2014–2016 European Nations Cup First Division

April 2014 2014–16 European Nations Cup Autumn 2014 – Spring 2016 Division 1A:GEOGERPORROURUSESPDivision 1B:BELMDANEDPOLSWEUKR GEO (2015, 2016) Division 1A:GEO Merab Kvirikashvili(64 points) Division 1B:BEL Baptiste Lescarboura (55 points) Division 1A:GEO Zurab Zhvania (5 tries) Division 1B:BEL Baptiste Lescarboura (11 tries) 2012–14 2012–14 European Nations Cup First Division 2016–17 2016–17 Rugby Europe International Championships The 2014–16 European Nations Cup First Division is the premier rugby union competition below the Six Nations Championship in Europe. It is divided into two tiers; Division 1A and Division 1B. The divisions play on a two-year cycle with the teams playing each other both home and away. From 2009 onward, the title is awarded according to a one-year ranking.pl http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/article_detail.php?article=1106 ENC 2010–12 – DRAFT New format for the competition FIRA-AER 1 June 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100507210329/http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/article_detail.php?article=1106 7 May 2010 dead dmy-all The competition has been slightly altered for the 2014–16 edition. The top tier Division 1A has seen the relegation of Belgium to Division 1B. They have been replaced with Germany, who finished at the top of Division 1B in the 2012–14 season. The bottom tier division 1B has seen the relegation of the Czech Republic to the European Nations Cup Second Division. They have been replaced by Netherlands who won promotion from Division 2A. The champions of Division 1B will be promoted to Division 1A for the 2017–18 season, while the last placed team in each division will be relegated. Format Table points are determined as follows:FIRA-AER – New bonus point system https://web.archive.org/web/20120403015022/http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/article-48.htm 3 April 2012 FIRA-AER website, published: 15 November 2010, accessed: 15 February 2011 4 points for a win 2 points for a draw 0 point for a loss 1 bonus point for scoring 4 tries in a match 1 bonus point for losing by 7 points or fewer Division 1A 2015 Table + Key2015 champions Place Nation Games Points Tablepoints Played Won Drawn Lost Bonus For Against Diff1GEO (14)5500115842+116212ROU (17)5302310261+41153ESP (21)5302213199+32144RUS (19)53021103119−16135POR (22)5104152100−4856GER (25)5005161186−1251 Pre-tournament World Rugby Rankings in parentheses Games http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/group-229.htm 2014–16 European Nations Cup – ENC 1A Rugby Europe 2014-09-08 7 February 2015 POR 10–37 Team Sheet ROU Nuno Costa 47' c Pedro Ávila Pedro Ávila 26' Robert Dascalu 20' cMihai Macovei 36' cIonut Botezatu 42' cDănuț Dumbravă 47' c Valentin Calafeteanu (4) Valentin Calafeteanu (3) 3', 12', 15' Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon Luke Pearce (England) 1,000 7 February 2015 ESP 43–20 Team Sheet RUS Jesus Recuerda Nunez 13' cMartin Heredia (2) 16', 35' cPedro Martin Enrique (2) 21', 59'Guillaume Rouet 48' cJaime Nava de Olano 56' c Dan Snee (4) Denis Antonov 39' cIgor Galinovsky 79' c Yury Kushnarev (2) Yury Kushnarev (2) 7', 31' Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid Andrew McMenemy (Scotland) 6,500 7 February 2015 GER 8–64 Team Sheet GEO Steffen Liebig 26' Jeremy Te Huia 2' Zurabi Zhvania (3) 12' c, 33' c, 38'Penalty try (2) 16' c, 59'Alexander Todua (2) 39', 63'Lasha Khmaladze 44' cGiorgi Nemsadze 61' cAleksandre Khutsishvili 66' c Lasha Khmaladze (4)Lasha Malaguradze (3) Sportpark Martinsee, Heusenstamm Laurent Cardona (France) 3,000 14 February 2015 GEO 20–15 Team Sheet POR Davit Kacharava 1' Merab Kvirikashvili (5) 23', 38', 40', 46', 70' Pedro Ávila (5) 10' 15', 36', 66', 80' Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi Vlad Iordăchescu (Romania) 12,000 14 February 2015 ROU 29–8 Team Sheet ESP Adrian Apostol 15'Viorel Lucaci 36' cAndrei Ursache 61'Valentin Calafeteanu 63'Marius Sîrbe 75' c Valentin CalafeteanuDănuț Dumbravă Guillaume Rouet 50' Guillaume Rouet 6' Cluj Arena, Cluj-Napoca David Wilkinson (Ireland) 1,500 14 February 2015 GER 22–46 Team Sheet RUS Kehoma Brenner (3) 5', 