[[Stade Bordelais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055028/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52303 3–0]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|La Faisanderie, [[Saint-Cloud]]
|align=center|2,000 
|- 
|align=left|16 April 1905
|'''[[Stade Bordelais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071010054605/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52309 12–3]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|Route du Médoc, [[Le Bouscat]]
|align=center|6,000 
|-
|align=left|8 April 1906
|'''[[Stade Bordelais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052946/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52346 9–0]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|4,000 
|- 
|align=left|24 March 1907
|'''[[Stade Bordelais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014092416/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52358 14–3]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|Route du Médoc, [[Le Bouscat]]
|align=center|12,000 
|-
|align=left|5 April 1908
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014092221/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52364 16–3]
|[[Stade Bordelais]]
|align=left|[[Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir|Stade Yves-du-Manoir]], [[Colombes]]
|align=center|10,000
|- 
|align=left|4 April 1909
|'''[[Stade Bordelais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052153/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52370 17–0]
|[[Stade Toulousain]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|15,000
|-
|align=left|17 April 1910
|'''[[FC Lyon]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014092137/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52376 13–8]
|[[Stade Bordelais]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|8,000
|- 
|align=left|8 April 1911
|'''[[Stade Bordelais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206092708/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52414 14–0]
|[[:fr:Sporting club universitaire de France rugby|SCUF]]
|align=left|Route du Médoc, [[Le Bouscat]]
|align=center|12,000
|-
|align=left|31 March 1912
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052106/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52423 8–6]
|[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|15,000
|- 
|align=left|20 April 1913
|'''[[Aviron Bayonnais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206053205/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52429 31–8]
|[[:fr:Sporting club universitaire de France rugby|SCUF]]
|align=left|[[Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir|Stade Yves-du-Manoir]], [[Colombes]]
|align=center|20,000
|-
|align=left|3 May 1914
|'''AS Perpignan'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014091638/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52435 8–7]
|[[Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby|Stadoceste Tarbais]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|15.000
|-  align=center
|align=left|1915–1919
|colspan = 5|Due to the war, the championship was replaced by the [[Coupe de l'Espérance]]
|- 
|align=left|25 April 1920
|'''[[Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby|Stadoceste Tarbais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125062103/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52599 8–3]
|[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]
|align=left|Route du Médoc, [[Le Bouscat]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|17 April 1921
|'''US Perpignan'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052635/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52617 5–0]
|[[Stade Toulousain]]
|align=left|Parc des Sports de Sauclières, [[Béziers]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|23 April 1922
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206093439/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52611 6–0]
|[[Aviron Bayonnais]]
|align=left|Route du Médoc, [[Le Bouscat]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|13 May 1923
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206053623/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52605 3–0]
|[[Aviron Bayonnais]]
|align=left|[[Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir|Stade Yves-du-Manoir]], [[Colombes]]
|align=center|15,000
|- 
|align=left|27 April 1924
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014091324/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52687 3–0]
|US Perpignan
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|3 May 1925
|'''US Perpignan'''
|align=center|[http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52693 5–0]<ref>A first final, played on 26 April 1925 in Toulouse, had ended on a [http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52745 0–0 a.e.t.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052425/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52745 |date=6 December 2008 }}.</ref>
|[[US Carcassonne]]
|align=left|Maraussan, [[Narbonne]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|2 May 1926
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052742/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52699 11–0]
|US Perpignan
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|25,000
|- 
|align=left|29 May 1927
