2021–22 Rugby Europe Trophy

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The 2021–22 Rugby Europe Trophy is the fifth season of the second premier rugby union competition for European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship which itself is a part of the Rugby Europe International Championships. The confirmed teams that are competing include Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine.

2021–22 Rugby Europe Trophy
Date9 October 2021 – 9 April 2022
Countries Belgium
 Germany
 Lithuania
 Poland
  Switzerland
 Ukraine
Tournament statistics
Champions Belgium (3rd title)
Matches played12
Attendance13,916 (1,160 per match)
Tries scored78 (6.5 per match)
2019–20 (Previous) (Next) 2022–23

Participants

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Nation Stadium Head coach Captain
Home stadium Capacity Location
  Belgium Stade Communal Fallon 2,500 Brussels   Frédéric Cocqu Jean-Maurice Decubber
  Germany Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark 5,000 Heidelberg   Mark Kuhlmann Jörn Schröder
  Lithuania Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium 4,000 Šiauliai   Gediminas Marcišauskas Tautvydas Krasauskas
  Poland Narodowy Stadion Rugby
Stadion Polonii
2,425
7,150
Gdynia
Warsaw
  Christian Hitt Piotr Zeszutek
   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
  Ukraine Spartak Stadium
Skif Stadium
KhTZ Stadium
4,800
3,742
2,000
Odesa
Lviv
Kharkiv
  Valerii Kochanov Oleg Kosariev
Viacheslav Ponomarenko

Table

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Champions and promoted to Championship
Promoted to Championship
Place Nation Games Points Tries TBP LBP Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff For Against Diff
1   Belgium 5 4 0 1 149 76 +73 21 5 +16 4 1 21
2   Poland 5 4 0 1 139 116 +23 15 15 0 1 0 17
3   Germany 5 3 0 2 150 95 +55 16 9 +7 3 2 17
4    Switzerland 5 2 0 3 120 117 +3 9 14 −5 1 0 9
5   Ukraine 5 1 0 4 63 148 −85 9 13 −4 0 1 5
6   Lithuania 5 1 0 4 108 177 −69 12 26 −14 0 1 5
Source - [1]
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
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Fixtures

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9 October 2021
12:50 EEST (UTC +3)
(1 LBP) Ukraine  24–27  Poland
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Yunist Stadion, Lviv
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: John Catteau (Belgium)

23 October 2021
13:50 EEST (UTC+03)
(1 LBP) Lithuania  37–39  Ukraine
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Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai
Attendance: 500
Referee: Ethan Glass (Switzerland)

30 October 2021
13:50 EEST (UTC+03)
Lithuania  16–46  Germany (1 TBP)
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Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai
Attendance: 450
Referee: Gert Visser (Netherlands)

13 November 2021
14:55 CET (UTC+01)
Poland  21–16  Germany (1 LBP)
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Narodowy Stadion Rugby, Gdynia
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Saba Abulashvili (Georgia)
13 November 2021
15:20 CET (UTC+01)
Switzerland  20–28  Lithuania
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Centre Sportif de Colovray, Nyon
Attendance: 1,140
Referee: Dan O'Connell (Germany)

20 November 2021
14:20 CET (UTC+01)
Poland  37–25   Switzerland
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Stadion Polonii, Warsaw
Attendance: N/A
Referee: Eki Fanlo (Spain)

12 February 2022
15:00 CET (UTC+01)
(1 TBP) Belgium  28–0[3]  Ukraine
n/a
n/a
Attendance: n/a
Referee: n/a

19 February 2022
14:50 CET (UTC+01)
(1 LBP) Germany  26–33  Belgium (1 TBP)
Report
Fritz Grunebaum Sportpark, Heidelberg
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Shota Tevzadze (Georgia)

12 March 2022
15:20 CET (UTC+01)
Switzerland  22–18  Belgium (1 LBP)
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Stade des Cherpines, Geneva
Attendance: 1,376
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu (Romania)

19 March 2022
13:45 CET (UTC+01)
(1 TBP) Germany  34–25   Switzerland
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Sportzentrum Martinsee, Heusenstamm
Attendance: 800
Referee: Gert Visser (Ireland)
19 March 2022
14:50 CET (UTC+01)
(1 TBP) Belgium  41–11  Poland
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Sportscentrum Nelson Mandela, Brussels
Attendance: 1,850
Referee: Andrew Cole (Netherlands)

26 March 2022
13:50 EST (UTC+03)
Lithuania  17–29  Belgium (1 TBP)
Report
Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai
Attendance: 300
Referee: Inigo Atorrasagasti (Spain)

9 April 2022
14:35 CEST (UTC+02)
(1 TBP) Poland  43–10  Lithuania
Report
Narodowy Stadion Rugby, Gdynia
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Eugeniu Procopi, (Romania)

16 April 2022
15:00 CEST (UTC +2)
Germany  28–0[4]  Ukraine
n/a
n/a
Attendance: n/a
Referee: n/a

30 April 2022
15:00 EEST (UTC +3)
Ukraine  0–28[5]   Switzerland
n/a
Dynamo Stadium, Kharkiv
Attendance: n/a
Referee: n/a

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2021-22 Rugby Europe Trophy standings".
  2. ^ "Rugby Europe International Championships 2018-2019 Manual" (PDF). Rugby Europe. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 January 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Belgium v Ukraine - Cancelled".
  4. ^ "Germany v Ukraine".
  5. ^ "Ukraine v Switzerland".
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