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Standings/Countries/France
Structure guideSources checked Aug 17, 2026

How rugby is organised in France

French rugby has separate LNR professional men's, FFR federal and national women's, and organizer-specific territorial and overseas competition branches. Published family and group denominators do not establish a reusable all-club census or a single rights scope.

Governing authorityLigue Nationale de RugbyGoverning authorityFédération Française de RugbyGoverning authorityFFR territorial leagues

Hierarchy

The country structure

Permanent leagues, seasonal phases and parallel competitions stay separate so a cup or playoff is not mistaken for a league tier.

Senior men

Top 14 and Pro D2 are LNR professional families. Nationale, Nationale 2 and Fédérale 1–3 are FFR federal families; their season-specific movement rules are not republished here.

  • LNR professional families

    Top 14 is above Pro D2. The checked Pro D2 surface identifies an access match with the Nationale finalist and direct relegation to Nationale, without turning phases or outcomes into a Frostlete table rule.

  • FFR federal families

    The 2026/27 FFR release names Nationale, Nationale 2 and Fédérale 1, 2 and 3 as federal senior men's families.

Senior women

The national women's XV families named by the FFR are AXA Élite 1 Féminine, Élite 2 Féminine, Fédérale 1 Féminine and Fédérale 2 Féminine.

  • National women's XV families

    These are kept separate from men's federal and territorial labels; this projection does not assert a uniform regional women's format or movement rule.

Reserve and development

Réserves Élite, Espoirs and youth competitions are separately published FFR families, not extra senior first-team XV levels.

  • Parallel families

    The FFR release separately names Réserves Élite, Reichel Espoirs Élite and Accession, Espoirs Nationaux and Fédéraux, plus national U18 and U16 families.

  • No parent-club inference

    A reserve, development or age-grade competition participant is not presented as a senior first team or a canonical Frostlete club identity.

Territorial competition

The FFR navigation lists 13 mainland territorial leagues, and the reviewed organization record identifies seven overseas committees. Their catalogues, providers, phases, and rights are organizer-specific rather than one nationally interchangeable dataset.

  • Regional ownership

    Regional labels, pools, formats, reserve structures and phases remain with the relevant territorial organizer; this guide does not combine them into a single national table or directory.

Separate formats

IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS is an LNR professional club sevens event, separate from the men's XV families.

  • Professional sevens

    The LNR's 2026/27 calendar identifies qualifying stages and a final for IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS; these are event stages, not permanent XV hierarchy levels.

Club census and history boundary

FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is a dated communications and locator observation, not a retained all-affiliate census. LNR and FFR publish strong but differently scoped history sources that do not create one canonical all-France honours table.

  • No additive club denominator

    Professional entrants, federal association records, territorial directories, and overseas lists are differently scoped and cannot be added into an all-club count.

  • History remains owner and family scoped

    The LNR first-division register and bounded PRO D2 and FFR palmarès evidence preserve cancelled, no-award, unknown, display-name, and identity distinctions rather than being recomputed into club honours.

Coverage

What you can use today

Scores and tables

Results source not connected

Frostlete has not connected or republished French tables, fixtures or results. FFR and LNR source destinations remain withheld under the reviewed owner terms pending exact permission.

No public club or score route claimed

Club coverage

Canonical review not complete

A canonical French club census is blocked. FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is not a dated row-reconciled all-affiliate export, and professional, federal, women's, reserve, development, territorial and overseas records require separate identity and lifecycle review.

No public club or score route claimed

League families

Where each competition sits

Top 14

permanent family

LNR's first professional men's XV competition family. Its table, results, participants and season phases remain on the official source.

Pro D2

permanent family

LNR's second professional men's XV competition family. Its official surface identifies the seasonal connection to Nationale without supplying a Frostlete route.

Nationale

permanent family

FFR's first federal men's XV family below Pro D2. The reviewed 2025/26 record establishes a championship final and a separate Pro D2 access match, without supplying a complete season table or canonical participant map.

Nationale 2

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 24 entrants in two 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 1

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 48 entrants in four 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 2

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 96 entrants in eight 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 3

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family before organizer-specific territorial handoffs. The owner publishes 160 entrants in 16 10-team groups; Frostlete does not reproduce rows, results or movement.

