A day just after the World Cup final, a Boxing Day, the details of the new Top 14 calendar.
The National Rugby League has unveiled the calendar for the 2023-2024 season of the French Top 14 championship. Due to the World Cup in France which takes place from September 8 to October 28, the calendar has been adapted and adjusted. The championship will start as planned on August 19 with three days before the opening match of the World Cup between France and New Zealand. During the competition, the championship will obviously be on hiatus, but the Top 14 will resume the day after the World Cup final, on October 29.
The 10th day will be held the weekend of December 23 with a Boxing Day and two meetings which will be held on Friday December 22 (at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.) and the five others on Saturday 23, between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. The LNR has not yet specified how the following day, the weekend of December 30, will be organized. At the beginning of the year 2024, there will be three duplicates during the Six Nations Tournament during France-Ireland (February 3, 14th day), France-Italy (February 24, 16th day) and Wales-France (March 9, 18th day). To conclude this extended calendar, the play-offs will take place on the weekend of June 18, the semi-finals on the weekend of June 22 in Lille, and the final will take place at the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille on June 29.
What is the ranking of the Top 14?
Here is the updated Top 14 ranking for the 2022-2023 season. The ranking is updated at the end of each match:
What is the schedule for the Top 14?
Download the calendar of the Top 14 2022-2023 in PDF
Here is the entire calendar of the French rugby championship and the next final stages. You can zoom in on the images below to see the detail and also download it above:
What is the schedule for the Top 14 days?
For all the days of the Top 14, here is the established program:
- 4 meetings on Saturday at 3 p.m. (in multiplex)
- 1 meeting on Saturday at 5 p.m.
- 1 meeting on Saturday in prime time (9 p.m.), accompanied before and after the match by the Canal Rugby Club.
- 1 meeting on Sunday in prime time (9 p.m.), accompanied before and after the match by the Canal Rugby Club.
Which teams are in the Top 14?
As the name of the French rugby championship indicates, 14 clubs are in the elite, here is the list of clubs:
- Bayonne
- Bordeaux-Bègles
- Brive
- Castres
- Clermont
- La Rochelle
- Lyons
- Montpellier
- Paul
- Perpignan
- Racing 92
- French Stadium
- Toulon
- Toulouse