- Preliminary Phase Pool 1 Pool 2
- Quarters of final
- Semifinali
- Final
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| champions = Stade Français
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| runnersup = Montferrand
| relegated = Montpellier
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| prevseason = 1996–97
| nextseason = 1998–99
}}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. Stade Français won the title beating in the final the Montferrand (that lose for 5th time the final). It was the first victory for Stade Français after 90 years, the last was in 1908. For the first time, the final was played in the new Stade de France Montpellier was relegated in second division. Five team was promoted from the second division in order to increase to 24 the team participating to 1998–99 championship. Preliminary Phase Pool 1 | Pos | Team | Points | | 1 | Stade toulousain | 46 | | 2 | US Colomiers | 43 | | 3 | RC Narbonne | 42 | | 4 | Montferrand | 40 | | 5 | Brive | 37 | | 6 | Biarritz | 36 | | 7 | Dax | 34 | | 8 | Béziers | 32 | | 9 | La Rochelle | 28 | | 10 | Nice | 22 |
| Pool 2 | Pos | Club | Points | | 1 | Stade Français | 43 | | 2 | Perpignan | 43 | | 3 | Bègles-Bordeaux | 43 | | 4 | Castres | 42 | | 5 | Pau | 39 | | 6 | Bourgoin | 37 | | 7 | Agen | 37 | | 8 | Toulon | 35 | | 9 | Grenoble | 23 | | 10 | Montpellier | 18 |
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Quarters of final | may '98 | Bourdeaux-Begles | - | Stade Français | 31–26 | 18–24 | | may '98 | Montferrand | - | Toulouse | 19–10 | 9–22 | | may '98 | Castres | - | Perpignan | 25–19 | 7–42 | | may '98 | Castres | - | Colomiers | 19–19 | 8–8 |
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Semifinali | may '98 | Stade Français | - | Toulouse | 39–3 | | | may '98 | Perpignan | - | Colomiers | 15–12 | |
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Final{{rugbybox
|date = 16 May 1998
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|home = Stade Français
|score = 34 – 7
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|away = Perpignan
|try1 = Simon (18')
Mytton (28')
Bolobolo (41')
Gomes (60')
Dominici (80'+1)
|con1 = Dominguez (3) (18', 28', 80'+1)
|pen1 = Dominguez (80')
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|try2 = Pérarnau (77')
|con2 = Arandiga (77')
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|stadium = Stade de France, Saint-Denis
|attendance =
|referee = Joël Dumé
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| FB | 15 | FRA}} Arthur Gomes | | RW | 14 | FRA}} Christophe Dominici | | OC | 13 | FRA}} Franck Comba | | IC | 12 | NZL}} Cliff Mytton | | LW | 11 | FIJ}} Emori Bolobolo | 64}} | | FH | 10 | ITA}} Diego Dominguez | | SH | 9 | FRA}} Christophe Laussucq | | N8 | 8 | FRA}} Christophe Juillet | | OF | 7 | ENG}} Richard Pool-Jones | 72}} | | BF | 6 | FRA}} Marc Lièvremont | | RL | 5 | FRA}} Hervé Chaffardon | 62}} | | LL | 4 | FRA}} David Auradou | 72}} | | TP | 3 | FRA}} Philippe Gimbert | 62}} | | HK | 2 | FRA}} Vincent Moscato (c) | 78}} | | LP | 1 | FRA}} Serge Simon | | Substitutions: | | HK | 16 | FRA}} Laurent Pedrosa | 78}} | | PR | 17 | FRA}} Sylvain Marconnet | 62}} | | LK | 18 | NZL}} Grant Ross | 62}} | | LK | 19 | FRA}} Olivier Roumat | 72}} | | FL | 20 | FRA}} Christophe Moni | 72}} | | SH | 21 | FRA}} Ludovic Loustau | | WG | 22 | FRA}} Geofrey Abadie | 64}} | | Coach: | | {{flagicon|FRA}} Bernard Laporte |
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| FB | 15 | FRA}} Gérald Bastide | | RW | 14 | RSA}} Alewyn Joubert | | OC | 13 | FRA}} Didier Plana | | IC | 12 | FRA}} Mathieu Barrau | | LW | 11 | FRA}} Grégory Tutard | | FH | 10 | FRA}} Laurent Saliès | 56}} | | SH | 9 | FRA}} Jacques Basset | 65}} | | N8 | 8 | FRA}} Thomas Lièvremont (c) | | OF | 7 | FRA}} Gérard Majoral | | BF | 6 | FRA}} Sylvain Deroeux | 78}} | | RL | 5 | CAN}} Mike James | | LL | 4 | FRA}} Jérôme Pradal | 62}} | | TP | 3 | FRA}} Stéphane de Besombes | | HK | 2 | FRA}} Jacques Lançon | 36}} | 80}} | | LP | 1 | FRA}} Renaud Peillard | 37}} | | Substitutions: | | HK | 16 | FRA}} Michel Konieck | 36}} | 80}} | | PR | 17 | FRA}} Pascal Méya | 37}} | | LK | 18 | FRA}} Alain Fourny | 62}} | | LK | 19 | FRA}} Olivier Olibeau | 78}} | | SH | 20 | FRA}} Christophe Pérarnau | 65}} | | FH | 21 | FRA}} Hervé Laporte | | FB | 22 | FRA}} Gaël Arandiga | 56}} | | Coach: | | {{flagicon|FRA}} Alain Hyardet |
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