Élite 1 Féminine

permanent family

The top FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes one 10-entry group; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Élite 2 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes one 10-entry group; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 1 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes 32 entrants in four groups of eight; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 2 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's family whose reviewed boundary retains XV, XII and X provisions. The family and final schedule are published, but no complete current group denominator or participant projection is claimed.

Reserves, development and youth

parallel competition

FFR reserve, Espoirs and youth families run alongside senior first-team competitions and are not merged into them.

Territorial rugby

parallel competition

Regional competitions are owned and organized by their territorial league. The national projection does not assert identical pools, formats or inter-league movement.

Movement relationship not verified.

IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS

event

An LNR professional club sevens event, retained outside the men's XV hierarchy.

Connected Rugby Atlas pages

Explore the reviewed records

These pages come from the reviewed public projection and remain useful without a native table or result feed.

Competition familyTOP 14Competition familyPRO D2Competition familyNationaleCompetition familyNationale 2Competition familyFédérale 1Competition familyFédérale 2Competition familyFédérale 3Competition familyÉlite 1 FéminineCompetition familyÉlite 2 FéminineCompetition familyFédérale 1 FéminineCompetition familyFédérale 2 Féminine

Clubs

Club identity coverage

A canonical French club census is blocked. FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is not a dated row-reconciled all-affiliate export, and professional, federal, women's, reserve, development, territorial and overseas records require separate identity and lifecycle review.

Verification

Official source records used

FFR and LNR source records support this independently written structure guide, but outbound links are withheld because the reviewed owner terms require prior permission. No fixture, result, table, participant, club, history, asset, or people data is republished here.

  • LNR Top 14 official standings surface

    Official Top 14 competition surface and its professional hierarchy markers

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR Pro D2 official standings surface

    Official Pro D2 competition surface and its current Pro D2 to Nationale markers

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR 2026/27 professional calendar

    Official LNR calendar statement for Top 14, Pro D2 and IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 federal competition families

    Official 2026/27 FFR senior men's, women's, reserve, development and youth family labels

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 federal calendar rollout

    Official FFR direction to current federal competition calendars on Mon Club House

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR Mon Club House competition navigation

    Official FFR competition surface and navigation to the 13 mainland territorial leagues

    Reviewed source record

  • Ligue Nationale de Rugby public website

    Exact public URL for Ligue Nationale de Rugby; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission.

    Reviewed source record

  • Fédération Française de Rugby public website

    Exact public URL for Fédération Française de Rugby; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission.

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR-LNR professional competition convention 2022–2027

    Official delegation and approval boundary for LNR-operated professional competitions

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 men's federal group denominators

    Published 2026/27 Nationale through Fédérale 3 planning groups and entrant denominators; no reuse or canonical identity approval

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 women's federal group denominators

    Published 2026/27 national women's and reserve planning groups; no reuse or canonical identity approval

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 Espoirs and youth group denominators

    Published 2026/27 Espoirs and age-grade planning groups, including deferred or contingent catalogue boundaries

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 1,977-club recruitment campaign claim

    Dated FFR communications figure and locator handoff only; not an all-affiliate row denominator

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR interactive club finder

    Official locator surface without a complete downloadable roll, cutoff, or reconciliation count

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2025/26 association identity and lifecycle regulations

    Association-owned affiliation number plus name-change, dormancy, fusion, cooperation, rassemblement, and foreign-structure boundaries

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR overseas-committee topology observation

    Seven-overseas-committee organization boundary; not proof of seven equivalent live catalogues

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR congress overseas-committee roster

    FFR Commission Outre-mer enumeration of the seven overseas committees; organization only, not a current live-catalogue or club-census claim

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR men's first-division championship history

    Owner-published 1892–2026 first-division champion register with explicit no-championship, Covid, and omitted-period distinctions

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR PRO D2 bounded historical register

    Owner-published 2001–2019 winner window; later outcomes and promoted-club fields remain separately typed

    Reviewed source record
Browse country guides
Standings/Countries/France
Structure guideSources checked Aug 17, 2026

How rugby is organised in France

French rugby has separate LNR professional men's, FFR federal and national women's, and organizer-specific territorial and overseas competition branches. Published family and group denominators do not establish a reusable all-club census or a single rights scope.

