2024 Rugby Europe Championship

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2024 Rugby Europe Championship
Date	3 February – 17 March 2024
Countries	Belgium  Georgia  Germany  Netherlands  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Spain
Tournament statistics
Champions	Georgia (16th title)
Antim Cup	Georgia (18th title)
Matches played	20
Attendance	83,163 (4,158 per match)
Tries scored	122 (6.1 per match)
Top point scorer(s)	Portugal Hugo Aubry (48 Points)
Top try scorer(s)	Georgia (country) Aka Tabutsadze (7 Tries)
Player of the tournament	Georgia (country) Ilia Spanderashvili
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The 2024 Rugby Europe Championship was 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 took part in the 2024 championship. The championship was contested by Belgium, Georgia, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Spain.

The serpentine system was applied to allocate each team to their respective groups.^[1] Each team played a total of five games (three round robin group matches to determine the team's path and two play-off matches).^[1] Seeding (for a group) and relegation were calculated over a two-year cycle, as was the promotion from the Trophy competition.^{[1] [2]}

Georgia entered the tournament as defending champions, having won the 2023 tournament final against Portugal. Georgia won the tournament, thus claiming their 16th title, again defeating Portugal in the final.

Nation	Stadium			Head coach	Captain
	Home stadium	Capacity	Location
Belgium	Stade Charles Tondreau Stade du Pachy	8,000 3,000	Mons Waterloo	France Laurent Dossat	Jens Torfs
Georgia	Avchala Stadium Mikheil Meskhi Stadium	2,500 27,223	Tbilisi	England Richard Cockerill	Merab Sharikadze
Germany	Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark Stadion Pichterich	5,000 6,000	Heidelberg Neckarsulm	Germany Mark Kuhlmann	Jörn Schröder
Netherlands	NRCA Stadium	7,000	Amsterdam	Wales Lyn Jones	Hugo Langelaan
Poland	Narodowy Stadion Rugby	2,425	Gdynia	Wales Christian Hitt	Piotr Zeszutek
Portugal	Estádio Nacional Estádio do Restelo	37,593 19,856	Oeiras Lisbon	Argentina Daniel Hourcade (interim)	Tomás Appleton
Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf	8,207	Bucharest	France David Gérard	Mihai Macovei
Spain	Estadio Nacional Complutense	7,000	Madrid	Argentina Pablo Bouza	Mario Pichardie

2023-24 Rugby Europe Championships

Pos	Event  Team	2023	2024	Points total
1	Georgia	10	10	20
2	Portugal	8	8	16
3	Romania [a]	6	5	11
4	Spain [a]	5	6	11
5	Netherlands	4	4	8
6	Germany	3	3	6
7	Belgium	2	2	4
8	Poland	1	1	2

Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Diff
1	Georgia	3	3	0	0	97	30	+67	15	3	+12	2	0	14
2	Spain	3	2	0	1	50	61	-11	6	9	-3	1	0	9
3	Netherlands	3	1	0	2	67	64	+3	8	8	0	1	1	6
4	Germany	3	0	0	3	35	94	-59	4	13	-9	0	0	0
Source - [3] 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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Pos.	Team	Games				Points			Tries			TBP	LBP	Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	For	Against	Diff
1	Portugal	3	2	0	1	109	41	+68	14	5	+9	2	1	11
2	Romania	3	2	0	1	77	75	+2	11	9	+2	1	0	9
3	Belgium	3	2	0	1	59	49	+10	7	6	+1	1	0	9
4	Poland	3	0	0	3	25	105	-80	3	15	-12	0	0	0
Source - [3] 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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Pos.	Team	Points
1	Georgia	10
2	Portugal	8
3	Spain	6
4	Romania	5
5	Netherlands	4
6	Germany	3
7	Belgium	2
8	Poland	1

On 25 March 2024 Rugby Europe published its Team of the Tournament^[4]
Ilia Spanderashvili was voted the player of the tournament by the fans.^[5]

Country	Broadcaster[6]	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 Joyn Ran	Pro7 Maxx for Germany games, with others via streaming platforms Joyn and Ran
Netherlands	Ziggo	Netherlands' games only.
Poland	—	Rugby Europe (registration required)
Portugal	Sport TV	Portugal games shown live
Romania	—	Rugby Europe (registration required)
Spain	Movistar Plus+	Spain games only
Rest of the World	Rugby Europe RugbyPassTV	All games available through streaming via Rugby Europe (registration required). Some games are streamed and free on Rugby Europe Youtube channel One game from each round will be broadcast on World Rugby-owned RugbyPassTV

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