The French Rugby Federation (FFR) wants the postponed France versus Ireland Six Nations game to be rescheduled for next season.

“France wants the match to be played next season due to the scheduling problems presented by the Top 14 (French domestic league),” said FFR chief Pierre Camou.

Saturday night’s game at the Stade de France fell victim to the frigid conditions just minutes before referee Dave Pearson was due to whistle for it to start, leaving 80,000 fans to vent their frustrations.

The Six Nations organising committee were initially looking at playing the match in one of the two upcoming “free” weekends during the course of this year’s tournament, which were next weekend or the weekend of March 3-4.

But following a Six Nations Council meeting on Monday, the committee confirmed that the match would “not take place this weekend (February 17/18/19)”.

The committee was to meet again on Tuesday with Camou saying he doubted they would agree to the FFR request to hold over the game till next season.