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Below the Championship a six team Rugby Europe Trophy is contested by tier three nations, with promotion and relegation operating between the Championship and the Trophy. Below that, as of 2024, is the Rugby Europe Conference consisting of the lowest ranked teams in Europe in five pools - previously there had been tiers within the conference.
Rugby World Cup Sevens — Sponsored by World Rugby, and held every four years, this was the highest prize in the Sevens version of the game before the introduction of sevens to the Olympics in 2016. It was initially planned for the 2013 edition to be the last, but it was later decided to retain the World Cup Sevens and establish a new four ...
The Rugby Europe Super Cup is an annual men's rugby union club tournament organised by the continental governing body, Rugby Europe.Featuring clubs outside the traditional Six Nations strongholds of the sport, it effectively forms a third tier of European club rugby beneath the EPCR-organised European Rugby Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup. [1]
1878–79 Home Nations rugby union matches [3] 3 14 February 1880 Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow: 3G–0 Scotland: 1879–80 Home Nations rugby union matches [4] 4 19 February 1881 Ormeau Cricket Ground, Belfast: 1G–0 Ireland: 1880–81 Home Nations rugby union matches [5] 5 18 February 1882 Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow (2T) 0G–0 Scotland
The MVCC claims to be the oldest rugby club outside Europe. [41] Rugby also appears to have been the first (non-indigenous) football code to be played in Russia, around a decade before the introduction of association football. [42] Mr Hopper, a Scotsman, who worked in Moscow arranged a match in the 1880s; the first soccer match was in 1892. [42]
The Millennium Trophy (Irish: Corn na Mílaoise) is a rugby union award contested annually by England and Ireland as part of the Six Nations Championship. It was initiated in 1988 as part of Dublin's millennial celebrations. The trophy has the shape of a horned Viking helmet. [3] As of 2025, England have won it 21 times, and Ireland 17 times.
The Ireland team which played France for the first time, beating them 19–8, Ireland's biggest victory in international rugby at that time. The French team which faced Ireland in the 1914 Five Nations Championship. Ireland and France during the 2006 Six Nations. France claim a lineout during their 2014 Six Nations matchup with Ireland.
The predecessor to Rugby Europe was the Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur (FIRA), which was established in 1934 to administer rugby union in Europe outside the authority of the International Rugby Football Board (as World Rugby was then called), and came to spread outside the continent. FIRA agreed to come under the auspices of World ...