title: 2019 Tahiti Championship season
text: # 2019 Tahiti Championship season
  
  The 2019 Tahiti Championship competition was the 46th season of the Tahitian domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Fédération Polynésienne de Rugby (FPR).
  
  ## Teams
  
  | Club | City (commune) | Stadium | Capacity | Previous season |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Arue | Papeete, Arue | Stade Fautaua | 10,000 | 5th |
  | Faa’a | Papeete, Faa’a | Stade Fautaua | 10,000 | Champions (1st in league) |
  | Paea | Papeete, Paea | Stade Fautaua | 10,000 | Did not compete |
  | Papeete | Papeete | Stade Fautaua | 10,000 | 4th place (2nd in league) |
  | Pirae | Papeete, Pirae | Stade Fautaua | 10,000 | Runners up (3rd in league) |
  | Punaauia | Papeete, Punaauia | Stade Fautaua | 10,000 | 3rd-place winners (4th in league) |
  | Taravao | Taravao (Taiarapu-Est) | Taravao | | 6th |
  
  ## Number of teams by regions
  
  All but one team this season are from Papeete or suburbs of the Papeete Urban Area.
  
  | Teams | Region or island | Team(s) |
  | - | - | - |
  | 7 | Tahiti | Arue, Faa’a, Paea, Papeete, Pirae, Punaauia and Taravao |
  
  ## Competition format
  
  The top four teams at the end of the regular season (after all the teams played one another once) enter a knockout stage to decide the Champions of Tahiti. This consists of two rounds. The semi-finals, with the losers meeting for 3rd place and with the winners meeting in the final at the Stade Fautaua in Pirae.
  
  Tahiti's bonus point system operates as follows:
  
  * 4 points for a win.
  * 2 points for a draw.
  * 1 point for a loss.
  * No point for a forfeit.
  * 1 bonus point for scoring at least 4 tries (or more).
  * 1 bonus point for losing by 7 points (or fewer).
  
  ## Table
  
  2019 Tahiti Championship Table
  
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  | | Club | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points For | Points Against | Points Diff. | Yellow Cards | Red Cards | Try Bonus | Losing Bonus | Points |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Arue (VC) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 168 | 44 | +124 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 25 |
  | 2 | Pirae (C) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 296 | 66 | +230 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 25 |
  | 3 | Punaauia (SF) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 147 | 87 | +60 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
  | 4 | Papeete (SF) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 156 | 108 | +48 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 19 |
  | 5 | Paea (R) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 106 | 205 | -99 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
  | 6 | Faa’a (DC) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 82 | 151 | -69 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
  | 7 | Taravao | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 38 | 332 | -294 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
  | If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: Competition points earned in head-to-head matches Points difference in head-to-head matches Try differential in head-to-head matches Points difference in all matches Try differential in all matches Points scored in all matches Tries scored in all matches Fewer matches forfeited Classification in the previous Tahiti Championship season ||||||||||||||
  | Green background (rows 1 and 4) receive semi-final play-off places. Pink background (rows 5–7) may be relegated to Tahiti Championship D2. Final table — source: |||||||||||||||
  