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206092511/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52705 19–9]
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|6 May 1928
|'''[[Section Paloise]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051015161252/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52711 6–4]
|[[US Quillan]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|19 May 1929
|'''[[US Quillan]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206093811/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=52717 11–8]
|[[Lézignan Sangliers|FC Lézignan]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|20,000
|- 
|align=left|18 May 1930
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206051725/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52724 4–0]{{dagger}}
|[[US Quillan]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|28,000
|- 
|align=left|10 May 1931
|'''[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206051648/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52970 6–3]
|[[Lyon OU]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|10,000
|- 
|align=left|5 May 1932
|'''[[Lyon OU]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206093143/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52975 9–3]
|[[RC Narbonne]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|13,000
|- 
|align=left|7 May 1933
|'''[[Lyon OU]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052450/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52981 10–3]
|[[RC Narbonne]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|15,000
|- 
|align=left|13 May 1934
|'''[[Aviron Bayonnais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206053350/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52987 13–8]
|[[Biarritz Olympique]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|18,000
|- 
|align=left|12 May 1935
|'''[[Biarritz Olympique]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206051825/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52993 3–0]
|[[USA Perpignan]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|23,000
|- 
|align=left|10 May 1936
|'''[[RC Narbonne]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052503/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=52999 6–3]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|AS Montferrand]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|25,000
|- 
|align=left|2 May 1937
|'''[[:fr:Club sportif de Vienne rugby|CS Vienne]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052319/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53005 13–7]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|AS Montferrand]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|17,000
|- 
|align=left|8 May 1938
|'''[[USA Perpignan]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052019/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53011 11–6]
|[[Biarritz Olympique]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|24,600
|- 
|align=left|30 April 1939
|'''[[Biarritz Olympique]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014091417/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53017 6–0]{{dagger}}
|[[USA Perpignan]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|23,000
|- align=center
|align=left|1940–1942
|colspan = 5|Due to [[World War II]], no championship was played
|- 
|align=left|21 March 1943
|'''[[Aviron Bayonnais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054503/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53953 3–0]
|[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|28,000
|- 
|align=left|26 March 1944
|'''[[USA Perpignan]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055121/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53960 20–5]
|[[Aviron Bayonnais]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|35,000
|- 
|align=left|7 April 1945
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061816/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53966 7–3]
|[[FC Lourdes]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|30,000
|- 
|align=left|24 March 1946
|'''[[Section Paloise]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206092337/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53973 11–0]
|[[FC Lourdes]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|30,000
|- 
|align=left|13 April 1947
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014092051/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53979 10–3]
|[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|25,000
|- 
|align=left|18 April 1948
|'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052959/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53985 11–3]
|[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|29,753
|- 
|align=left|22 May 1949
|'''[[Castres Olympique]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060026/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53997 14–3]<ref>A first final played on 15 May 1949 at Stade des Ponts Jumeaux in Toulouse had ended on a [http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53991 3–3 draw (a.e.t.)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061537/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=53991 |date=25 November 2006 }}.</ref>
|[[Stade Montois]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|23,000
|- 
|align=left|16 April 1950
