1998–99 Heineken Cup

Template:Short description Template:Infobox European Cup Rugby season The 1998–99 Heineken Cup was the fourth edition of the Heineken Cup. Competing teams from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales, and Scotland, were divided into four pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other. Cardiff and Swansea did not compete due to a dispute with their union, the Welsh Rugby Union, whereas teams from England did not compete due to a dispute between European Rugby and the Rugby Football Union. The pool winners and runners-up qualified for the knock-out stages.

Teams

Template:Flagicon France	Template:Flagicon Wales	Template:Flagicon Scotland	Template:Flagicon Ireland	Template:Flagicon Italy
Stade Français Bègles-Bordeaux Perpignan Toulouse Colomiers	Llanelli Neath Ebbw Vale Pontypridd	Edinburgh Glasgow	Leinster Munster Ulster	Petrarca Treviso

Pool stage

In the pool matches teams received 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a defeat.

Pool 1

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Stade Français	6	5	0	1	27	10	17	219	117	102	10
Template:Flagicon Llanelli	6	3	0	3	12	22	−10	113	180	−67	6
Template:Flagicon Leinster	6	2	0	4	17	12	5	141	124	17	4
Template:Flagicon Bègles-Bordeaux	6	2	0	4	11	23	−12	127	179	−52	4

Pool 2

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Perpignan	6	5	0	1	35	13	22	238	108	130	10
Template:Flagicon Munster	6	4	1	1	17	13	4	144	108	36	9
Template:Flagicon Neath	6	1	1	4	14	27	−13	118	194	−76	3
Template:Flagicon Petrarca Padova	6	1	0	5	8	21	−13	79	169	−90	2

Pool 3

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Ulster	6	4	1	1	23	20	3	197	168	29	9
Template:Flagicon Toulouse	6	4	0	2	31	11	20	234	103	131	8
Template:Flagicon Edinburgh Reivers	6	2	1	3	21	14	7	179	146	33	5
Template:Flagicon Ebbw Vale	6	1	0	5	11	41	−30	114	307	−193	2

Pool 4

Team	P	W	D	L	Tries for	Tries against	Try diff	Points for	Points against	Points diff	Pts
Template:Flagicon Colomiers	6	4	0	2	22	10	12	176	121	55	8
Template:Flagicon Pontypridd	6	3	0	3	13	16	−3	160	141	19	6
Template:Flagicon Benetton Treviso	6	3	0	3	13	13	0	142	150	−8	6
Template:Flagicon Glasgow Caledonians	6	2	0	4	10	19	−9	121	187	−66	4

Seeding

Seed	Pool winners	Pts	TF	+/−
1	Template:Flagicon Perpignan	10	35	+130
2	Template:Flagicon Stade Français	10	27	+102
3	Template:Flagicon Ulster	9	23	+29
4	Template:Flagicon Colomiers	8	22	+55
Seed	Pool runners-up	Pts	TF	+/−
5	Template:Flagicon Munster	9	17	+36
6	Template:Flagicon Toulouse	8	31	+131
7	Template:Flagicon Pontypridd	6	13	+19
8	Template:Flagicon Llanelli	6	12	−67

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