Governing authorityLigue Nationale de RugbyGoverning authorityFédération Française de RugbyGoverning authorityFFR territorial leagues

Hierarchy

The country structure

Permanent leagues, seasonal phases and parallel competitions stay separate so a cup or playoff is not mistaken for a league tier.

Senior men

Top 14 and Pro D2 are LNR professional families. Nationale, Nationale 2 and Fédérale 1–3 are FFR federal families; their season-specific movement rules are not republished here.

  • LNR professional families

    Top 14 is above Pro D2. The checked Pro D2 surface identifies an access match with the Nationale finalist and direct relegation to Nationale, without turning phases or outcomes into a Frostlete table rule.

  • FFR federal families

    The 2026/27 FFR release names Nationale, Nationale 2 and Fédérale 1, 2 and 3 as federal senior men's families.

Senior women

The national women's XV families named by the FFR are AXA Élite 1 Féminine, Élite 2 Féminine, Fédérale 1 Féminine and Fédérale 2 Féminine.

  • National women's XV families

    These are kept separate from men's federal and territorial labels; this projection does not assert a uniform regional women's format or movement rule.

Reserve and development

Réserves Élite, Espoirs and youth competitions are separately published FFR families, not extra senior first-team XV levels.

  • Parallel families

    The FFR release separately names Réserves Élite, Reichel Espoirs Élite and Accession, Espoirs Nationaux and Fédéraux, plus national U18 and U16 families.

  • No parent-club inference

    A reserve, development or age-grade competition participant is not presented as a senior first team or a canonical Frostlete club identity.

Territorial competition

The FFR navigation lists 13 mainland territorial leagues, and the reviewed organization record identifies seven overseas committees. Their catalogues, providers, phases, and rights are organizer-specific rather than one nationally interchangeable dataset.

  • Regional ownership

    Regional labels, pools, formats, reserve structures and phases remain with the relevant territorial organizer; this guide does not combine them into a single national table or directory.

Separate formats

IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS is an LNR professional club sevens event, separate from the men's XV families.

  • Professional sevens

    The LNR's 2026/27 calendar identifies qualifying stages and a final for IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS; these are event stages, not permanent XV hierarchy levels.

Club census and history boundary

FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is a dated communications and locator observation, not a retained all-affiliate census. LNR and FFR publish strong but differently scoped history sources that do not create one canonical all-France honours table.

  • No additive club denominator

    Professional entrants, federal association records, territorial directories, and overseas lists are differently scoped and cannot be added into an all-club count.

  • History remains owner and family scoped

    The LNR first-division register and bounded PRO D2 and FFR palmarès evidence preserve cancelled, no-award, unknown, display-name, and identity distinctions rather than being recomputed into club honours.

Coverage

What you can use today

Scores and tables

Results source not connected

Frostlete has not connected or republished French tables, fixtures or results. FFR and LNR source destinations remain withheld under the reviewed owner terms pending exact permission.

No public club or score route claimed

Club coverage

Canonical review not complete

A canonical French club census is blocked. FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is not a dated row-reconciled all-affiliate export, and professional, federal, women's, reserve, development, territorial and overseas records require separate identity and lifecycle review.

No public club or score route claimed

League families

Where each competition sits

Top 14

permanent family

LNR's first professional men's XV competition family. Its table, results, participants and season phases remain on the official source.

Pro D2

permanent family

LNR's second professional men's XV competition family. Its official surface identifies the seasonal connection to Nationale without supplying a Frostlete route.

Nationale

permanent family

FFR's first federal men's XV family below Pro D2. The reviewed 2025/26 record establishes a championship final and a separate Pro D2 access match, without supplying a complete season table or canonical participant map.

Nationale 2

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 24 entrants in two 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 1

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 48 entrants in four 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 2

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 96 entrants in eight 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 3

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family before organizer-specific territorial handoffs. The owner publishes 160 entrants in 16 10-team groups; Frostlete does not reproduce rows, results or movement.

