2003-04 Rugby Pro D2 season
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The 2003-04 Rugby Pro D2
Rugby Pro D2
Rugby Pro D2, also known as Pro D2 is the second level of domestic club rugby union in France, below the first division, Top 14. The competition was introduced in 2000. There is relegation and promotion between both the Top 14 and Fédérale 1, the third-level competition...
season was the 2003-04 second division of French club rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
. There is promotion and relegation in Pro Rugby D2, and after the 2003-04 season, Bayonne
Bayonne
Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
and FC Auch
FC Auch Gers
Football Club Auch Gers is a French rugby union club based in Auch in Midi-Pyrénées currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second tier of the country's professional league system. In recent years, they have bounced between the first-level Top 14 and Pro D2...
finished at the top of the table and were promoted to the top level, and Bordeaux-Bègles
CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde
Club Athlétique Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde are a French multisports club, established in 1907, based in Bègles, in the southern suburbs of Bordeaux. Their rugby union section, Union Bordeaux Bègles is their flagship...
and CA Périgueux
CA Périgueux
Club Athlétique Périgueux Dordogne is a French rugby union club that currently competes in the second division of French club rugby, the Pro D2 competition. Périgueux played in the higher divisions in the early 2000s but were relegated from Rugby Pro D2 after the 2004-05 season...
were relegated to third division.
Standings
| Clubs | Points | Games played |
Wins | Draws | Losses | Points for |
Points against |
Diff | |
| 1 | Bayonne Aviron Bayonnais Aviron Bayonnais is a French rugby union club from Bayonne in Pyrénées-Atlantiques that currently competes in the top level of the French league system, in the Top 14 competition... |
74 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 680 | 462 | 218 |
| 2 | Auch FC Auch Gers Football Club Auch Gers is a French rugby union club based in Auch in Midi-Pyrénées currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second tier of the country's professional league system. In recent years, they have bounced between the first-level Top 14 and Pro D2... |
74 | 30 | 22 | 0 | 8 | 667 | 466 | 201 |
| 3 | Lyon Lyon OU Lyon Olympique Universitaire or LOU is a French rugby union team that competes in the Top 14, the first level of the country's professional league system. They earned their spot in the Top 14 by winning the 2010–11 title of the second-tier Pro D2.... |
71 | 30 | 20 | 1 | 9 | 776 | 482 | 294 |
| 4 | US Dax US Dax Union Sportive Dacquoise, also known as US Dax, is a French rugby union club currently playing in Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the French league system.... |
68 | 30 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 741 | 557 | 184 |
| 5 | La Rochelle Atlantique Stade Rochelais Stade Rochelais is a French rugby union club who compete in the Pro D2. They are often known simply as La Rochelle.They were founded in 1898 and play at Stade Marcel-Deflandre . They wear yellow and black... |
62 | 30 | 16 | 0 | 14 | 600 | 601 | |
| 6 | Oyonax Oyonnax Rugby Union sportive Oyonnax Rugby is a French rugby union club from Oyonnax in the Ain département of the région Rhône-Alpes, currently competing in the second level of the French league system . They play at Stade Charles-Mathon... |
61 | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 611 | 644 | |
| 7 | Tyrosse | 60 | 30 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 585 | 685 | |
| 8 | Toulon | 58 | 30 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 655 | 656 | |
| 9 | Tarbes Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby is a French rugby union team that currently takes part in Pro D2, the second level of the country's professional league system.... |
57 | 30 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 624 | 582 | 42 |
| 10 | Aurillac Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne is a French rugby union club, which play in Rugby Pro D2, the second division of French rugby. The club currently play at the Stade Jean Alric, which has a capacity of around 10,000. The club was founded in 1904... |
57 | 30 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 591 | 600 | |
| 11 | Albi SC Albi Sporting Club Albigeois is a professional French rugby union club playing the second-level Rugby Pro D2. During the past years it went back and forth between Top 14, the highest level of the French league system and the second-level Rugby Pro D2. Their last time in the Top 14 was for 2009–10 after... |
57 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 15 | 602 | 617 | |
| 12 | Mont-de-Marsan Stade Montois Stade Montois is a French rugby union team that plays in the 2011–12 season in Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the country's professional league system.They were founded in 1908 and play in yellow and black... |
54 | 30 | 12 | 0 | 18 | 532 | 586 | |
| 13 | Racing Paris Racing Metro 92 Paris Racing Métro 92 is a French rugby union club based in suburban Paris that was formed in 2001 with the collaboration of the Racing Club de France and US Métro. "92" is the number of Hauts-de-Seine, the département of Île-de-France, bordering Paris to the west, where they play, and whose council... |
53 | 30 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 615 | 807 | |
| 14 | Limoges USA Limoges USA Limoges is a French rugby union club currently competing in Fédérale 1, the top level of the French amateur rugby pyramid and one level below the professional leagues. They finished second-from-bottom in the second professional level, Rugby Pro D2, in both 2007 and 2008... |
53 | 30 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 474 | 699 | |
| 15 | Bordeaux-Bègles CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde Club Athlétique Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde are a French multisports club, established in 1907, based in Bègles, in the southern suburbs of Bordeaux. Their rugby union section, Union Bordeaux Bègles is their flagship... |
51 | 30 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 526 | 678 | |
| 16 | Périgueux CA Périgueux Club Athlétique Périgueux Dordogne is a French rugby union club that currently competes in the second division of French club rugby, the Pro D2 competition. Périgueux played in the higher divisions in the early 2000s but were relegated from Rugby Pro D2 after the 2004-05 season... |
50 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 551 | 708 | |