2024 Rugby Europe Championship

2024 Rugby Europe Championship
Date	3 February – 17 March 2024
Countries	Belgium Georgia Germany Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Spain
Tournament statistics
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The 2024 Rugby Europe Championship will be the eighth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 53rd 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).

Eight teams will take part in the 2024 championship. The championship will be contested by Belgium, Georgia, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, and Spain.

Georgia will be entering the tournament as defending champions. They won the final against Portugal in the 2023 tournament, claiming their 15th title. The serpentine system was applied to allocate each team to their respective groups. Each team plays a total of five games (three round robin group matches to determine the team's path and two play-off matches). Seeding (for a group) and relegation are calculated over a two-year cycle, as is the promotion from the Trophy competition.

Participants

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	Location
Belgium	Stade Charles Tondreau Stade du Pachy	8,000 3,000	Mons Waterloo	Laurent Dossat	Jens Torfs
Georgia	Avchala Stadium	2,500	Tbilisi	Richard Cockerill	Merab Sharikadze
Germany	Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark Stadion Pichterich	5,000 6,000	Heidelberg Neckarsulm	Mark Kuhlmann	Jörn Schröder
Netherlands	NRCA Stadium	7,000	Amsterdam	Lyn Jones	Hugo Langelaan
Poland	Narodowy Stadion Rugby	2,425	Gdynia	Christian Hitt	Piotr Zeszutek
Portugal	Estádio do Restelo Estádio Nacional	19,856 37,593	Lisbon	Daniel Hourcade (interim)	Tomás Appleton
Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf	8,207	Bucharest	David Gérard	Mihai Macovei
Spain	Estadio El Malecón Estadio Nacional Complutense Estadio Nuevo Vivero	6,007 12,400 14,898	Torrelavega Madrid Badajoz	Pablo Bouza	Jon Zabala

Tables and Fixtures

Group A

Advances to the Grand Finals Semi-Finals

Advances to the Ranking Finals Semi-Finals

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	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
2	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Source - 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

Week 1

3 February 2024 13:15 CET (UTC+1)

Netherlands	v	Spain

NRCA Stadium, Amsterdam Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)

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4 February 2024 15:00 CET (UTC+1)

Germany	v	Georgia

Paul Greifzu Stadium, Dessau-Roßlau Referee: Tom Spurrier (Wales)

Week 2

10 February 2024 14:00 GET (UTC+4)

Georgia	v	Netherlands

Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi Referee: TBA

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11 February 2024 12:45 CET (UTC+1)

Spain	v	Germany

Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid Referee: TBA

Week 3

17 February 2024 16:00 GET (UTC+4)

Georgia	v	Spain

Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi Referee: TBA

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18 February 2024 13:30 CET (UTC+1)

Netherlands	v	Germany

NRCA Stadium, Amsterdam Referee: TBA

Group B

Advances to the Grand Finals Semi-Finals

Advances to the Ranking Finals Semi-Finals

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Diff
1	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Poland	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
4	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Source - 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

Week 1

3 February 2024 20:00 CET (UTC+1)

Belgium	v	Portugal

Stade Charles Tondreau, Mons Referee: Saba Abulashvili (Georgia)

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4 February 2024 18:15 CET (UTC+1)

Poland	v	Romania

Narodowym stadion dla rugby, Gdynia Referee: Keane Davison (Ireland)

Week 2

10 February 2024 14:30 EET (UTC+2)

Romania	v	Belgium

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest Referee: TBA

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10 February 2024 19:00 WET (UTC+0)

Portugal	v	Poland

Estádio Nacional, Lisbon Referee: TBA

Week 3

17 February 2024 16:30 EET (UTC+2)

Romania	v	Portugal

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest Referee: TBA

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17 February 2024 19:00 CET (UTC+1)

Belgium	v	Poland

Stade du Pachy, Waterloo Referee: TBA

Ranking Finals

Semi-finals

2-3 March 2024 TBA

TBA	v	TBA

TBA Referee: TBA

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2-3 March 2024 TBA

TBA	v	TBA

TBA Referee: TBA

Seventh-place final

17 March 2024 12:00 CET (UTC+1)

TBA	v	TBA

Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris Referee: TBA

Fifth-place final

17 March 2024 14:45 CET (UTC+1)

TBA	v	TBA

Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris Referee: TBA

Grand Finals

Semi-finals

2-3 March 2024 TBA

TBA	v	TBA

TBA Referee: TBA

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2-3 March 2024 TBA

TBA	v	TBA

TBA Referee: TBA

Bronze Final

17 March 2024 18:15 CET (UTC+1)

TBA	v	TBA

Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris Referee: TBA

Final

17 March 2024 21:00 CET (UTC+1)

TBA	v	TBA

Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris Referee: TBA

Two-Year overall standings

Relegated

2023-24 Rugby Europe Championships

Pos	Event  Team	2023	2024	Points total
1	Georgia	10	0	0
2	Portugal	8	0	0
3	Romania	6	0	0
4	Spain	5	0	0
5	Netherlands	4	0	0
6	Germany	3	0	0
7	Belgium	2	0	0
8	Poland	1	0	0

International broadcasters

Country	Broadcaster	Summary
Belgium	—	Rugby Europe (registration required)
Georgia	Rugby TV Imedi TV	Georgia games shown live via Rugby TV and Imedi TV. Also Georgia games are streamed and free on Rugby TV Facebook page
Germany	ProSieben Maxx	Pro7 Maxx for Germany games, with others via their streaming platform Joyn
Netherlands	Ziggo	Netherlands' games only.
Poland
Portugal	Sport TV	Portugal games shown live
Romania	—	Rugby Europe (registration required)
Spain	Movistar Plus+	Spain games only
Rest of the World	Rugby Europe	All games available through streaming via Rugby Europe (registration required). Some games are streamed and free on Rugby Europe Youtube channel

See also

• Rugby Europe International Championships
• Antim Cup