Élite 1 Féminine

permanent family

The top FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes one 10-entry group; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Élite 2 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes one 10-entry group; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 1 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes 32 entrants in four groups of eight; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 2 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's family whose reviewed boundary retains XV, XII and X provisions. The family and final schedule are published, but no complete current group denominator or participant projection is claimed.

Reserves, development and youth

parallel competition

FFR reserve, Espoirs and youth families run alongside senior first-team competitions and are not merged into them.

Territorial rugby

parallel competition

Regional competitions are owned and organized by their territorial league. The national projection does not assert identical pools, formats or inter-league movement.

Movement relationship not verified.

IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS

event

An LNR professional club sevens event, retained outside the men's XV hierarchy.

Connected Rugby Atlas pages

Explore the reviewed records

These pages come from the reviewed public projection and remain useful without a native table or result feed.

Competition familyTOP 14Competition familyPRO D2Competition familyNationaleCompetition familyNationale 2Competition familyFédérale 1Competition familyFédérale 2Competition familyFédérale 3Competition familyÉlite 1 FéminineCompetition familyÉlite 2 FéminineCompetition familyFédérale 1 FéminineCompetition familyFédérale 2 Féminine

Clubs

Club identity coverage

A canonical French club census is blocked. FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is not a dated row-reconciled all-affiliate export, and professional, federal, women's, reserve, development, territorial and overseas records require separate identity and lifecycle review.

Verification

Official source records used

FFR and LNR source records support this independently written structure guide, but outbound links are withheld because the reviewed owner terms require prior permission. No fixture, result, table, participant, club, history, asset, or people data is republished here.

  • LNR Top 14 official standings surface

    Official Top 14 competition surface and its professional hierarchy markers

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR Pro D2 official standings surface

    Official Pro D2 competition surface and its current Pro D2 to Nationale markers

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR 2026/27 professional calendar

    Official LNR calendar statement for Top 14, Pro D2 and IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 federal competition families

    Official 2026/27 FFR senior men's, women's, reserve, development and youth family labels

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 federal calendar rollout

    Official FFR direction to current federal competition calendars on Mon Club House

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR Mon Club House competition navigation

    Official FFR competition surface and navigation to the 13 mainland territorial leagues

    Reviewed source record

  • Ligue Nationale de Rugby public website

    Exact public URL for Ligue Nationale de Rugby; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission.

    Reviewed source record

  • Fédération Française de Rugby public website

    Exact public URL for Fédération Française de Rugby; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission.

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR-LNR professional competition convention 2022–2027

    Official delegation and approval boundary for LNR-operated professional competitions

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 men's federal group denominators

    Published 2026/27 Nationale through Fédérale 3 planning groups and entrant denominators; no reuse or canonical identity approval

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 women's federal group denominators

    Published 2026/27 national women's and reserve planning groups; no reuse or canonical identity approval

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 Espoirs and youth group denominators

    Published 2026/27 Espoirs and age-grade planning groups, including deferred or contingent catalogue boundaries

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 1,977-club recruitment campaign claim

    Dated FFR communications figure and locator handoff only; not an all-affiliate row denominator

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR interactive club finder

    Official locator surface without a complete downloadable roll, cutoff, or reconciliation count

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2025/26 association identity and lifecycle regulations

    Association-owned affiliation number plus name-change, dormancy, fusion, cooperation, rassemblement, and foreign-structure boundaries

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR overseas-committee topology observation

    Seven-overseas-committee organization boundary; not proof of seven equivalent live catalogues

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR congress overseas-committee roster

    FFR Commission Outre-mer enumeration of the seven overseas committees; organization only, not a current live-catalogue or club-census claim

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR men's first-division championship history

    Owner-published 1892–2026 first-division champion register with explicit no-championship, Covid, and omitted-period distinctions

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR PRO D2 bounded historical register

    Owner-published 2001–2019 winner window; later outcomes and promoted-club fields remain separately typed

    Reviewed source record
Browse country guides
Standings/Countries/France
Structure guideSources checked Aug 17, 2026

How rugby is organised in France

French rugby has separate LNR professional men's, FFR federal and national women's, and organizer-specific territorial and overseas competition branches. Published family and group denominators do not establish a reusable all-club census or a single rights scope.

