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 NRL has not yet specified how the following day, the weekend of December 30, will be organized. At the start of 2024, there will be three duplicates during the Six Nations Tournament during France-Ireland (February 3, Matchday 14), France-Italy (February 24, Matchday 16) and Wales-France (9 March, 18th day). To conclude this extended schedule, 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 Stade Vélodrome in Marseille on June 29.
Here is the updated Top 14 ranking for the 2022-2023 season. The ranking is updated at the end of each match:
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:
For all the days of the Top 14, here is the established program:
As the name of the French rugby championship indicates, 14 clubs are in the elite, here is the list of clubs:
