2024–25 Top 14 season

2024–25 Top 14
2024–25 Top 14
Countries	France
Date	7 September 2024 – 28 June 2025
Relegated	Vannes
Matches played	182
Attendance	2,932,750 ; (average 16,114 per match)
Tries scored	1073 ; (average 5.9 per match)
Top point scorer	Joe Simmonds; (255 points)
Top try scorer	Louis Bielle-Biarrey; (13 tries)
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The 2024–25 Top 14 competition is the 126th French domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR).

Format

The top six teams at the end of the regular season (after all the teams played one another twice, once at home, once away) enter a knockout stage to decide the Champions of France. This consists of three rounds: the teams finishing third to sixth in the table play quarter-finals (hosted by the third and fourth placed teams). The winners then face the top two teams in the semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. The LNR uses a slightly different bonus points system from that used in most other rugby competitions. It trialled a new system in 2007–08 explicitly designed to prevent a losing team from earning more than one bonus point in a match,^[1] a system that also made it impossible for either team to earn a bonus point in a drawn match. LNR chose to continue with this system for subsequent seasons.^[2]

France's bonus point system operates as follows:^[2]

4 points for a win.
2 points for a draw.
1 bonus point for winning while scoring at least 3 more tries than the opponent. This replaces the standard bonus point for scoring 4 tries regardless of the match result.
1 bonus point for losing by 5 points (or fewer). The margin had been 7 points until being changed prior to the 2014–15 season.

From the 2017–18 season onwards, only the 14th placed team is automatically relegated to the Pro D2. The 13th placed team play the runner-up of the Pro D2 play-off, with the winner taking up the final place in the Top 14 for the following season.^[3]

Teams

2024–25 Top 14 season (France)

Locations of clubs competing in the 2024–25 Top 14.

Fourteen clubs will compete in the 2024–25 Top 14 season, 13 of them returning. Oyonnax were relegated to Pro D2 after finishing at the bottom of the table the previous season. Vannes is the sole promoted club, finishing second in the Pro D2 the previous season and winning the Pro D2 playoffs. Montpellier, who finished 13th in the previous Top 14 season, defeated Grenoble in the relegation playoffs to retain their place.

2024–25 Top 14 clubs
Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	Prev
Bayonne	Bayonne	Stade Jean Dauger	16,934	12th
Bordeaux Bègles	Bordeaux	Stade Chaban-Delmas^[a]	33,500	3rd
Castres	Castres	Stade Pierre-Fabre	12,500	7th
Clermont	Clermont-Ferrand	Stade Marcel-Michelin	19,022	8th
La Rochelle	La Rochelle	Stade Marcel-Deflandre	16,700	5th
Lyon	Lyon	Matmut Stadium de Gerland	25,000	11th
Montpellier	Montpellier	Altrad Stadium	15,697	13th
Pau	Pau	Stade du Hameau	14,588	9th
Perpignan	Perpignan	Stade Aimé Giral	14,593	10th
Racing	Nanterre	Paris La Défense Arena	30,681	6th
Stade Français	Paris	Stade Jean-Bouin	20,000	2nd
Toulon	Toulon	Stade Mayol^[b]	18,200	4th
Toulouse	Toulouse	Stade Ernest-Wallon^[c]	18,754	1st
Vannes	Vannes	Stade de la Rabine	11,500	2nd (D2)

^ In recent years, Bordeaux Bègles has taken occasional home matches to Matmut Atlantique.
^ In recent years, Toulon has taken occasional home matches to Stade Vélodrome in Marseille and Allianz Riviera in Nice.
^ Toulouse often takes high-demand home matches to the city's largest sporting venue, Stadium de Toulouse.

