Draft:2025 Rugby Europe Championship

2025 Rugby Europe Championship
Date	February – March 2025
Countries	Belgium Georgia Germany Netherlands Portugal Romania Spain Switzerland
Tournament statistics
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The 2025 Rugby Europe Championship will be the ninth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 54rd 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).

Eight teams took part in the 2024 championship. The championship was contested by Belgium, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Switzerland.

Georgia entered the tournament as defending champions. They won the final against Portugal in the 2024 tournament, claiming their 16th title. The serpentine system was applied to allocate each team to their respective groups. Each team played a total of five games (three round robin group matches to determine the team's path and two play-off matches). Seeding (for a group) and relegation are calculated over a two-year cycle, as is the promotion from the Trophy competition.

This year's edition of the Rugby Europe Championship doubles as the year of the 2027 Rugby World Cup qualifiers for the European region. The first four teams automatically qualify for the tournament as Europe 1, Europe 2, Europe 3 and Europe 4, respectively while the team in fifth place advances to the final qualification tournament as Europe 5.

Participants

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	Location
Belgium	Stade Nelson Mandela	2,100	Brussels	Mike Ford	Jens Torfs
Georgia	Avchala Stadium	3,500	Tbilisi	Richard Cockerill	Merab Sharikadze
Germany	Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark Stadion Pichterich	5,000 6,000	Heidelberg Neckarsulm	Mark Kuhlmann	Jörn Schröder
Netherlands	NRCA Stadium	7,000	Amsterdam	Lyn Jones	Hugo Langelaan
Portugal	Estádio do Restelo Estádio Nacional	19,856 37,593	Lisbon	Simon Mannix	Tomás Appleton
Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf	8,207	Bucharest	David Gérard	Mihai Macovei
Spain	Estadio El Malecón Estadio Nacional Complutense Estadio Nuevo Vivero	6,007 12,400 14,898	Torrelavega Madrid Badajoz	Pablo Bouza	Jon Zabala
Switzerland	Stade Municipal Yverdon Colovray Sports Centre Centre Sportif des Cherpines	6,600 7,200 1,000	Yverdon-les-Bains Nyon Plan-les-Ouates	Olivier Nier	Cyril Lin

Tables and fixtures

Group A

Advances to the Grand Finals Semi-Finals

Advances to the Ranking Finals Semi-Finals

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Diff
1	Georgia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Source - Points were awarded to the teams as follows: Win – 4 points | Draw – 2 points | At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point | Loss within 7 points – 1 point

Week 1

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Week 2

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Week 3

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Group B

Advances to the Grand Finals Semi-Finals

Advances to the Ranking Finals Semi-Finals

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Diff
1	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Source - Points were awarded to the teams as follows: Win – 4 points | Draw – 2 points | At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point | Loss within 7 points – 1 point

Week 1

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TBA Referee: TBA

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Week 2

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Week 3

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Ranking Finals

Semi-finals

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TBA Referee: TBA

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Seventh-place final

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Fifth-place final

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Grand Finals

Semi-finals

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Bronze Final

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Final

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Final standings

Main article: 2027 Rugby World Cup qualifying

Pos.	Team	Points	2027 RWC qualification
1	TBA	10	Qualified as Europe 1
2	TBA	8	Qualified as Europe 2
3	TBA	6	Qualified as Europe 3
4	TBA	5	Qualified as Europe 4
5	TBA	4	Advances to FQT as Europe 5
6	TBA	3
7	TBA	2
8	TBA	1

International broadcasters

Country	Broadcaster	Summary
Belgium	—	Rugby Europe (registration required)
Georgia	Rugby TV Imedi TV	Georgia games shown live via Rugby TV and Imedi TV. Also Georgia games are streamed and free on Rugby TV Facebook page
Germany	—	Rugby Europe (registration required)
Netherlands	Ziggo	Selected games live on Ziggo Sport
Poland	TVP Sport	Poland's home games shown live
Portugal	Sport TV	Portugal games shown live
Romania	—	Rugby Europe (registration required)
Spain	Teledeporte	Spain games shown live via Teledeporte
Switzerland	TBA
France	RugbyZone Archived 2022-02-01 at the Wayback Machine	All games available through streaming via RugbyZone Archived 2022-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
North America	FloRugby	All games available through streaming via FloSports
Rest of the World	Rugby Europe	All games available through streaming via Rugby Europe (registration required). Some games are streamed and free on Rugby Europe Youtube channel

See also

• Rugby Europe International Championships
• Antim Cup