2016-17 Rugby Europe Divisions

[Armchair Fan Profile]

Old game sheets can be found here: http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/rugby-europe/documentation

[getienne Profile]

Thank you very much.
I never thought of looking for them there !

[Canalina Profile]

A senegalese named Cherokee is the new coach of the turkish national team. Quite unusual

[dwpeate Profile]

not the right thread, but Gibraltar's Facebook announce a test friendly against Finland on April 8th

[Neptune Profile]

How come the Rugby Europe games have ended so early? I haven't seen a Georgia - Romania game or a Russia - Germany game. Could somebody please clarify this for me. Thankyou.

[RugbyLiebe Profile]

How come the Rugby Europe games have ended so early? I haven't seen a Georgia - Romania game or a Russia - Germany game. Could somebody please clarify this for me. Thankyou.

Bro, please google something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Rugb ... ampionship

Answer: bye-week

Edit: or even better: join the tipping competition. No better way to be up to date with the matches coming up the next weekend

[Neptune Profile]

How come the Rugby Europe games have ended so early? I haven't seen a Georgia - Romania game or a Russia - Germany game. Could somebody please clarify this for me. Thankyou.

Bro, please google something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Rugb ... ampionship

Answer: bye-week

Edit: or even better: join the tipping competition. No better way to be up to date with the matches coming up the next weekend

Thanks RugbyLiebe, although you sound sarcastic.

[RugbyLiebe Profile]

Thanks RugbyLiebe, although you sound sarcastic.

Sorry, I fail to understand why people in general tend to ask long questions, that a really simple google search would reveal to them within seconds.

But the tipping competition is indeed a great way to stay up-to-date. I really recommend it to everyone.

[Canalina Profile]

The situation, with just a pair of weekend missing

Championship
All done. Belgium finished at the bottom and on may 20th will have to battle with Portugal to avoid relegation

Trophy
All done. Portugal dominated the pool and continues in RWC qualifying. The other teams are out of the RWC. Ukraine is relegated

Conf I North
Promotion and RWC qualifying: Czech Rep (14 pts), Lithuania (9) and Sweden (5) still on battle.
Relegation: Sweden (5), Latvia (5) and Luxembourg (1) still involved.
To be played Let-Swe, Lux-Cze, Swe-Lit

Conf I South
Promotion and RWCQ: Malta (15) and Croatia (6) involved
Steady: Israel (14)
Relegation: Croatia (6), Andorra (4) and Cyprus (1) involved
To be played Cro-Mal e Cyp-Cro

Conf II North
Promotion and RWC qualifying: Hungary (14) and Denmark (10) involved
Relegation: Finland (5), Norway (4), Estonia (0) involved
To be played: Est-Den, Fin-Hun, Nor-Est

Conf II South
Promotion and RWC qualifying: Bosnia (13) and Austria (12) involved
Steady: Slovenia (10), Serbia (4)
Relegation: Turkey (retired) probably relegated
To be played: Serbia-Austria

Development
This pool has still to begin but by the rules Bulgaria, Slovakia and Montenegro are not part of the RWC qualifying

[NedRugby Profile]

Isn't there a promotion/relegation playoff between the lower divisions, or only the championship and the trophy?

[Ser Podrick of Payne Profile]

It does look like there should be some play-offs; e.g. for REIC & RWCQ

- 1st Conference 1 North or South V 1st Conference 1 South or North: 20th May 2017 - probably Czech Rep v Malta is supposed to be 20th May

and for RWCQ: Winner Conference 2 North or South V Winner Conference South or North - Bosnia & H v (probably )Hungary

The winners should meet the following weekend for RWCQ playoff, and then in November against the winner of the Trophy

See http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/reic-promotio ... ing-rounds

At least that is what it looks like!

[YamahaKiwi Profile]

The latest WR rankings update says there will be playoffs as per above post.

[delpy Profile]

The latest WR rankings update says there will be playoffs as per above post.