Governing authorityLigue Nationale de RugbyGoverning authorityFédération Française de RugbyGoverning authorityFFR territorial leagues

Hierarchy

The country structure

Permanent leagues, seasonal phases and parallel competitions stay separate so a cup or playoff is not mistaken for a league tier.

Senior men

Top 14 and Pro D2 are LNR professional families. Nationale, Nationale 2 and Fédérale 1–3 are FFR federal families; their season-specific movement rules are not republished here.

  • LNR professional families

    Top 14 is above Pro D2. The checked Pro D2 surface identifies an access match with the Nationale finalist and direct relegation to Nationale, without turning phases or outcomes into a Frostlete table rule.

  • FFR federal families

    The 2026/27 FFR release names Nationale, Nationale 2 and Fédérale 1, 2 and 3 as federal senior men's families.

Senior women

The national women's XV families named by the FFR are AXA Élite 1 Féminine, Élite 2 Féminine, Fédérale 1 Féminine and Fédérale 2 Féminine.

  • National women's XV families

    These are kept separate from men's federal and territorial labels; this projection does not assert a uniform regional women's format or movement rule.

Reserve and development

Réserves Élite, Espoirs and youth competitions are separately published FFR families, not extra senior first-team XV levels.

  • Parallel families

    The FFR release separately names Réserves Élite, Reichel Espoirs Élite and Accession, Espoirs Nationaux and Fédéraux, plus national U18 and U16 families.

  • No parent-club inference

    A reserve, development or age-grade competition participant is not presented as a senior first team or a canonical Frostlete club identity.

Territorial competition

The FFR navigation lists 13 mainland territorial leagues, and the reviewed organization record identifies seven overseas committees. Their catalogues, providers, phases, and rights are organizer-specific rather than one nationally interchangeable dataset.

  • Regional ownership

    Regional labels, pools, formats, reserve structures and phases remain with the relevant territorial organizer; this guide does not combine them into a single national table or directory.

Separate formats

IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS is an LNR professional club sevens event, separate from the men's XV families.

  • Professional sevens

    The LNR's 2026/27 calendar identifies qualifying stages and a final for IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS; these are event stages, not permanent XV hierarchy levels.

Club census and history boundary

FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is a dated communications and locator observation, not a retained all-affiliate census. LNR and FFR publish strong but differently scoped history sources that do not create one canonical all-France honours table.

  • No additive club denominator

    Professional entrants, federal association records, territorial directories, and overseas lists are differently scoped and cannot be added into an all-club count.

  • History remains owner and family scoped

    The LNR first-division register and bounded PRO D2 and FFR palmarès evidence preserve cancelled, no-award, unknown, display-name, and identity distinctions rather than being recomputed into club honours.

Coverage

What you can use today

Scores and tables

Results source not connected

Frostlete has not connected or republished French tables, fixtures or results. FFR and LNR source destinations remain withheld under the reviewed owner terms pending exact permission.

No public club or score route claimed

Club coverage

Canonical review not complete

A canonical French club census is blocked. FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is not a dated row-reconciled all-affiliate export, and professional, federal, women's, reserve, development, territorial and overseas records require separate identity and lifecycle review.

No public club or score route claimed

League families

Where each competition sits

Top 14

permanent family

LNR's first professional men's XV competition family. Its table, results, participants and season phases remain on the official source.

Pro D2

permanent family

LNR's second professional men's XV competition family. Its official surface identifies the seasonal connection to Nationale without supplying a Frostlete route.

Nationale

permanent family

FFR's first federal men's XV family below Pro D2. The reviewed 2025/26 record establishes a championship final and a separate Pro D2 access match, without supplying a complete season table or canonical participant map.

Nationale 2

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 24 entrants in two 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 1

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 48 entrants in four 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 2

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family. The owner publishes 96 entrants in eight 12-team groups; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework and does not reproduce fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 3

permanent family

A separate FFR federal men's XV family before organizer-specific territorial handoffs. The owner publishes 160 entrants in 16 10-team groups; Frostlete does not reproduce rows, results or movement.

