2022 Rugby Europe Championship

2022 Rugby Europe Championship
Date	5 February 2022 – 20 March 2022
Countries	Georgia  Netherlands  Portugal  Romania  Russia  Spain
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The 2022 Rugby Europe Championship will be the 6th Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition contested by the national teams of Georgia, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia and Spain, and the 52nd 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).

Georgia enter the tournament as defending champions. They topped the table after winning all of their matches in the 2021 tournament, claiming their 13th title and 10th Grand Slam as a result.^[1]

This year's edition of the Rugby Europe Championship doubles as the second year of the 2023 Rugby World Cup qualifiers for the European region. Where the winner and runner-up of the two-year cycle automatically qualify to the tournament as Europe 1 and Europe 2 respectively while the team in third place advances to the final qualification tournament as Europe 3

Participants[]

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	Location
Georgia	Avchala Stadium Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena Mikheil Meskhi Stadium	2,500 54,202 27,223	Tbilisi	Levan Maisashvili	Merab Sharikadze
Netherlands	NRCA Stadium	7,000	Amsterdam	Zane Gardiner	Dirk Danen
Portugal	Estádio Nacional	37,593	Lisbon	Patrice Lagisquet	Tomás Appleton
Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf	8,207	Bucharest	Andy Robinson	Mihai Macovei
Russia	Mordovia Arena Slava Metreveli Central Stadium	44,442 10,200	Saransk Sochi	Dick Muir	Vitaly Zhivatov
Spain	Estadio Nacional Complutense	12,400	Madrid	Santiago Santos	Fernando López

Table[]

Champions

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	GS	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	0
2	Netherlands	0	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	0
4	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Source - [2] 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 | Completing a Grand Slam – 1 point[3]

Fixtures[]

The tournament's fixtures were announced on 15 December 2021.^[4]

Week 1[]

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Week 2[]

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Week 3[]

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Week 5[]

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