The 2020–21 Top 14 competition is the 122nd

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domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR). After play was suspended following the 17th matchday of the 2019–20 season due to the

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, the season was officially cancelled without any winner or promotion/relegation on 6 May 2020. Of the 2020–21 season, some last round matches were rescheduled for 16/17 January 2021, with the playoffs and final taking place in June 2021.

Teams

Number of teams by regions

Competition format

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

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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, 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. France's bonus point system operates as follows: * 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.

Table

Relegation

Starting from the 2017–18 season forward, only the 14th placed team will be automatically relegated to

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. The 13th placed team will face the runner-up of the

play-off, with the winner of that play-off taking up the final place in Top 14 for the following season.

Fixtures & Results

Round 1

Round 1 rescheduled match

Round 2

Round 3

Round 3 rescheduled match

Round 4

Round 4 rescheduled match

Round 5

Round 5 rescheduled match

Round 6

Round 7

Round 7 rescheduled match

Round 8

Round 8 rescheduled match

Round 9

Round 9 rescheduled match

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 12 rescheduled match

Round 13

Round 13 rescheduled match

Relegation playoff

The team finishing in 13th place faces the runner-up of the

, with the winner of this match playing in the 2021–22 Top 14 and the loser in the 2021–22 Pro D2.

Playoffs

Semi-final Qualifiers

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Semi-finals