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| Carcassonne vs Avignon |
The ten-team league has been completed and the final table is below. The previous season was null and void due to the coronavirus. Eighteen matches made up the season with six teams moving on to the finals. Below colour is used to show the sides who progressed and those who can contemplate next season.
Carcassonne won the last league title played in 2019 (2020 was cancelled) as well as 2016 and 2015. So winning the league is getting to be a habit. Lézignan last won in 2017. St Estève was victorious in 2018 so that covers the past six years the league was completed.
As for the playoffs, Avignon and St Estève advanced from the first round of knock-out rounds. Unfortunately for both of them, neither advanced from the semi-final phase, with the top two sides from the league defeating them. This set up a classic encounter between the two top sides of the season.
The scores were locked at 12-12 at half time before the Lézignan Sangliers squeaked home 16-12. The last time Lézignan won the grand final was in 2011, although they were losing finalists in 2014 and 2017. Carcassonne won in 2012 and losing finalists 2015, 2016 and 2019. They can add 2021 to that painful list. There was no grand final in 2020.
As the two 2021 grand final teams haven't been winning grand finals of late, who were? St Estève in 2019, Avignon (2018) and Limoux (2016 and 2017), Toulouse (2014 & 2015) and Pia (2013).
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| Lézignan celebrate the grand final victory |
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