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Revision as of 11:29, 10 June 2014

2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup
Tournament details
Countries England
 France
 Ireland
 Italy
 Scotland
 Wales
 Europe TBD
Tournament format(s)Round-robin and Knockout
Tournament statistics
Teams20
Final
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The 2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup is the first season of the European Rugby Challenge Cup, the upcoming annual rugby union club competition for teams from the top six nations in European rugby. It will replace the European Challenge Cup as Europe's second-tier competition for rugby clubs.[1]

Teams

Twenty teams will qualify for the 2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup, based on their performance in their respective domestic leagues the previous season. The distribution of teams is as follows:[1]

  • France: 8 teams
    • Any teams finishing between 8th-12th position in the Top 14. (5 Teams)
    • The champion, and the winner of the promotion play-off, from the Pro D2. (2 Teams)
    • There will be an 8th team from France, as Stade Français lost the 7th Place play-off for entry into the European Rugby Champions Cup. (1 team)
  • Ireland, Italy, Scotland & Wales: 5 teams
  • Other European Nations: 2 teams
    • Two teams will qualify through the Qualifying Competition, which will involve the 4 best teams from Italy's National Championship of Excellence, plus club sides from second-tier European rugby nations.

So far, 18 teams have qualified. The final places will be awarded through the Qualifying Competition, details of which have not yet been announced

Aviva Premiership Top 14 Pro12 Qualifying Competition
England England France France Ireland Ireland Italy Italy Scotland Scotland Wales Wales Europe Other European Nations

Champions Cup Play-off

Main article: 2014–15 European Rugby Champions–Challenge Cup play-offs

The following teams took part in the play-off to decide the final team in the Champions Cup. The play-off was be held between the 7th placed teams in the Aviva Premiership and the Top 14. The loser of this play-off joins the Challenge Cup.

Aviva Premiership Top 14
England England France France
London Wasps Stade Français

On 29 April 2014, it was announced that this play-off would take place over two legs, on the weekends of 17/18 May and 24/25 May, with a draw being used to determine home advantage for each leg.[3]

The draw took place on 6 May 2014, in Heathrow. Following the draw, the fixtures were announced as follows:[4]

18 May 2014
15:00 BST
London Wasps30 – 29Stade Français
Adams Park
Referee: John Lacey (IRFU)
24 May 2014
14:45 CEST
Stade Français6 – 20London Wasps
Stade Jean-Bouin
Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU)

Stade Français lost the play-off 35 - 50 on aggregate, and will play in the Challenge Cup.

Seeding

The 20 competing teams will be seeded and split into four tiers, seeding will be based on performance in their respective domestic leagues. Where promotion and relegation is in effect in a league, the promoted team will be seeded last, or (if multiple teams are promoted) by performance in the lower tier.[5] So, Lyon – who were Pro D2 champions – will be the seventh Top 14 seed while La Rochelle – who qualified through the Pro D2 play-off – will be the eighth seed.

Where necessary, draws will be used to allocate equal seeded teams to different tiers. For example, a draw will allocate one second seed to Tier 1, the remaining two teams will go into Tier 2.

As with the previous european competition, the European Challenge Cup, teams from the same country will be kept apart where possible. However, as 8 teams have qualified from France, 3 pools will contain two French teams – Oyonnax, Lyon and La Rochelle.

For the purposes of creating the tiers, the clubs are ranked based on their finishing positions in the Top 14, Aviva Premiership, Pro12 and PRO D2 Leagues, or on their qualification via a play-off. Stade Français, Exeter Chiefs and Cardiff Blues are confirmed among the top seeds.

Rank Top 14 Premiership Pro 12 Qualifying Competition
1 France Stade Français England Exeter Chiefs Wales Cardiff Blues FIRA-AER 1
2 France Bordeaux Bègles England Gloucester Scotland Edinburgh FIRA-AER 2
3 France Brive England London Irish Wales Newport Gwent Dragons
4 France Bayonne England Newcastle Falcons Ireland Connacht
5 France Grenoble England London Welsh Italy Zebre
6 France Oyonnax
7 France Lyon
8 France La Rochelle

The following tiers were created from those seedings, the brackets show each teams seeding and their league (for example, 1 Top 14 indicates the team has been seeded 1st from the Top 14).

Tier 1 Wales Cardiff Blues (1 Pro12) England Exeter Chiefs (1 AP) France Stade Français (1 Top 14) England Gloucester(2 AP) Scotland Edinburgh (2 Pro12)
Tier 2 France Bordeaux Bègles (2 Top 14) France Brive (3 Top 14) England London Irish (3 AP) Wales Newport Gwent Dragons (3 Pro12) France Bayonne (4 Top 14)
Tier 3 England Newcastle Falcons (4 AP) Ireland Connacht (4 Pro12) France FC Grenoble (5 Top 14) England London Welsh (5 AP) Italy Zebre (5 Pro12)
Tier 4 France Oyonnax (6 Top 14) France Lyon (7 Top 14) France La Rochelle (8 Top 14) Europe FIRA-AER 1 Europe FIRA-AER 2

Pool stage

Main article: 2013–14 European Rugby Challenge Cup pool stage

The draw will take place on 10 June 2014, at the Stade de la Maladière in Neuchâtel.[6]

Key to colours
     Winner of each pool, advance to quarter-finals.
     Three highest-scoring second-place teams advance to quarter-finals.

Pool 1

Team P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
Wales Cardiff Blues 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
England London Irish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France [[FC Grenoble|Grenoble}} 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
{flagicon|EUR}} FIRA-AER 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pool 2

Team P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
{flagicon|ENG}} Exeter Chiefs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France Bayonne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ireland Connacht 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
{{flagicon|FRA]] La Rochelle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pool 3

Team P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
France Stade Français 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wales Newport Gwent Dragons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
England Newcastle Falcons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FIRA-AER 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pool 4

Team P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
Scotland Edinburgh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France Bordeaux Bègles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
England London Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France Lyon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pool 5

Team P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
England Gloucester 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France Brive 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy Zebre 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France Oyonnax 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Future of European Rugby resolved" (Press release). Rugby Football Union. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Minimum Standards Criteria audit results" (Press release). Rugby Football Union. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  3. ^ Rugby Union - Anglo-French play-off dates announced, AFP 29/5/2014
  4. ^ European Rugby Champions Cup play-off draw, Premiership Rugby
  5. ^ http://www.ercrugby.com/news/28791.php ERCRugby.com. Accessed 8 June 2014
  6. ^ Irish Times - Rugby’s European Champions Cup draw to place on June 10th. Accessed 31/5/14
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