Table

2024–25 Top 14 Table
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TB	LB	Pts	Qualification
1	Toulouse	26	18	1	7	891	462	+429	118	52	11	5	90	Qualification for playoff semi-finals and European Rugby Champions Cup
2	Bordeaux Bègles	26	17	0	9	762	609	+153	98	72	5	5	78
3	Toulon	26	15	0	11	680	595	+85	79	68	7	5	72	Qualification for playoff semi-final qualifiers and European Rugby Champions Cup
4	Bayonne	26	15	1	10	632	650	−18	72	76	2	4	68
5	Clermont	26	13	0	13	674	627	+47	85	67	6	5	63
6	Castres	26	13	2	11	626	658	−32	69	71	3	4	63
7	La Rochelle	26	13	1	12	617	635	−18	75	65	5	3	62	Qualification for European Rugby Champions Cup
8	Pau	26	13	0	13	682	719	−37	73	92	4	5	61	Qualification for European Rugby Champions Cup
9	Montpellier	26	12	0	14	623	609	+14	66	64	3	5	56	Qualification for European Rugby Challenge Cup
10	Racing 92	26	11	2	13	710	720	−10	81	83	1	7	56
11	Lyon	26	10	2	14	675	722	−47	77	84	2	4	50
12	Stade Français	26	10	0	16	597	755	−158	64	92	2	3	45
13	Perpignan	26	9	2	15	469	647	−178	40	72	2	2	44	Qualification for relegation play-off
14	Vannes (R)	26	7	1	18	661	891	−230	76	115	1	5	36	Relegation to Pro D2

Updated to match(es) played on 9 June 2025. Source: Top 14
(R) Relegated

Relegation play-off

14 June 2025
18:00

Grenoble	v	Perpignan

Stade des Alpes

Playoffs

Bracket

Semi-final Qualifiers		Semi-finals		Final

		1	Toulouse
4	Bayonne
5	Clermont

		2	Bordeaux Bègles
3	Toulon
6	Castres

Semi-final Qualifiers

13 June 2025
21:05

Bayonne (4)	v	(5) Clermont

Stade Jean-Dauger

14 June 2025
21:05

Toulon (3)	v	(6) Castres

Stade Mayol

Semi-finals

20 June 2025
21:05

Toulouse (1)	v

Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu

21 June 2025
21:05

Bordeaux Bègles (2)	v

Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu

Final

28 June 2025
21:05

	v

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Leading scorers

Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.

As of 11 May 2025^[4]

Most points

Rank	Player	Club	Points
1	Maxime Lafage	Vannes	226
2	Joe Simmonds	Pau	219
3	Léo Berdeu	Lyon	192
4	Nolann Le Garrec	Racing 92	191
5	Thomas Ramos	Toulouse	165
6	Joris Segonds	Bayonne	151
7	Louis Carbonel	Stade Français	137
8	Antoine Hastoy	La Rochelle	132
9	Tommaso Allan	Perpignan	128
10	Louis Le Brun	Castres	116

Most tries

Rank	Player	Club	Tries
1	Gaël Drean	Toulon	12
2	Louis Bielle-Biarrey	Bordeaux Bègles	10
	Baptiste Couilloud	Lyon
	Sireli Maqala	Bayonne
5	Ange Capuozzo	Toulouse	9
	Nolann Le Garrec	Racing 92
	Thomas Moukoro	Vannes
8	Sekou Macalou	Stade Français	8
9	Emilien Gailleton	Pau	7
	Feleti Kaitu'u	Racing 92
	Quentin Lespiaucq	La Rochelle
	Damian Penaud	Bordeaux Bègles
	Teddy Thomas	La Rochelle

References

^ "French try out new bonus point system". Planet-rugby.com. 27 June 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Article 330, Section 3.2. Points "terrain"" (PDF). Règlements de la Ligue Nationale de Rugby 2008/2009, Chapitre 2 : Règlement sportif du Championnat de France Professionnel (in French). LNR. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
^ Mortimer, Gavin (18 August 2016). "French rugby enjoys a popularity boom as it looks to the future". Rugby World. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^ "Les joueurs du Top 14". Top 14, Ligue National de Rugby. Retrieved 12 October 2024.

[a-4] In recent years, Bordeaux Bègles has taken occasional home matches to Matmut Atlantique.

[b-5] In recent years, Toulon has taken occasional home matches to Stade Vélodrome in Marseille and Allianz Riviera in Nice.

[c-6] Toulouse often takes high-demand home matches to the city's largest sporting venue, Stadium de Toulouse.

[NewBonus-1] "French try out new bonus point system". Planet-rugby.com. 27 June 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2007.

[LNR_bonus_bylaw-2] "Article 330, Section 3.2. Points "terrain"" (PDF). Règlements de la Ligue Nationale de Rugby 2008/2009, Chapitre 2 : Règlement sportif du Championnat de France Professionnel (in French). LNR. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2008.

[3] Mortimer, Gavin (18 August 2016). "French rugby enjoys a popularity boom as it looks to the future". Rugby World. Retrieved 10 May 2017.

[7] "Les joueurs du Top 14". Top 14, Ligue National de Rugby. Retrieved 12 October 2024.

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