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2001 Heineken Cup final

Football match

2001 Heineken Cup Final

Event	2000–01 Heineken Cup
Leicester Tigers Stade Français 34 30
Date	19 May 2001
Venue	Parc des Princes, Paris
Referee	David McHugh (Ireland)
Attendance	44,000
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The 2001 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the 2000–01 Heineken Cup, the sixth season of Europe's top club rugby union competition. The match was played on 19 May 2001 at the Parc des PrincesinParis. The match was contested by Stade FrançaisofFrance and Leicester TigersofEngland. Leicester Tigers won the match 34–30.

Going into the final stages of the game, the scores were level at 27–27. A drop goal from Diego Domínguez then put Stade three points ahead. Meanwhile, Leicester brought on replacement scrum-half Jamie Hamilton for starting fly-half Andy Goode, with starting scrum-half Austin Healey switching to fly-half. Glenn Gelderbloom was also brought on at outside centre, with Leon Lloyd switching from outside centre to wing.

Leicester won a penalty just inside their own half and kicked to the left-hand touchline. The resulting line-out throw was too high and but it was cleaned up by Neil Back at the back of the line. Back passed the ball to out to Healey, though the pass forced Healey to check his run to gather the ball. With the two sets of opposing backs 20 metres apart for the line-out, the Tigers backs executed a pre-called backs move. Healey would dummy scissors with inside centre Pat Howard, another dummy scissors with outside centre Glenn Gelderbloom before the ball would be passed to the big full back Tim Stimpson who would take the ball into contact. Howard drew Domínguez and Gelderbloom drew the Stade inside centre, but the Stade outside centre who had only been on the field a few minutes, drifted onto Stimpson. Healey broke the Stade defensive line through the gap, before drawing the full back and putting Leon Lloyd in the right hand corner.

Lloyd's second try of the game gave Leicester a two-point lead, with the conversion to come. If Stimpson missed, another goal would give Stade the lead. If he scored the conversion, however, Stade would need a try. The kick from the right-hand touchline was from the most difficult position on the field for a right-footed kicker. Stimpson however hit the conversion straight between the posts, and Leicester were able to hang on to their lead for victory.

Stade Français	30–34	Leicester Tigers
Pen: Dominguez (9) 4', 16', 21', 27', 39', 46', 57', 68', 71' Drop: Dominguez 77'	EPC Report BBC Report	Try: Lloyd (2) 41' m, 79' c Back 59' c Con: Stimpson (2) 59', 79' Pen: Stimpson (5) 6', 10', 30', 64', 73'

FB 15 Christophe Dominici RW 14 Thomas Lombard OC 13 Franck Comba IC 12 Cliff Mytton LW 11 Arthur Gomes FH 10 Diego Domínguez SH 9 Morgan Williams N8 8 Christophe Juillet OF 7 Richard Pool-Jones BF 6 Christophe Moni RL 5 Mike James LL 4 David Auradou TP 3 Pieter de Villiers HK 2 Fabrice Landreau LP 1 Sylvain Marconnet Replacements: OC 16 David Venditti FL 17 Patrick Tabacco HK 18 Mathieu Blin N8 19 Pablo Lemoine LK 20 Darren George LP 21 Julien Berthe SH 22 Christophe Laussucq Coach: John Connolly

FB 15 Tim Stimpson RW 14 Geordan Murphy  76' OC 13 Leon Lloyd IC 12 Pat Howard LW 11 Winston Stanley FH 10 Andy Goode  72' SH 9 Austin Healey N8 8 Will Johnson  36' OF 7 Neil Back BF 6 Martin Corry RL 5 Ben Kay LL 4 Martin Johnson (c) TP 3 Darren Garforth HK 2 Dorian West LP 1 Graham Rowntree Replacements: OC 16 Glenn Gelderbloom  76' SH 17 Jamie Hamilton  72' HK 18 Richard Cockerill LP 19 Perry Freshwater TP 20 Ricky Nebbett N8 21 Paul Gustard  36' FL 22 Lewis Moody Coach: Dean Richards

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