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Eurosport 2 to air French club rugby in primetime

Eurosport 2 will broadcast live coverage of the French Rugby premiership – The TOP 14 - throughout the season on Fridays in prime time in all Eurosport 2’s territories, except France.

The TOP 14 features the following teams: Albi, Auch, Bayonne, Biarritz, Bourgoin, Brive, Castres, Clermont, Dax, Montauban, Montpellier, Paris (Stade Français), Perpignan and Toulouse.

In terms of players, the majority of the French World Cup team plays in the TOP 14, which will also see more than 60 players who represented their countries in the 2007 World Cup compete in the 2007/2008 season.

The coverage of the Rugby TOP 14 adds to Eurosport 2’s prime time offer in team sports, joining live broadcast on the channel of the basketball, volleyball and handball competitions.