32' c, 56' c Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) Christopher Hilsenbeck 1' Vasily Artemyev (2) 20', 79' cStanislav Selskii 24' cIgor Kurashov (2) 61' c, 74'Alexey Volkov (2) 65' c, 70' Ramil Gaisin (4) Ramil Gaisin 68' Pforzheim Cedric Marchat (France) 1,300 28 February 2015 ESP 13–26 Team Sheet GEO Julen Goia Iriberri 24' c Brad Linklater Brad Linklater (2) 1', 38' Zurab Zhvania 28' cDavit Kacharava 80' c Merab Kvirikashvili (2) Merab Kvirikashvili (4) 12', 35', 57', 65' Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid Alexandre Ruiz (France) 9,000 28 February 2015 RUS 16–13 Team Sheet ROU Denis Antonov 45' c Ramil Gaisin Ramil Gaisin (3) 13', 54', 59' Valentin Calafeteanu 20' c Valentin Calafeteanu Valentin Calafeteanu (2) 40', 61' Krasnodar Ian Davies (Wales) 1,500 28 February 2015 POR 11–3 Team Sheet GER Francisco Sousa 30' Pedro Bettencourt (2) 76', 80' Christopher Hilsenbeck 55' Estádio Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon Giuseppe Vivarini (Italy) 700 14 March 2015 GEO 33–0 Team Sheet RUS Davit Kacharava 71' cZurab Zhvania 79' cKarlen Asieshvili 80' c Merab Kvirikashvili (3) Merab Kvirikashvili (4) 3', 29, 55', 64' Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi Neil Hennessy (Wales) 30,000 (approx)http://agenda.ge/news/31473/eng Rugby: Georgia beats Russia in European Nations Cup match agenda.ge 14 March 2015 16 March 2015 14 March 2015 POR 8–19 Team Sheet ESP Tomas Noronha 29' Nuno Costa 20' Julen Goia Iriberri 1'Sergi Aubanell Sevilla 65' Sergi Aubanell Sevilla (3) 13', 60', 76' Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição, Coimbra Matthew Carley (England) 2,000 14 March 2015 GER 12–17 Team Sheet ROU Jeremy Te Huia (3) 23', 58', 75' Dale Garner 17' Adrian Apostol 20' Florin Vlaicu (4) 2', 69', 76', 78' Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark, Heidelberg Lloyd Linton (Scotland) 2,513 21 March 2015 ROU 6–15 WR Sheet GEO Valentin Calafeteanu 15'Danut Dumbrava 68' Merab Kvirikashvili (5) 19', 34', 39', 45', 63' Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest Gary Conway (Ireland) 4,500 21 March 2015 RUS 21–8 Team Sheet POR Alexey Panasenko 7' cAlexey Shcherban 59' Yury Kushnarev Yury Kushnarev (3) 19', 40+1', 80+4' Salvador Santos 72' Nuno Costa 25' Slava Metreveli Central Stadium, Sochi Ian Tempest (England) 1,200 21 March 2015 ESP 48–16 Team Sheet GER Julen Goia Iriberri (2) 20', 45' cGuillaume Guy Rouet (2) 50' c, 53'Fabien Francois Grammatico 64' cDavid Barrera Howarth 66' cJesús Recuerda Núñez 70' c Brad Linklater (5) Brad Linklater 12' Kieran Manawatu 59'Umberto Pilla 80' Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) 25', 49' Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid Claudio Blessano (Italy) 2,000 2016 Table Place Nation Games Points Tablepoints Played Won Drawn Lost Bonus For Against Diff1GEO (12)5500418833+155242ROU (16)5401316077+83193RUS (18)53021128115+13144ESP (22)511338488−495GER (23)5113184193−10976POR (30)5005172210−1381 Games http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/group-229.htm 2014–16 European Nations Cup – ENC 1A Rugby Europe 7 January 2016 6 February 2016 17:15 EET (UTC+2) ROU POR 39–14 Reporthttp://www.rugbyeurope.eu/upload/file/1454779512_160206%20ENC1A%20RO%20PT%20Game%20sheet.PDF Archived copy 7 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160206190036/http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/upload/file/1454779512_160206%20ENC1A%20RO%20PT%20Game%20sheet.PDF 6 February 2016 dead dmy-all Stephen Shennan (2) 16', 55'Vlad Nistor (2) 43', 60'Andrei Rădoi 66' Florin Vlaicu (4) 17', 44', 57', 67' Florin Vlaicu (2) 34', 52' Duarte Diniz 21'Diogo van den Toorn 27' Nuno Guedes (2) 23', 29' Cluj Arena, Cluj-Napoca 3,000 Iñigo Atorrasagasti (Spain) 6 February 2016 RUS ESP 22–20 Sochi 400 Luke Pearce (England) 6 February 2016 14:00 GET (UTC+4) GEO GER 59–7 Tbilisi 2,000 Maxime Burlet (Belgium) 13 February 2016 POR GEO 3–29 Lisbon Ian Davies (Wales) 13 February 2016 ESP ROU 18–21 Reporthttp://www.rugbyeurope.eu/upload/file/1455400337_160212%20ENC1A%20ES%20RO%20Game%20sheet.PDF Archived copy 14 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160214184216/http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/upload/file/1455400337_160212%20ENC1A%20ES%20RO%20Game%20sheet.PDF 