|'''[[Castres Olympique]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060344/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=54003 11–8]
|[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]
|align=left|Stade des Ponts Jumeaux, [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|25,000
|- 
|align=left|20 May 1951
|'''[[:fr:Union sportive carmausine|US Carmaux]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206052232/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=54009 14–12]{{dagger}}
|[[Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby|Stadoceste Tarbais]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|39,450
|- 
|align=left|4 May 1952
|'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125062024/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=54015 20–11]
|[[USA Perpignan]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|32,500
|- 
|align=left|17 May 1953
|'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206094203/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=54021 21–16]
|[[Stade Montois]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|32,500
|- 
|align=left|23 May 1954
|'''[[FC Grenoble]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20051014092431/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=57206 5–3]
|[[US Cognac]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|34,230
|- 
|align=left|22 May 1955
|'''[[USA Perpignan]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060523/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=57212 11–6]
|[[FC Lourdes]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|39,764
|- 
|align=left|3 June 1956
|'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055652/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=57218 20–0]
|[[US Dax]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|38,426
|- 
|align=left|26 May 1957
|'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061950/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=57224 16–13]
|[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]
|align=left|[[Stade Gerland]], [[Lyon]]
|align=center|30,000
|- 
|align=left|18 May 1958
|'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055751/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=57230 25–8]
|[[SC Mazamet]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|37,164
|- 
|align=left|24 May 1959
|'''[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061428/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=57236 8–3]
|[[Stade Montois]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|31,098
|- 
|align=left|22 May 1960
 |'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054532/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58657 14–11]
|[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|37,200
|- 
|align=left|28 May 1961
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060224/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58651 6–3]
|[[US Dax]]
|align=left|[[Stade de Gerland]], [[Lyon]]
|align=center|35,000
|- 
|align=left|27 May 1962
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060846/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58663 14–11]
|[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]
|align=left|[[Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|37,705
|- 
|align=left|2 June 1963
|'''[[Stade Montois]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054243/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58669 9–6]
|[[US Dax]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|39,000
|- 
|align=left|24 May 1964
|'''[[Section Paloise]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125062249/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58675 14–0]
|[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]
|align=left|[[Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|27.797
|- 
|align=left|23 May 1965
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060320/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58681 15–8]
|[[CA Brive]]
|align=left|[[Stade Gerland]], [[Lyon]]
|align=center|28,758
|- 
|align=left|22 May 1966
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060256/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58717 9–8]
|[[US Dax]]
|align=left|[[Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|28,803
|- 
|align=left|28 May 1967
|'''[[US Montauban]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055201/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58723 11–3]
|[[CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde|CA Béglais]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|32,115
|- 
|align=left|16 June 1968
|'''[[FC Lourdes]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054841/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58729 9–9]<ref>Because of the [[May 1968 events in France|May 1968 events]], the finale was played three weeks later than scheduled. The score was 6–6 after regulation time expired, and 9–9 after extra-time expired, but it was impossible to schedule a replay due to {{nrut|France}}  leaving to tour to New Zealand and South Africa, so [[FC Lourdes]] were declared champions because they had scored 2 tries to Toulon’s zero in the final.</ref>{{dagger}}
|[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left|[[Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|28,526
|- 
|align=left|18 May 1969