There will be play-offs in some conferences, for example, last one in REC vs the first in RETrophy, and two winners of Conference 1 - South and North (Czech Rep. and Malta - this will ALSO be a RWC qualifying match) will play for ONE place in RETrophy, but no play-offs in conference 2, the winners are directly promoted to conference 1, BUT there will be a RWC qualifiers between those two winners. I hope this helps at all

[NedRugby Profile]

Yes, it's all crystal clear now.

[sammo Profile]

What about the Development competition? Will the winner automatically be in Conference 2 next year (presumably in place of Turkey)?

[Canalina Profile]

What about the Development competition? Will the winner automatically be in Conference 2 next year (presumably in place of Turkey)?

I think so it is

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Tomorrow... in central Europe time
13.00 (C2 n) Finland v Hungary http://www.rugbyeurope.tv
14.00 (C1 s) Cyprus v Croatia
15.00 (C2 n) Sweden Lithuania
15.00 (C2 n) Norway v Estonia http://www.rugbyeurope.tv
16.00 (C1 n) Luxembourg v Czech Rep. http://www.rugbyeurope.tv

- Hungary need two points to win the pool and get promoted to conference I and to the RWCQ next step
- Cyprus need a victory to overcome Andorra and avoid relegation
- Sweden need one point to be sure to avoid relegation, Lithuania need a bp-victory to hope in an unlikely first place
- Norway and Estonia have not special aims: the relegation spot should be assured to Turkey
- Luxembourg need a bp-victory to hope to avoid relegation, the czechs need just one point to be sure to win the pool

[Canalina Profile]

Rugby Europe published the play-off dates

20 may
Belgium v Portugal
Czech Rep. v Malta
Hungary v Bosnia Herzegovina

27 may
winner Czech/Malt v winner Hung/Bosn

[Canalina Profile]

The 6N/REC 2017 almost-final ranking

1 England
2 Ireland
3 France
4 Scotland
5 Wales
6 Italy
7 Romania
8 Georgia
9 Spain
10 Russia
11 Germany
12 Belgium
13 Portugal
14 Netherlands
15 Switzerland
16 Poland
17 Moldova
18 Ukraina
19 Czech Republic
20 Malta
21 Lithuania
22 Israel
23 Croatia
24 Latvia
25 Sweden
26 Andorra
27 Cyprus
28 Luxembourg
29 Hungary
30 Bosnia Herzegovina
31 Denmark
32 Austria
33 Slovenia
34 Norway
35 Serbia
36 Finland
37 Estonia
38 Turkey
39-41 Bulgaria, Slovakia, Montenegro

Not playing: Iceland, Belarus, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia

[sammo Profile]

Have Liechtenstein ever played a full XVs test?

[victorsra Profile Website]

20 may
Belgium v Portugal
Czech Rep. v Malta
Hungary v Bosnia Herzegovina

27 may
winner Czech/Malt v winner Hung/Bosn

Weird that the winner of Czech/Malta will have 1 week to organize and promote a key home match. I can't see a reason why this match is not n June.

The playoff involving Portugal against the Conference 1 champions will be in November, right?

[delpy Profile]

[Canalina Profile]

Rugby Europe published the REC 2018 calendar
http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/competitions/ ... mpionships

Maybe it's just me but the barrage Portugal v Belgium isn't still to be played?
They put Belgium in Championship and Portugal in Trophy

PS: ok, I've seen now on wikipedia. The barrage has been played in may and Belgium won. I totally missed (or forgot) it, I thought they were going to play it in september

[dwpeate Profile]

Great! So it's only the development fixtures to be confirmed from what I could see at a glance.

Other question: Portugal play Czech Republic on Novemeber 18th in pool play. Will this also double as their world cup qualifier I wonder?

[Silver Fox Profile]

Yep: http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/competitions/rwc2019-europe-qualification-rounds