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The Top 14 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 French 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 Rugby 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.
Stade Français Paris is a French professional rugby union club based in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The club plays in the Top 14 domestic league in France and is one of the most successful French clubs of the modern era.
Christophe Dominici is a former French rugby union footballer of Italian origin. He played wing for Stade Français and France. He has been a coach with Stade Français since the start of the 2008/9 season and a board member since 2009/10 season.
Fabien Galthié is a French rugby union coach and former player, currently head coach of Toulon. His usual position was at scrum-half. He played much of his club rugby for Colomiers, and later on in his career, Stade Français. Galthié won 64 caps for France, including four Rugby World Cup appearances, as well as captaining the side at the 2003 World Cup. Former France national coach Bernard Laporte has described him as the greatest scrum-half in French history. He was the IRB International Player of the Year in 2002.
Shaun Sowerby is a South African rugby union footballer. He plays for FC Grenoble in the top French rugby competition, the Top 14. Prior to playing at the Stade Ernest-Wallon he turned out for Stade Français Paris, who he moved to from the Sharks in South Africa. In the summer of 2007, he transferred to Stade Francais' rivals Stade Toulousain, where he greatly impressed.
AS Monaco won Division 1 season 1962/1963 of the French Association Football League with 50 points.
Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1961/1962 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.
AS Monaco won Division 1 season 1960/1961 of the French Association Football League with 57 points.
Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1952/1953 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.
OGC Nice won Division 1 season 1951/1952 of the French Association Football League with 46 points.
FC Girondins de Bordeaux won Division 1 season 1949/1950 of the French Association Football League with 51 points.
Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1948/1949 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.
Olympique de Marseille won Division 1 season 1947/1948 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.
CO Roubaix-Tourcoing won Division 1 season 1946/1947 of the French Association Football League with 53 points.
Lille OSC won Division 1 season 1945/1946, the first professional football season since the end of World War II, of the French Association Football League with 45 points.
Olympique Lillois won Division 1 season 1932/1933 of the French Association Football League, the first professional football season in France, defeating AS Cannes in the final.
Montpellier XIII Red Devils are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Montpellier, in the region of Herault, France. They currently play in the National Division 2. Their home ground is the Stade Sabathé.
Pierre Mosca is an Italian born French former footballer and coach.
The 1997–1998 French Rugby Union Championship was played by 20 teams divided in the preliminary phase in two pools of 12. The first four team of each pool were admitted to quarters of final.
The 1902–03 French Rugby Union Championship of first division was won by Stade Français that beat Stade olympiens des étudians toulousains (SOET) in the final.