2007–08 EDF Energy Cup
2007–08 EDF Energy Cup | |
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Tournament details | |
Countries | England Wales |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and knockout |
Date | October 2007 - April 2008 |
Tournament statistics | |
Teams | 16 |
Final | |
Venue | Twickenham |
Attendance | 65,756 |
Champions | Wales Ospreys (1st title) |
Runners-up | England Leicester Tigers |
The 2007–08 EDF Energy Cup was the 37th season of England's national rugby union cup competition, and the third to follow the recently adopted Anglo-Welsh format.
As in the previous two years, the competition is contested between the 12 teams of the Guinness Premiership and the four Welsh regions from the Celtic League. The 16 teams are arranged into four pools, with one Welsh and three English teams in each. Teams are randomly drawn into groups, as opposed to previous years when English sides were grouped according to proximity to one another. Each team plays the other team from their group only once, meaning that two teams in each group face two away games, whereas the other two teams have two home games.
Group stage
[edit ]In the pool matches, teams receive:
- Four points for a win
- Two points for a draw
- A bonus point for scoring four or more tries, regardless of the match result
- A bonus point for losing by seven or fewer points
The winner of each pool advances to the semi-finals, at which stage a draw takes place to determine the teams that will play each other. The winners of the semi-final advance to the final to determine the competition winner; no "third place final" is played.
Group A
[edit ]Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | BP | Pts |
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England London Wasps | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 35 | +21 | 1 | 11 |
England Gloucester | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 57 | 58 | −1 | 2 | 8 |
England Newcastle Falcons | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 66 | −13 | 1 | 7 |
Wales Newport Gwent Dragons | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 45 | −7 | 3 | 5 |
15:00
17:30
19:30
15:00
19:30
15:00
Group B
[edit ]Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | BP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
England Leicester Tigers | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 88 | 48 | +40 | 3 | 11 |
Wales Cardiff Blues | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66 | 63 | +3 | 1 | 9 |
England Bath | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 0 | 4 |
England Sale Sharks | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 74 | −26 | 0 | 4 |
19:10
14:15
19:45
14:30
19:40
19:40
Group C
[edit ]Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | BP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wales Ospreys | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 40 | +77 | 2 | 14 |
England Harlequins | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 50 | −10 | 1 | 5 |
England London Irish | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 72 | 88 | −16 | 2 | 6 |
England Worcester Warriors | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 66 | 117 | −51 | 1 | 5 |
14:30
15:00
15:00
15:00
15:00
15:10
Group D
[edit ]Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | BP | Pts |
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England Saracens | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 123 | 79 | +44 | 4 | 12 |
Wales Llanelli Scarlets | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 106 | 69 | +37 | 3 | 11 |
England Bristol | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 46 | 69 | −23 | 0 | 6 |
England Leeds Carnegie | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 60 | 118 | −58 | 1 | 3 |
20:00
15:10
19:10
15:00
14:30
15:00
Knockout stage
[edit ]Semi-finals
[edit ]14:30
17:15
Final
[edit ]14:30