2025 Rugby Europe Championship

2025 Rugby Europe Championship
Date	31 January – 16 March 2025
Countries	Belgium  Georgia  Germany  Netherlands  Portugal  Romania  Spain   Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Attendance	17,200 (4,300 per match)
Tries scored	42 (10.5 per match)
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The 2025 Rugby Europe Championship is the ongoing, ninth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, and the 54th 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 took part in the 2024 championship. The championship was contested by Belgium, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Poland. Georgia won the previous championship after defeating Portugal in the final, claiming their 16th title. Poland were relegated. After winning the 2023-24 Rugby Europe Trophy, Switzerland were promoted to the Championship for the 2025 season. This is the first time in their history that they are in the top division.^{[citation needed]}

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.

This year's edition of the Rugby Europe Championship doubles as the year of the 2027 Rugby World Cup qualifiers for the European region. The top two sides from each pool will qualify for the Rugby World Cup, with the final & bronze final acting as seeding matches to seed the team Europe 1–4. The Ranking Finals will then act as the play-off to determine Europe 5, who will advance to the final qualification tournament.

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	Location
Belgium	Stade Charles Tondreau	8,000	Mons	Laurent Dossat	Jens Torfs
Georgia	Avchala Stadium	3,500	Tbilisi	Richard Cockerill	Vasil Lobzhanidze
Germany	Auestadion	18,737	Kassel	Mark Kuhlmann	Jörn Schröder
Netherlands	NRCA Stadium	7,000	Amsterdam	Lyn Jones	Hugo Langelaan
Portugal	Estádio do Restelo Estádio Nacional	19,856 37,593	Lisbon	Simon Mannix	Tomás Appleton
Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf Botoșani Municipal Stadium	8,207 7,782	Bucharest Botoșani	David Gérard	Ovidiu Cojocaru
Spain	Estadio Nacional Complutense	12,400	Madrid	Pablo Bouza	Jon Zabala
Switzerland	Stade Municipal Yverdon	6,600	Yverdon-les-Bains	Olivier Nier	Cyril Lin

Nation	Rank	Began play	Qualifying status
Belgium	27	1 February 2025
England	4	N/A	Qualified with Top 12 finish at 2023 World Cup
France	3	N/A	Qualified with Top 12 finish at 2023 World Cup
Georgia	12	1 February 2025
Germany	32	31 January 2025
Ireland	7	N/A	Qualified with Top 12 finish at 2023 World Cup
Italy	15	N/A	Qualified with Top 12 finish at 2023 World Cup
Netherlands	26	2 February 2025
Portugal	15	1 February 2025
Romania	20	31 January 2025
Scotland	8	N/A	Qualified with Top 12 finish at 2023 World Cup
Spain	18	2 February 2025
Switzerland	28	1 February 2025
Wales	5	N/A	Qualified with Top 12 finish at 2023 World Cup

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	1	1	0	0	110	0	+110	16	0	+16	1	0	5
2	Spain	1	1	0	0	53	24	+29	7	3	+4	0	0	5
3	Netherlands	1	0	0	1	24	53	-29	3	7	-4	0	0	0
4	Switzerland	1	0	0	1	0	110	-110	0	16	-16	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

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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	Romania	1	1	0	0	48	10	+38	6	1	+5	1	0	5
2	Portugal	1	1	0	0	40	30	+10	6	3	+3	1	0	5
3	Belgium	1	0	0	1	30	40	-10	3	6	-3	0	0	0
4	Germany	1	0	0	1	10	48	-38	1	6	-5	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

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	Semi-finals				Europe 1/2 playoff
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					Europe 3/4 playoff
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	Semi-finals				Europe 5 playoff
	TBD
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					Seventh-place final
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Pos.	Team	Points	2027 RWC qualification	WRNC Division 2 qualification
1	TBA	10	Qualified as Europe 1	Qualified as Europe 1
2	TBA	8	Qualified as Europe 2	Qualified as Europe 2
3	TBA	6	Qualified as Europe 3	Qualified as Europe 3
4	TBA	5	Qualified as Europe 4	Qualified as Europe 4
5	TBA	4	Advances to FQT as Europe 5
6	TBA	3
7	TBA	2
8	TBA	1

Country	Broadcaster	Summary
Belgium	VRT LN24	Belgium games shown live via VRT and LN24.
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 Joyn Ran	Germany games shown live via ProSieben Maxx, other games are streamed and free on Joyn and Ran.
Netherlands	Ziggo	Selected games live on Ziggo Sport.
Portugal	Sport TV	Portugal games shown live on Sport TV.
Romania	TVR1 TVR Sport.	Romania games shown live via TVR1 and TVR Sport.
Spain	Teledeporte RTVE Play	Spain games shown live via Teledeporte and .RTVE Play digital platform.
Switzerland	RTS 2 SRI digital	Switzerland games shown live via RTS 2 channel and SRI digital platforms.
North America	FloRugby	All games available through streaming via FloSports.
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

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