Élite 1 Féminine

permanent family

The top FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes one 10-entry group; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Élite 2 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes one 10-entry group; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 1 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's XV family. The owner publishes 32 entrants in four groups of eight; Frostlete retains a participant-free planning framework without copied fixtures, results or movement.

Fédérale 2 Féminine

permanent family

A separate FFR-owned senior women's family whose reviewed boundary retains XV, XII and X provisions. The family and final schedule are published, but no complete current group denominator or participant projection is claimed.

Reserves, development and youth

parallel competition

FFR reserve, Espoirs and youth families run alongside senior first-team competitions and are not merged into them.

Territorial rugby

parallel competition

Regional competitions are owned and organized by their territorial league. The national projection does not assert identical pools, formats or inter-league movement.

Movement relationship not verified.

IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS

event

An LNR professional club sevens event, retained outside the men's XV hierarchy.

Connected Rugby Atlas pages

Explore the reviewed records

These pages come from the reviewed public projection and remain useful without a native table or result feed.

Competition familyTOP 14Competition familyPRO D2Competition familyNationaleCompetition familyNationale 2Competition familyFédérale 1Competition familyFédérale 2Competition familyFédérale 3Competition familyÉlite 1 FéminineCompetition familyÉlite 2 FéminineCompetition familyFédérale 1 FéminineCompetition familyFédérale 2 Féminine

Clubs

Club identity coverage

A canonical French club census is blocked. FFR's 1,977-club campaign figure is not a dated row-reconciled all-affiliate export, and professional, federal, women's, reserve, development, territorial and overseas records require separate identity and lifecycle review.

Verification

Official source records used

FFR and LNR source records support this independently written structure guide, but outbound links are withheld because the reviewed owner terms require prior permission. No fixture, result, table, participant, club, history, asset, or people data is republished here.

  • LNR Top 14 official standings surface

    Official Top 14 competition surface and its professional hierarchy markers

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR Pro D2 official standings surface

    Official Pro D2 competition surface and its current Pro D2 to Nationale markers

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR 2026/27 professional calendar

    Official LNR calendar statement for Top 14, Pro D2 and IN EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 federal competition families

    Official 2026/27 FFR senior men's, women's, reserve, development and youth family labels

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 federal calendar rollout

    Official FFR direction to current federal competition calendars on Mon Club House

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR Mon Club House competition navigation

    Official FFR competition surface and navigation to the 13 mainland territorial leagues

    Reviewed source record

  • Ligue Nationale de Rugby public website

    Exact public URL for Ligue Nationale de Rugby; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission.

    Reviewed source record

  • Fédération Française de Rugby public website

    Exact public URL for Fédération Française de Rugby; this destination does not independently establish competition format, season participation, native-data access, or reuse permission.

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR-LNR professional competition convention 2022–2027

    Official delegation and approval boundary for LNR-operated professional competitions

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 men's federal group denominators

    Published 2026/27 Nationale through Fédérale 3 planning groups and entrant denominators; no reuse or canonical identity approval

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 women's federal group denominators

    Published 2026/27 national women's and reserve planning groups; no reuse or canonical identity approval

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2026/27 Espoirs and youth group denominators

    Published 2026/27 Espoirs and age-grade planning groups, including deferred or contingent catalogue boundaries

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 1,977-club recruitment campaign claim

    Dated FFR communications figure and locator handoff only; not an all-affiliate row denominator

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR interactive club finder

    Official locator surface without a complete downloadable roll, cutoff, or reconciliation count

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR 2025/26 association identity and lifecycle regulations

    Association-owned affiliation number plus name-change, dormancy, fusion, cooperation, rassemblement, and foreign-structure boundaries

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR overseas-committee topology observation

    Seven-overseas-committee organization boundary; not proof of seven equivalent live catalogues

    Reviewed source record

  • FFR congress overseas-committee roster

    FFR Commission Outre-mer enumeration of the seven overseas committees; organization only, not a current live-catalogue or club-census claim

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR men's first-division championship history

    Owner-published 1892–2026 first-division champion register with explicit no-championship, Covid, and omitted-period distinctions

    Reviewed source record

  • LNR PRO D2 bounded historical register

    Owner-published 2001–2019 winner window; later outcomes and promoted-club fields remain separately typed

    Reviewed source record
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