Rugby Europe Women's Championship
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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Rugby Europe Women's Championship is an international competition contested between women's national rugby union teams who are members of Rugby Europe. The competition has its origins in a four nation "European Cup" held in 1988 but did not become an official FIRA competition until 1995. The competition has grown significantly and is divided into three divisions, viz. the Championship, Trophy and Conference.
History
Since 2000 only the winner of the tournament held in between the Rugby World Cups (every four years, as highlighted) is officially recognised "European Champions", although teams winning tournaments in other years are often unofficially also described as "European Champions". This can cause some confusion, not least because the structure of the four-yearly tournament is invariably identical to the annual event. To make identification easier the competitions in the four yearly cycle are highlighted.
The only major difference between the "official" European Championships and other tournaments is that in the latter, between 2001 and 2007, England and France tended not to send their full strength national squads to the competition - though until 2007 they still played as "England" or "France". This has resulted in some confusion about the status of games played by these nations - England do not consider their games to be full internationals (or "tests")[1] and do not award caps, whereas while France also do not give caps to their players in such matches, they do recognise the games as tests matches.[2] FIRA and all other competing nations consider all the games to be "tests".[3]
The 2009 tournament acted as Europe's qualification tournament for the World Cup (all entrants sending full strength squads), after which the test match status problem was finally resolved. From 2010 onwards it was announced [4] that the non-Championship tournaments would be known as the "European Trophy" and any Six Nations entrants would officially be "A" sides (though in 2010 Italy, as they had not qualified for the 2010 World Cup, entered their full strength squad).
Championship tournament
Performance of nations
All tournaments
| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| File:Flag of France.svg France | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| File:Flag of England.svg England | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | ||
| File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland | 2 | 1 | ||
| File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales | 1 | 1 | ||
| File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain | 1 | |||
| File:Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa | 1 | |||
| File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | 1 | 5 | ||
| File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | 2 | 2 | ||
| File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal | 2 | |||
| File:IRFU flag.svg Ireland | 1 | |||
| File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland | 1 |
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Official FIRA tournaments
- File:Flag of France.svg France - 4 titles, 3 runners-up, 1 third, 3 fourths
- File:Flag of England.svg England - 4 titles, 1 runner-up, 2 thirds, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain - 3 titles, 5 runners-up, 3 thirds
- File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy - 3 titles, 1 runner-up, 2 thirds, 2 fourth
- File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland - 2 titles, 1 runner-up, 2 thirds, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden - 1 title, 1 runner-up, 2 thirds, 2 fourth
- File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands - 2 runners-up, 2 third, 4 fourths
- File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales - 1 runner-up, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany - 1 third, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia - 1 third
- File:IRFU flag.svg Ireland - 1 third
"European Championships"
- File:Flag of France.svg France - 5 titles, 1 runner-up, 2 fourths
- File:Flag of England.svg England - 2 titles, 1 runner-up, 1 third, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain - 1 title, 3 runners-up, 1 third
- File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland - 1 runner-up, 2 thirds, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales - 1 runner-up, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain - 1 runner-up
- File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy - 2 thirds
- File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands - 1 third, 2 fourths
- File:IRFU flag.svg Ireland - 1 third
Trophy tournament
Performance of nations
- File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands - 4 titles, 3 runners-up
- File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden - 3 titles, 1 runner-up
- File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia - 2 titles, 3 third
- File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium - 1 title, 2 runners-up, 2 fourths
- File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic - 1 title, 1 runners-up, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of France.svg France French Flanders - 1 title
- File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal - 1 title
- Template:Flagicon French Universities - 1 title
- File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany - 2 runners-up, 4 thirds
- Template:Country data SWI - 2 runners-up, 1 third, 1 fourth
- File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway - 1 runner-up, 3 thirds
- Template:Flagicon French Defence - 1 runner-up
- File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland - 1 third, 2 fourth
- File:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1 third
- File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark - 2 fourths
- File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania - 1 fourth
Conference tournament
| Year | Host | Final | Third place match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | 3rd place | Score | 4th place | ||||
| 2024–25 Details |
Various | TBD | TBD | ||||||
See also
References
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External links
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