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The 2025 Rugby Europe Championship, which doubles as the qualifying process for the 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup and World Rugby Nations Championship's second division for Europe, is the ongoing, ninth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 54th edition of the competition (including all its ...
The 2024 Rugby Europe Championship was the eighth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 53rd edition of the competition (including all its previous incarnations as the FIRA Tournament, Rugby Union European Cup, FIRA Nations Cup, FIRA Trophy, and European Nations Cup).
Below the Championship a six team Rugby Europe Trophy is contested by tier three nations, with promotion and relegation operating between the Championship and the Trophy. Below that, as of 2024, is the Rugby Europe Conference consisting of the lowest ranked teams in Europe in five pools - previously there had been tiers within the conference.
The Rugby Championship: Argentina (since 2012), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa: 1996: 2022: Annually From its inception through 2011, the competition involved only Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and was known as the Tri Nations. Rugby Europe Women's Championship: Up to 16 European national teams 1988: 2022: Annually
Updated to match(es) played on 15 February 2025. Source: Rugby Europe [1] Rules for classification: If two teams have the same number of points the best ranked will be: 1) match points in the games played between the tied Unions; 2) tries in the games played between the tied Unions; 3) match points difference in all pool games; 4) tries difference for in all pool games; 5) match points for in ...
The 2023–24 Rugby Europe International Championships is the European Championship for tier 2 and tier 3 rugby union nations. Countries Pre ...
It is the 30th season of the pan-European professional club rugby competition and the second season in which Investec are named as title sponsors. For the first time since its 1995 founding (as the Heineken Cup), no Welsh teams are playing in the ERCC, as none of them finished in the top seven of the 2023–24 United Rugby Championship. [1]
The European Rugby Champions Cup trophy was unveiled in October 2014. [82] Crafted by Thomas Lyte, [83] the trophy is made of mixed metals including sterling silver and 18ct gold plating. The cup is designed around the idea of the star representing European rugby, including the previous 19 seasons of European rugby, as the Heineken Cup.