|'''[[CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde|CA Béglais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061629/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58735 11–9]
|[[Stade Toulousain]]
|align=left|[[Stade Gerland]], [[Lyon]]
|align=center|22,191
|- 
|align=left|17 May 1970
|'''[[ROC La Voulte-Valence|La Voulte Sportif]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060708/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=58741 3–0]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|AS Montferrand]]
|align=left|[[Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|35,000
|- 
|align=left|16 May 1971
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060504/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59785 15–9]{{dagger}}
|[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left|[[Stade Chaban-Delmas|Parc Lescure]], [[Bordeaux]]
|align=center|27,737
|- 
|align=left|21 May 1972
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125062203/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59803 9–0]
|[[CA Brive]]
|align=left|[[Stade Gerland]], [[Lyon]]
|align=center|31,161
|- 
|align=left|20 May 1973
|'''[[Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby|Stadoceste Tarbais]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054900/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59797 18–12]
|[[US Dax]]
|align=left|[[Stadium de Toulouse|Stadium Municipal]], [[Toulouse]]
|align=center|26,952
|- 
|align=left|12 May 1974
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054652/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59809 16–14]
|[[RC Narbonne]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|40,609
|- 
|align=left|18 May 1975
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061110/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59791 13–12]
|[[CA Brive]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|39,991
|- 
|align=left|23 May 1976
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055045/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59815 13–10]{{dagger}}
|[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|40,300
|- 
|align=left|29 May 1977
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061337/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59821 12–4]
|[[USA Perpignan]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|41,821
|- 
|align=left|28 May 1978
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060558/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=59827 31–9]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|AS Montferrand]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|42,004
|- 
|align=left|27 May 1979
|'''[[RC Narbonne]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060431/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=59833 10–0]
|[[Stade Bagnérais]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|41,981
|- 
|align=left|25 May 1980
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125062333/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=59839 10–6]
|[[Stade Toulousain]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|43,350
|- 
|align=left|23 May 1981
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054636/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=60694 22–13]
|[[Stade Bagnérais]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|44,106
|- 
|align=left|29 May 1982
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055313/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=60700 18–9]
|[[Aviron Bayonnais]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|41,165
|- 
|align=left|28 May 1983
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061130/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=60706 14–6]
|[[Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing|RRC Nice]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|43,100
|- 
|align=left|26 May 1984
|'''[[AS Béziers Hérault|AS Béziers]]'''
|style="background:#ccf7b5; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054426/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=60712 21–21]<ref>Béziers won 3 goal-kicks to 1.</ref>{{double-dagger}}
|[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|44,076
|- 
|align=left|25 May 1985
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125062140/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&CSSR=16419&Cle=60718 36–22]{{dagger}}
|[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|37,000
|- 
|align=left|24 May 1986
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055736/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=60724 16–6]
|[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|45,145
|- 
|align=left|22 May 1987
|'''[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060815/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=60730 15–12]
|[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,000
|- 
|align=left|28 May 1988
|'''[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054920/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=60736 9–3]
|[[Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby|Stadoceste Tarbais]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,000
|- 
|align=left|27 May 1989
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060122/http://www.lnr.fr/Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=60742 18–12]
|[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,000
|- 
