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It was held in a variety of formats with a variety of names including the European Nations Cup and the Rugby Europe Nations Championship. The competition today is split into 3 levels. The highest level is now called the Rugby Europe Championship and, unofficially, was referred to as the Six Nations B, although the event now features eight teams.
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
The European Rugby Champions Cup is an annual rugby union competition for European clubs whose countries compete in the Six Nations Championship.Introduced in 2014, the competition replaced the Heineken Cup, which had been run by European Rugby Cup (ERC) since 1995, following disagreements between its shareholders over the structure and governance of the competition.
The top nations in the rugby world will all be in action as a hectic programme of November Tests gets underway across Europe. The Autumn Nations Series returns a year after a captivating World Cup ...
Wales have been drawn in Pool C for the tournament in France
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.
The 2023 Rugby Europe Championship was the seventh Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union 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).
The predecessor to Rugby Europe was the Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur (FIRA), which was established in 1934 to administer rugby union in Europe outside the authority of the International Rugby Football Board (as World Rugby was then called), and came to spread outside the continent. FIRA agreed to come under the auspices of World ...