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2005–06 Top 14 season
Countries	France
Date	25 August 2005 – 10 June 2006
Champions	Biarritz (5th title)
Runners-up	Toulouse
Relegated	Toulon, Pau
Matches played	185
Attendance	1,922,393 (average 10,391 per match)
Highest attendance	79,604 Stade Français v Biarritz 4 March 2006
Lowest attendance	4,163 Agen v Brive 27 August 2005
Top point scorer	Cédric Rosalen (Narbonne) 328 points
Top try scorer	Rupeni Caucaunibuca (Agen) 17 tries
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The 2005–06 Top 14 competition was the 107th French domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) and the 1st using the name Top 14. Previously the league was known as Top 16 but the restructuring of the league at the end of the 2004–05 season meant that it shrank from 16 to 14 clubs. Toulon were the only promoted team having won the 2004–05 Pro D2.

During the season attendance records in the league were broken with 79,502 spectators attending the Round 9 clash between Stade Français and Toulouse at the Stade de France, shattering the attendance record for any regular league season game in France (not just rugby union). However, that record was short-lived when 79,604 spectators attended the Round 17 match between Stade Français and Biarritz Olympique.

The regular season finished in late May 2006, with Biarritz finishing at the top of the ladder. The semi-finals and final were contested in June, with Biarritz defeating Toulouse to claim back-to-back titles, and their fifth overall. Two teams were relegated with newly promoted Toulon, who had easily the poorest record in top 14 with just 3 wins from 26 games, being the first to go down, followed by Pau who were much more competitive but not quite good enough to stay up, finishing 3 points from safety. Both clubs would drop to the 2006–07 Pro D2.

Teams

Club City (department) Stadium Capacity Previous season Agen Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) Stade Armandie 13,000 7th Bayonne Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) Stade Jean Dauger 16,934 12th Biarritz Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) Parc des Sports Aguiléra 15,000 Champions Bourgoin Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère) Stade Pierre Rajon 9,441 Semi-finals (3rd in league) Brive Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze) Stade Amédée-Domenech 15,000 9th Castres Castres (Tarn) Stade Pierre-Fabre 11,500 6th Clermont Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) Stade Marcel-Michelin 16,334 8th Montpellier Montpellier (Hérault) Stade Sabathé 8,000 11th Narbonne Narbonne (Aude) Parc des Sports Et de l'Amitié 12,000 10th Pau Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) Stade du Hameau 14,000 13th Perpignan Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) Stade Aimé Giral 16,593 5th Stade Français Paris, 16th arrondissement Stade Jean-Bouin 12,000 Runners up (2nd in league) Toulon Toulon (Var) Stade Mayol 13,700 Promoted from Pro D2 (champions) Toulouse Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) Stade Ernest-Wallon 19,500 Semi-finals (4th in league)

AgenBayonneBiarritzBourgoinBriveCastresClermontMontpellierNarbonnePauPerpignanStade FrançaisToulonToulouseclass=notpageimage| Locations of the 2005–06 Top 14 teams

Number of teams by regions

Teams	Region or country	Team(s)
5	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Agen, Bayonne, Biarritz, Brive and Pau
	Occitanie	Castres, Montpellier, Narbonne, Perpignan and Toulouse
2	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	Bourgoin and Clermont
1	Île-de-France	Stade Français
	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Toulon

Table

Fixtures & Results

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Round 23

Round 24

Round 25

Round 26

Knock-out stages

Semi-finals

Final

Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 79,474 Referee: Didier Mené

FB 15 Nicolas Brusque  55' RW 14 Jean-Baptiste Gobelet OC 13 Philippe Bidabé IC 12 Damien Traille  75' LW 11 Sireli Bobo FH 10 Julien Peyrelongue SH 9 Dimitri Yachvili  71' N8 8 Imanol Harinordoquy OF 7 Thierry Dusautoir BF 6 Serge Betsen  63' RL 5 Olivier Olibeau  50' LL 4 Jérôme Thion TP 3 Benoît Lecouls  41'  72' HK 2 Benoît August (c)  73' LP 1 Petru Bălan  72' Replacements: HK 16 Benjamin Noirot  73' PR 17 Census Johnston  41' LK 18 David Couzinet  50' N8 19 Thomas Lièvremont  63' SH 20 Julien Dupuy  71' FH 21 Benjamin Dambielle  55' CE 22 Federico Martín Aramburú  75' Coach: Patrice Lagisquet

FB 15 Clément Poitrenaud RW 14 Vincent Clerc  55' OC 13 Yannick Jauzion IC 12 Florian Fritz LW 11 Cédric Heymans FH 10 Frédéric Michalak  58' SH 9 Jean-Baptiste Élissalde N8 8 Finau Maka  69' OF 7 Jean Bouilhou BF 6 Yannick Nyanga  55' RL 5 Trevor Brennan LL 4 Fabien Pelous  47' TP 3 Omar Hasan  61' HK 2 Yannick Bru (c)  61' LP 1 Jean-Baptiste Poux  47'  61' Replacements: HK 16 Virgile Lacombe  61' PR 17 Daan Human  47' LK 18 Romain Millo-Chluski  47' FL 19 Grégory Lamboley  55' N8 20 Isitolo Maka  69' FH 21 Jean-Frédéric Dubois  58' FB 22 Xavier Garbajosa  55' Coach: Guy Novès

Leading scorers

• Note that points scorers includes tries as well as conversions, penalties and drop goals.

Top points scorers Rank Player Club Points 1 Cédric Rosalen Narbonne 328 2 Romain Teulet Castres 300 3 Richard Dourthe Bayonne 295 4 Lionel Beauxis Pau 243 5 Jean-Baptiste Élissalde Toulouse 241 6 Maxime Petitjean Brive 213 7 François Gelez Agen 196 8 Stephen Jones Clermont 193 9 David Aucagne Montpellier 190 10 Dimitri Yachvili Biarritz 192

Top try scorers Rank Player Club Tries 1 Rupeni Caucaunibuca Agen 17 2 Sireli Bobo Biarritz 14 3 Vincent Clerc Toulouse 11 Anthony Forest Bourgoin 11 Cédric Heymans Toulouse 11 4 Laurent Arbo Montpellier 10 5 Philippe Bidabé Biarritz 9 Florian Fritz Toulouse 9 Laloa Milford Castres 9 Julien Saubade Stade Français 9

Attendances

• Attendances do not include the semi-finals or final as these are at neutral venues.

See also

• 2005–06 Heineken Cup
• 2005–06 Rugby Pro D2 season

Notes

1. Bourgoin would also play two games at the 35,616 capacity Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Étienne.
2. Stade Français would also play two games at the 81,338 capacity Stade de France.
3. Toulouse would also play one game at the 35,575 capacity Stadium Municipal.

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External links

• (in French) Ligue Nationale de Rugby – Official website
• Top 14 on Planetrugby.com

• Top 14 seasons
• 2005–06 in French rugby union leagues
• 2005–06 in European rugby union leagues