|align=left|26 May 1990
|'''[[Racing 92|Racing Club de France]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061616/http://www.lnr.fr//Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=64882 22–12]{{dagger}}
|[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|45,069
|- 
|align=left|1 June 1991
|'''[[CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060755/http://www.lnr.fr//Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=64887 19–10]
|[[Stade Toulousain]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,000
|- 
|align=left|6 June 1992
|'''[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060540/http://www.lnr.fr//Client/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=64892 19–14]
|[[Biarritz Olympique]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,000
|- 
|align=left|5 June 1993
|'''[[Castres Olympique]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054825/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=64926 14–11]
|[[FC Grenoble]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,000
|- 
|align=left|28 May 1994
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125060402/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=64931 22–16]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|AS Montferrand]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,000
|- 
|align=left|6 May 1995
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054227/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=64955 31–16]
|[[Castres Olympique]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,615
|- 
|}

=== Finals since 1996 (Professionalism) ===
{|class="wikitable"
|+Key
|-
|style="background:#fbceb1;width:40px;text-align:center"|{{dagger}}
|Match was won during [[Overtime (sports)|extra time]]
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Champion
! Score
! Runner-up
! Place
! Spectators

|- 
|align=left|1 June 1996
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055723/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65016 20–13]
|[[CA Brive]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|48,162
|- 
|align=left|31 May 1997
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061210/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65021 12–6]
|[[CS Bourgoin-Jallieu]]
|align=left|[[Parc des Princes]], Paris
|align=center|44,000
|- 
|align=left|16 May 1998
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061356/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65026 34–7]
|[[USA Perpignan]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|78,000
|- 
|align=left|29 May 1999
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061444/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65051 15–11]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|AS Montferrand]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|78,000
|- 
|align=left|15 July 2000
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125054359/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65147 28–23]
|[[US Colomiers]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|45,000
|- 
|align=left|9 June 2001
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055401/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65201 34–22]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne|AS Montferrand]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|78,000
|- 
|align=left|8 June 2002
|'''[[Biarritz Olympique]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061658/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65408 25–22]{{dagger}}
|[[SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne|SU Agen]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|78,457
|- 
|align=left|7 June 2003
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125055239/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=65428 32–18]
|[[Stade Toulousain]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|78,000
|- 
|align=left|26 June 2004
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061322/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=69558 38–20]
|[[USA Perpignan]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,722
|- 
|align=left|11 June 2005
|'''[[Biarritz Olympique]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061125061411/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16358&CSR=16369&Cle=69482 37–34]{{dagger}}
|[[Stade Français]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,475
|- 
|align=left|10 June 2006
|'''[[Biarritz Olympique]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070317233629/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16354&CSR=16382&Cle=81183 40–13]
|[[Stade Toulousain]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,474
|- 
|align=left|9 June 2007
|'''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20030402071834/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16354 23–18]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,654
|- 
|align=left|28 June 2008
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061014120020/http://www.lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16354&CSR=16382 26–20]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,275<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/RugbyFicheMatch7266.html |title=Top 14 Finale : Clermont-Auvergne – Toulouse |language=fr |work=L'Équipe |date=24 June 2008 |access-date=1 April 2009}}</ref>
|- 
