Fans of the Top 14 clubs can start thinking about organizing end-of-year parties! From this Wednesday we know the programming of the 13th and 14th day of the Top 14, which will take place around Christmas and New Year. The 13th day, commonly called “Boxing Day” (although “Boxing Day” is not only about 26 December, according to the English tradition) and dedicated to derbies (between more or less geographically distant clubs), will begin on Thursday 22 December with the poster between Toulon and Lyon at 21:00. The next day, four matches will start at 6.45pm: Brive – Clermont, Montpellier – Perpignan, Pau – Bayonne and La Rochelle – Bordeaux-Bègles. Then Toulouse will receive Castres from 21:00. The next day, a few hours before New Year’s Eve, Ile-de-France rugby fans will be able to open their stomachs with the derby between Racing 92 and Stade Français at Paris La Défense Arena, where kick-off will take place. be given at 3pm
Five matches scheduled for December 31st
After celebrating Christmas, the players and fans of the Top 14 clubs will meet the following week. Friday 30 December Bordeaux-Bègles and the French champion Montpellier will open the fourteenth day at 21:00 clashing in Chaban-Delmas. The next day, Bayonne and Toulon will battle from 3pm. So the last multiplex of the year 2022 will see Castres and Racing 92, Lyon and Brive, Perpignan and La Rochelle, Stade Français and Pau opposing each other. Finally, to kick off 2023 in style, the Top 14 will offer a poster between Clermont and Toulouse on January 1st at 9pm. We hope that these days of vacation are going better than last year, where several meetings had to be postponed due to cases of covid in the world of work …
