The 1999 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the
1998–99 Heineken Cup
The 1998–99 Heineken Cup was the fourth edition of the Heineken Cup. Competing teams from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales, and Scotland, were divided into four pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other. Cardiff a ...
, the fourth season of Europe's top club
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
competition. The match was played on 30 January 1999 at
Lansdowne Road
Lansdowne Road Stadium ( ga, Bóthar Lansdún, ) was a stadium in Dublin owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) that was primarily used for rugby union and association football matches. The stadium was demolished in 2007 to make way for ...
in
Dublin
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. The match was contested by
Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kin ...
of Ireland and
Colomiers
Colomiers (; oc, Colomèrs; Languedocien dialect: ''Colomièrs'') is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitania region in Southwestern France. With a population of 39,968 as of 2019, it is the largest suburb of the city of Toul ...
of France. Ulster won the match 21–6.
Colomiers opened the scoring through a
Laurent Labit
Laurent Labit (born 8 May 1973) is a retired French rugby union footballer, and current backs coach of the French national team.
Early life
Labit was born in Revel, France. He began his playing career in his home town of Rugby Club Revélois b ...
penalty, but Ulster fullback
Simon Mason responded with four of his own before half-time. After the break, captain and fly-half
David Humphreys added a
drop goal
A drop goal, field goal, or dropped goal is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league and also, rarely, in American football and Canadian football.
A drop goal is scored by drop kicking the ball (dropping the ball and then kicki ...
, before Colomiers recorded another penalty from substitute
Mickaël Carré, but Mason was able to kick two more for Ulster to put the match out of Colomiers' reach. Ulster centre
Jonny Bell was named man of the match.
Match details
See also
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1998–99 Heineken Cup
The 1998–99 Heineken Cup was the fourth edition of the Heineken Cup. Competing teams from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales, and Scotland, were divided into four pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other. Cardiff a ...
References
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Final
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
* Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
1999
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1999 in Northern Ireland sport
1998–99 in Irish rugby union
1998–99 in French rugby union
US Colomiers matches
Ulster Rugby matches