|align=left|6 June 2009
|'''[[USA Perpignan]]'''
|align=center|[https://archive.today/20110721010714/http://lnr.fr/Menus.asp?CR=16373&CSR=16373&Cle=112451 22–13]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,205<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/RugbyFicheMatch12537.html |title=Top 14 Finale : Perpignan – Clermont |language=fr |work=L'Équipe |date=6 June 2009 |access-date=6 June 2009}}</ref>
|-
|align=left|29 May 2010
|'''[[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]'''
|align=center|[http://www.lnr.fr/top-14-orange-histoire-stade-de-france-saint-denis-29-mai-2010-03-06-2010-2-20-10341,10341.html 19–6]
|[[USA Perpignan]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,262<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/RugbyFicheMatch14838.html |title=Top 14 Finale : Perpignan – Clermont |language=fr |work=L'Équipe |date=29 May 2010 |access-date=29 May 2010}}</ref>
|- 
|align=left|4 June 2011
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[http://www.lnr.fr/top-14-orange-histoire-stade-de-france-saint-denis-4-juin-2011-08-06-2011-2-20-13026,13026.html 15–10]
|[[Montpellier Hérault Rugby]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|77,000<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/RugbyFicheMatch16342.html |title=Top 14 Finale : Toulouse – Montpellier |language=fr |work='L'Équipe |date=4 June 2011 |access-date=10 June 2011}}</ref>
|- 
|align=left|9 June 2012
|'''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center|[http://www.lnr.fr/top-14-orange-le-point-top-14-orange-finale-une-empreinte-indelebile-09-06-2012-2-17-14786,14786.html 18–12]
|[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|79,612<!--Official LNR match report explicitly states the attendance.-->
|- 
|align=left|1 June 2013
|'''[[Castres Olympique]]'''
|align=center|[http://www.lnr.fr/top-14-le-point-finale-2013-castres-o-limpide-01-06-2013-2-17-16437,16437.html 19–14]
|[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|80,033<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites/Castres-champion-au-forceps/375491 |title=Castres, vingt ans après |language=fr |work='L'Équipe |date=1 June 2013 |access-date=2 June 2013}}</ref>
|- 
|align=left|31 May 2014
|'''[[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]'''
|align=center|[http://www.lnr.fr/top-14-le-point-top-14-finale-le-monument-toulonnais-31-05-2014-2-17-18549,18549.html 18–10]
|[[Castres Olympique]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center|80,174<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match/20902 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531130120/http://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match/20902 | url-status=dead | archive-date=31 May 2014 | title=Toulon 18 – 10 Castres | newspaper=[[L'Équipe]] | date=31 May 2014 | access-date=31 May 2014}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 13 June 2015
| '''[[Stade Français]]'''
|align=center | [http://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/matchs/13-06-15-clermont-paris#fndtn-panel-live-compo-equipe 12–6]
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]
|align=left | [[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 79,000<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match/22382 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609005555/http://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match/22382 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 June 2015 |title=Stade Français - Clermont (12-6) |newspaper=L'Équipe |date=13 June 2015 |access-date=13 June 2015}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 24 June 2016
| '''[[Racing 92]]'''
|align=center | [http://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/matchs/24-06-16-toulon-racing-92 29–21]
| [[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left |[[Camp Nou]], [[Barcelona]]{{efn|The 2016 final was moved to the Camp Nou in Barcelona as the final clashed with [[UEFA Euro 2016]], and therefore no stadium with sufficient capacity was available to host the final in France.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.lnr.fr/top-14-le-point-la-finale-2016-du-top-14-au-camp-nou-a-barcelone-04-11-2014-2-17-19269,19269.html |title=La Finale 2016 du TOP 14 au Camp Nou, à Barcelone ! |publisher=Ligue nationale de rugby |language=fr |date=4 November 2014 |access-date=5 November 2014}}</ref>}}
|align=center | 99,124<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites/En-battant-toulon-le-racing-92-est-sacre-champion-de-france/698977 |title=En battant Toulon, le Racing 92 est sacré champion de France |first=Romain |last=Bergogne |newspaper=[[L'Équipe]] |language=fr |date=24 June 2016 |access-date=25 June 2016}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 4 June 2017
| '''[[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]'''
|align=center | [http://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/matchs/04-06-17-clermont-toulon 22–16]
| [[RC Toulonnais|RC Toulon]]
|align=left | [[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 79,771<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites/Clermont-champion-de-france-apres-sa-victoire-contre-toulon/807597 |title=Clermont champion de France après sa victoire contre Toulon |trans-title=Clermont champion of France after victory against Toulon |first=Richard |last=Escot |newspaper=[[L'Équipe]] |language=fr |date=4 June 2017 |access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
