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The 2016–17 Rugby Europe International Championships is the European Championship for tier 2 and tier 3 rugby union nations. The 2016–17 season is the first of its new format and structure, where all Levels play on a one-year cycle, replacing the old format of a two-year cycle, where the teams played each other both home and away.
The 2009–10 edition was also basis for European qualification to the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The 2009 season saw the début of Germany in the top division, Georgia defended their title, and there were wins for Portugal and Russia in Bucharest. Faced with the possibility of missing a Rugby World Cup for the first time, Romania were managed the ...
Rugby World Cup Sevens — Sponsored by World Rugby, and held every four years, this was the highest prize in the Sevens version of the game before the introduction of sevens to the Olympics in 2016. It was initially planned for the 2013 edition to be the last, but it was later decided to retain the World Cup Sevens and establish a new four ...
2016–17 Rugby Europe International Championships; 2016 Rugby Europe Women's Championship; 2014–2016 European Nations Cup First Division; 2014–2016 European Nations Cup Second Division; 2014–2016 European Nations Cup Third Division
The competition replaced the Heineken Cup, which was Europe's top-tier competition for rugby clubs for the first nineteen years of professional European rugby union. [1] The opening round of the tournament took place on the weekend of 14/15/16 October 2016. The final took place on 13 May 2017 at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. [2] [3]
February 6 – March 19: 2016 Six Nations Championship, won by England; Autumn 2014 – Spring 2016: 2014–16 European Nations Cup First Division, won by Georgia; 5 March – 1 October: 2016 Rugby Americas North Championship, won by Mexico; 30 April – 4 June: 2016 Asia Rugby Championship in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea; won by Japan
The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition established in 1987. It is contested by the men's national teams of the member unions of the sport's governing body, World Rugby, and takes place every four years. The winners of the first final were New Zealand, who beat France. South Africa never competed in the first two world ...
2016–17 in European women's rugby union (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "2016–17 in European rugby union" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.