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Benjamín Urdapilleta is the Top 14 season top point scorer

Benjamín Urdapilleta is the Top 14 season top point scorer. The Argentine scored 323 points for the season, including 28 points in the final round. He was one of only two players to surpass 300 points for the 2020-2021 season.

The second highest point scorer was Joris Seconds. He has been preferred for much of the campaign to Urdapilleta’s RWC 2019 teammate, Nicolás Sánchez. Segonds finished the regular season with 306 points. He is one of eight Frenchmen of the season’s top 10 point scorers. Urdapilleta and Ihaia West (New Zealand) are the two foreigners; albeit, Segonds is also eligible to apply for Spain.

Displayed below, the top 10 point scorers are spread across 10 different clubs. The four clubs to not have a player among the top 10 are Agen, Brive, Lyon, and Montpellier.

 

TOP 14 2020-2021 SEASON – MOST POINTS SCORED

1 Benjamín Urdapilleta (Castres) – 323
2 Joris Segonds (Stade Français) – 306
3 Antoine Hastoy (Pau) – 282
4 Camille Lopez (Clermont) – 244
5 Gaetan Germain (Bayonne) – 241
6 Louis Carbonel (Toulon) – 232
7 Matthieu Jalibert (Bordeaux) – 201
8 Maxime Machenaud (Racing 92) – 182
9 Ihaia West (La Rochelle) – 168
10 Thomas Ramos (Toulouse) – 165

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