|-
| align=left | 2 June 2018
| '''[[Castres Olympique]]'''
|align=center | [http://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/matchs/02-06-18-montpellier-castres 29–13]
|[[Montpellier Hérault Rugby]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 78,441<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.midilibre.fr/idalgo/sport/rugby/top-14/finale/rencontre/25093/montpellier-castres |title=Montpellier 13 – 29 Castres |newspaper=[[Midi Libre]] |language=fr |date=2 June 2018 |access-date=6 June 2018}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 15 June 2019
| '''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center | [https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match-direct/top-14/2018-2019/toulouse-clermont-live/28995 24–18]
|[[ASM Clermont Auvergne]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 79,786<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match-direct/top-14/2018-2019/toulouse-clermont-live/28995|title=Résultat En direct : Toulouse - Clermont, Top 14 2018-2019, Finale, Samedi 15 Juin 2019|publisher=L'Equipe |date=15 June 2019}}</ref>
|-
|align=left|2020
|colspan = 5|Season cancelled without champion due to [[COVID-19 pandemic in France]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites/Top-14-pro-d2-les-presidents-d-accord-pour-ne-pas-attribuer-de-titre/1132602|title=Top 14 - Pro D2 : les présidents d'accord pour ne pas attribuer de titre|publisher=L'Equipe|date=6 May 2020}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 25 June 2021
| '''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center | [https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match-direct/top-14/2020-2021/toulouse-la-rochelle-live/33515 18–8]
|[[Stade Rochelais]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 14,000{{efn|Reduced attendance due to [[COVID-19 pandemic in France]]}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/match-direct/top-14/2020-2021/toulouse-la-rochelle-live/33515|title=Résultat et résumé : Toulouse - La Rochelle, Vendredi 25 Juin 2021, 20h45, Top 14, Finale|publisher=L'Equipe |date=25 June 2021}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 24 June 2022
| '''[[Montpellier Hérault Rugby]]'''
|align=center | [https://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/matchs/24-06-22-castres-montpellier 29–10]
|[[Castres Olympique]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 80,000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.francebleu.fr/sports/rugby/direct-rugby-suivez-la-finale-du-top-14-entre-castres-et-montpellier-1655902856|title=Finale du Top 14 de rugby : Montpellier remporte son premier bouclier de Brennus en battant Castres 29-10|publisher=France Bleu |date=24 June 2022}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 17 June 2023
| '''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center | [https://www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14/matchs/17-06-23-toulouse-la-rochelle 29–26]
|[[Stade Rochelais]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 79,804<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=Top14Rugby |number=1670175292499931138 |date=17 June 2023 |title=Vous étiez 79.804 ce soir |language=fr |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
|- 
| align=left | 28 June 2024
| '''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|align=center | [https://top14.lnr.fr/feuille-de-match/2023-2024/finale/10782-toulouse-bordeaux-begles 59–3]
|[[Union Bordeaux Bègles]]
|align=left|[[Stade Vélodrome]], [[Marseille]]{{efn|The 2024 final was moved to the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille as the final clashed with the preparations for the [[2024 Summer Olympics]] in Paris.}}
|align=center | 66,760
|- 
| align=left | 28 June 2025
| '''[[Stade Toulousain]]'''
|style="background:#fbceb1; text-align:center"|[https://top14.lnr.fr/feuille-de-match/2024-2025/finale/11056-toulouse-bordeaux-begles 39–33]<ref>The highest scoring final ever.</ref>{{dagger}}
|[[Union Bordeaux Bègles]]
|align=left|[[Stade de France]], [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]
|align=center | 78,534
|}
;Notes
{{Reflist|group=lower-alpha}}

== Player records ==
{{updated|10 June 2025}}

===Appearances===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Rank
! Player
! Club(s)
! Years
! {{tooltip|Apps|Appearances}}
|-
! 1
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Thibaut Privat]]
|  [[RC Nîmes|Nîmes]], [[AS Béziers Hérault|Béziers]], [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]], [[Montpellier Hérault Rugby|Montpellier]], [[Lyon OU|Lyon]]
| 1998–2017
| 387
|-
! 2
| align=left | {{flagicon|URU}} [[Rodrigo Capó Ortega]]
| [[Castres Olympique|Castres]]
| 2002–2020
| 352
|-
! 3
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Henry Chavancy]]
| [[Racing 92]]
| 2009–2025
| 327
|-
! 4
| align=left | {{flagicon|SAM}} [[Joe Tekori]]
| [[Castres Olympique|Castres]], [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]]
| 2007–2022
| 326
|-
! 5
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Florian Fritz]]
| [[CS Bourgoin-Jallieu|Bourgoin-Jallieu]], [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]]
| 2002–2018
| 322
|-
! 6
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Aurélien Rougerie]]
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]]
