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Revision as of 09:02, 18 September 2008
The pool stage of the 2008–09 Heineken Cup will begin on 10 November 2008, with the final round scheduled for the weekend beginning 23 January 2009. This is the first year for which qualified teams are to be seeded for the group stage.
Ranking system
The 24 teams were ranked according to previous progress in the Heineken Cup, with teams from the same tier and same country being placed in separate pools. The brackets show each team's ERC Ranking before the start of the 2008/2009 season.
Tier 1 | Munster (1) | Toulouse (2) | Biarritz (3) | Leicester Tigers (4) | Stade Français (5) | London Wasps (6) |
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Tier 2 | Leinster (7) | Bath (8) | Gloucester (9) | Perpignan (10) | Sale Sharks (12) | Llanelli Scarlets (13) |
Tier 3 | Ospreys (15) | Cardiff Blues (17) | Clermont (18) | Newport Gwent Dragons (20) | Ulster (21) | Castres (22) |
Tier 4 | Glasgow Warriors (24) | Benetton Treviso (25) | Edinburgh (28) | Calvisano (32) | Harlequins (35) | Montauban |
The draw for the pool stage took place on 17 June 2008 in Dublin.[1]
Seeding and Runners-up
The winners of each of the six pools are seeded 1 to 6 first by points, then tries scored, and finally score difference. The runners-up are similarly sorted, and the best two are seeded seven and eight and progress to the quarter-finals alongside the six winners. The top four seeds are given home matches in the quarter-finals, with seed 1 playing seed 8, seed 2 playing seed 7 etc.
Pool 1
Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/- | BP | Pts |
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Munster | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clermont | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Montauban | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pool 2
Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/- | BP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wasps | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Leinster | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Castres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pool 3
Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/- | BP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Leicester Tigers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Perpignan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ospreys | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Benetton Treviso | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pool 4
Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/- | BP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stade Français | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Llanelli Scarlets | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ulster | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Harlequins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pool 5
Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/- | BP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Toulouse | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bath | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Newport Gwent Dragons | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pool 6
Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/- | BP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Biarritz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gloucester | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cardiff Blues | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Calvisano | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |