Treize Tournoi
anglo-French rugby league competition
The Treize Tournoi was a short-lived Anglo-French rugby league competition held at the end of the season in 1998. Known as the EMAP Treize Tournoi for sponsorship reasons, the tournament was organised by the First and Second Division Association, and was contested by the winners and runners-up of the First Division, the winners of the Second Division, and three teams from the French Championship.
Teams
Wakefield Trinity
Featherstone Rovers
Lancashire Lynx
St-Estève
Limoux
Villeneuve
Results
English Group
French Group
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Final
Aftermath
Despite some interest in staging the tournament again the following year, this didn't materialise and the Treize Tournoi was never repeated. In 1999, Villeneuve played a "European Challenge" match against a Northern Ford Premiership XIII at Widnes, winning the match 24–14.
In 2012, an Anglo-French Challenge competition took place, consisting of four fixtures between English Championship and French Elite One Championship clubs.
Notes
References
Fletcher, Raymond (1999). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1999. Headline. pp. 258–64.
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