| 1999–2018
| 321
|-
! 7
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Yannick Nyanga]]
| [[AS Béziers Hérault|Béziers]], [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]], [[Racing 92]]
| 2002–2018
| 315
|-
! 8
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Loïc Jacquet]]
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]], [[Castres Olympique|Castres]]
| 2004–2022
| 314
|-
! 9
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Grégory Lamboley]]
| [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]], [[Stade Rochelais|La Rochelle]]
| 2001–2018
| 309
|-
! 10
| align=left | {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Brock James]]
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]], [[Stade Rochelais|La Rochelle]], [[Union Bordeaux Bègles|Bordeaux Bègles]]
| 2006–2020
| 307
|}

===Points===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Rank
! Player
! Club(s)
! Years
! Points
|-
! 1
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Richard Dourthe]]
| [[US Dax|Dax]], [[Stade Français]], [[AS Béziers Hérault|Béziers]], [[Union Bordeaux Bègles|Bordeaux Bègles]], [[Castres Olympique|Castres]], [[Aviron Bayonnais|Bayonne]]
| 1996–2008
| 3,040
|-
! 2
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Romain Teulet]]
| [[Castres Olympique|Castres]]
| 2001–2014
| 2,612
|-
! 3
| align=left | {{flagicon|ARG}} '''''[[Benjamín Urdapilleta]]'''''
| [[Oyonnax Rugby|Oyonnax]], [[Castres Olympique|Castres]], [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]]
| 2013–
| 2,512
|-
! 4
| align=left | {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Brock James]]
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]], [[Stade Rochelais|La Rochelle]], [[Union Bordeaux Bègles|Bordeaux Bègles]]
| 2004–2020
| 2,494
|-
! 5
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Dimitri Yachvili]]
| [[Biarritz Olympique|Biarritz]]
| 2002–2014
| 2,304
|-
! 6
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Jonathan Wisniewski]]
| [[Castres Olympique|Castres]], [[Racing 92]], [[FC Grenoble|Grenoble]], [[RC Toulonnais|Toulon]], [[Lyon OU|Lyon]]
| 2006–2021
| 2,258
|-
! 7
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} '''''[[Gaëtan Germain]]'''''
| [[CS Bourgoin-Jallieu|Bourgoin-Jallieu]], [[Racing 92]], [[CA Brive|Brive]], [[FC Grenoble|Grenoble]], [[Aviron Bayonnais|Bayonne]]
| 2010–
| 2,164
|-
! 8
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Lionel Beauxis]]
| [[Section Paloise|Pau]], [[Stade Français]], [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]], [[Union Bordeaux Bègles|Bordeaux Bègles]], [[Lyon OU|Lyon]]
| 2003–2019
| 1,931
|-
! 9
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[David Skrela]]
| [[US Colomiers|Colomiers]], [[Stade Français]], [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]], [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]]
| 1997–2013
| 1,967
|-
! 10
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Benjamin Boyet]]
| [[CS Bourgoin-Jallieu|Bourgoin-Jallieu]], [[Aviron Bayonnais|Bayonne]]
| 1997–2013
| 1,789
|}

===Tries===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Rank
! Player
! Club(s)
! Years
! Tries
|-
! 1
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Vincent Clerc]]
| [[FC Grenoble|Grenoble]], [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]], [[RC Toulonnais|Toulon]]
| 2002–2018
| 101
|-
! 2
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[:fr:Laurent Arbo|Laurent Arbo]]
| [[Section Paloise|Pau]], [[Castres Olympique|Castres]], [[Montpellier Hérault Rugby|Montpellier]], [[USA Perpignan|Perpignan]]
| 1991–2007
| 100
|-
! 3
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Aurélien Rougerie]]
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]]
| 1999–2018
| 96
|-
! 4
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Maxime Medard]]
| [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]]
| 2004–2022
| 91
|-
! 5
| align=left | {{flagicon|FIJ}} [[Napolioni Nalaga]]
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]], [[Lyon OU|Lyon]]
| 2006–2017
| 87
|-
! 6
| align=left | {{flagicon|FIJ}} [[Timoci Nagusa]]
| [[Montpellier Hérault Rugby|Montpellier]]
| 2010–2020
| 80
|-
! 7
| align=left | {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Juan Imhoff]]
| [[Racing 92]]
| 2011–
| 79
|-
! 8
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Julien Arias]]
| [[US Colomiers|Colomiers]], [[Stade Français]]
| 2001–2019
| 77
|-
! 9
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} '''''[[Alivereti Raka]]'''''
| [[ASM Clermont Auvergne|Clermont]]
| 2015–
| 74
|-
! 10
| align=left | {{flagicon|FIJ}} '''''[[Waisea Nayacalevu]]'''''
| [[Stade Français]], [[RC Toulon|Toulon]]
| 2013–
| 72
<!--
|-
! 11
| align=left | {{flagicon|FIJ}} '''''[[Josua Tuisova]]'''''
| [[RC Toulon|Toulon]], [[Lyon OU|Lyon]], [[Racing 92]]
| 2013–
| 71
|-
! 12
| align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} '''''[[Baptiste Couilloud]]'''''
| [[Lyon OU|Lyon]]
| 2016–
| 70
-->
|}

==See also==
* [[Bouclier de Brennus]]
* [[European Professional Club Rugby]]
* [[Challenge Yves du Manoir]]
* [[Coupe de France (rugby union)|Coupe de France]]
* [[List of Top 14 foreign players]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://top14.lnr.fr/ Official website] {{in lang|fr}}
* [https://www.top14-rugby.com/ English website]

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