The 2019–20 Top 14 competition was the 121st French domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR). Two new teams from the 2018–19 Pro D2 season were promoted to Top 14 (Bayonne and Brive) in place of the two relegated teams, Perpignan and Grenoble.
Playing was suspended after the 17th Matchday due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France. The season was officially cancelled without any winner or relegation/promotion on 6 May.^[1]

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2019–20 Top 14
Countries	France
Date	24 August 2019 – 1 March 2020
Matches played	119
Attendance	1,672,486 (average 14,055 per match)
Highest attendance	38,503 Bordeaux Bègles v La Rochelle 22 December 2019
Lowest attendance	6,009 Agen v Montpellier 15 September 2019
Top point scorer	Thomas Laranjeira (Brive) 181 points
Top try scorer	Arthur Retière (La Rochelle) 9 tries
Official website
www.lnr.fr/rugby-top-14
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The top six teams at the end of the regular season (after all the teams played one another twice, once at home, once away) enter a knockout stage to decide the Champions of France. This consists of three rounds: the teams finishing third to sixth in the table play quarter-finals (hosted by the third and fourth placed teams). The winners then face the top two teams in the semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.

The LNR uses a slightly different bonus points system from that used in most other rugby competitions. It trialled a new system in 2007–08 explicitly designed to prevent a losing team from earning more than one bonus point in a match,^[2] a system that also made it impossible for either team to earn a bonus point in a drawn match. LNR chose to continue with this system for subsequent seasons.^[3]

France's bonus point system operates as follows:^[3]

• 4 points for a win.
• 2 points for a draw.
• 1 bonus point for winning while scoring at least 3 more tries than the opponent. This replaces the standard bonus point for scoring 4 tries regardless of the match result.
• 1 bonus point for losing by 5 points (or fewer). The margin had been 7 points until being changed prior to the 2014–15 season.

Starting from the 2017–18 season forward, only the 14th placed team will be automatically relegated to Pro D2. The 13th placed team will face the runner-up of the Pro D2 play-off, with the winner of that play-off taking up the final place in Top 14 for the following season.^[4]

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.

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Top points scorers As of 1 March 2020[37] Rank Player Club Games Points 1 Thomas Laranjeira Brive 14 181 2 Anthony Belleau Toulon 15 171 3 Antoine Hastoy Pau 14 139 4 Teddy Iribaren Racing 16 126 5 Julien Dumora Castres 12 123 6 Jonathan Wisniewski Lyon 12 122 7 Jake McIntyre Clermont 9 109 8 Ben Botica Bordeaux Bègles 13 101 9 Matthieu Jalibert Bordeaux Bègles 9 97 10 Zack Holmes Toulouse 8 94

Top try scorers As of 1 March 2020[38] Rank Player Club Games Tries 1 Arthur Retière La Rochelle 13 9 2 Nemani Nadolo Montpellier 7 7 Kylan Hamdaoui Stade Français 16 7 Thomas Combezou Castres 17 7 5 Teddy Thomas Racing 7 6 Xavier Mignot Lyon 12 6 Juan Imhoff Racing 13 6 8 Semi Radradra Bordeaux Bègles 9 5 Loris Tolot Agen 10 5 Martin Laveau Castres 12 5 Anthony Bouthier Montpellier 13 5 Daniel Ikpefan Toulon 13 5 Joris Jurand Brive 14 5 Thibaut Regard Lyon 14 5 Toby Arnold Lyon 15 5 Samuel Marques Pau 15 5 Johann Sadie Agen 15 5

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

• 2019–20 Rugby Pro D2 season