14 February 2016 dead dmy-all Sébastien Ascarat (2) 36', 59' Bradley Linklater 37' Bradley Linklater (2) 11', 21' Mihai Macovei 27'Valentin Popârlan 44' Florin Vlaicu 45' Florin Vlaicu (3) 48', 66', 70' Madrid 7,000 Alexandre Ruiz (France) 13 February 2016 RUS GER 46–20 Reporthttp://www.rugbyeurope.eu/upload/file/1455372331_160213%20ENC1A%20RU%20DE%20Game%20documents.PDF Archived copy 14 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160214185059/http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/upload/file/1455372331_160213%20ENC1A%20RU%20DE%20Game%20documents.PDF 14 February 2016 dead dmy-all Anton Rudoi (2) 27', 78'Igor Gurashov 17'Viktor Gresev 23'Alexey Shcherban 46'Yuri Kushnarev 67'Mikhail Babaev 71' Ramil Gaisin (2) 17', 27'Yuri Kushnarev (2) 68', 78' Ramil Gaisin 13' Pavel Butenko 54'Jarrid Els 63' Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) 55', 63' Christopher Hilsenbeck (2) 19', 29' Sochi Matteo Liperini (Italy) 27 February 2016 GEO ESP 38–7 Tbilisi Ben Whitehouse (Wales) 27 February 2016 ROU RUS 30–0 Emil Alexandrescu, Iași Lloyd Linton (Scotland) 27 February 2016 GER POR 50–26 http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/match-4434.htm Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion, Hannover 8,173ENC 2016: DRV XV macht großen Schritt in Richtung Klassenerhalt. Frank Murphy (Ireland) 12 March 2016 RUS GEO 7–24 Sochi Matthew Carley (England) 12 March 2016 ESP POR 39–7 Madrid Sean Gallagher (Ireland) 12 March 2016 ROU GER 61–7 Emil Alexandrescu, Iași Claudio Blessano (Italy) 19 March 2016 GEO ROU 38–9 Boris Paichadze, Tbilisi 53,400 Tual Trainini (France) 19 March 2016 POR RUS 21–53 Lisbon Thomas Charabas (France) 19 March 2016 GER ESP 17–17 Sportpark Höhenberg, Cologne 6,214ENC 2016: DRV XV schafft nach Unentschieden gegen Spanien den EM-Klassenerhalt https://web.archive.org/web/20160325004832/http://www.rugby-verband.de/enc-2016-drv-xv-schafft-nach-unentschieden-gegen-spanien-den-em-klassenerhalt/ 25 March 2016 . Radu Petrescu (Romania) Combined table (2015–2016) Place Nation Games Points Tablepoints Played Won Drawn Lost Bonus For Against Diff1GEO (12)101000534675+271452ROU (16)107036262138+124343RUS (18)106043231234−3274ESP (22)104155232207+28235GER (23)101182162396−23486POR (30)101092124310−1966 Note: Portugal is relegated to 2016–17 Rugby Europe Trophy. Division 1B 2014–15 Table 2014–15 champions Place Nation Games Points Bonuspoints Tablepoints Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff1BEL (30)550018978+1112222MDA (29)530215883+754163UKR (32)530210881+271134NED (31)52038174+73115POL (35)5203103146−432106SWE (44)500549226−17700 Pre-tournament IRB rankings in parentheses (as at 1 September 2014) Games http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/group-126.htm ENC 1B 1st Leg FIRA-AER 3 October 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20110825205045/http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/group-126.htm 25 August 2011 dead dmy-all 6 September 2014 POL 29–17 ReportTeam SheetPoland outmuscle Sweden in European rugby cup SWE Tomasz Gasik (2) 5' c, 33' cPiotr Zeszutek 44' cGrzegorz Buczek 79' Banaszek Dawid (3) Banaszek Dawid 77' Jonathon Edwards 18' cPenalty try 68' c Neil Erasmus (2) Neil Erasmus 23' Stadion Polonii, Warsaw Radu Petrescu (Romania) 5,000 18 October 2014 POL 9–8 Team Sheet NED Banaszek Dawid (3) 10', 13', 73' Pieter Mol 63' Tomasz Rokicki 17' Warsaw Maxime Burlet (Belgium) 5,000 18 October 2014 SWE 0–45 Team Sheet UKR Vitalii Krasnodemskyi (2) 2', 32'Sergii Garkavyi (2) 20' c, 37'Oleg Kosariev 55' cEduard Vertyletskyi 80' c Oleg Kosariev (3) Oleg Kosariev (2) 16', 40' Volodymyr Voitov 30' Enköping Graeme Wells (Scotland) 8 November 2014 MDA 29–15 Team Sheet UKR Nicolae Chirila 6'Ion Cavcaliuc 21'Ruslan Dorogan 32' cGheorghe Gajion 65' cMaxim Cobilas 73' Craig Felston (2) Vitalii Krasnodemsky 12' cOleksandr Khomenko 58' Ihor Snisarenko Ihor Snisarenko 18' Dinamo Stadium, Chișinău Thomas Charabas (France) 2,000 15 November 2014 MDA 48–25 Team Sheet POL Oleg Prepelita (4) 7', 32' c, 65' c, 75'Gheorghe Gajion 16' cDumitru Arhip 21'Penalty try 29' cVasili Buzgan 42' Mihai Golubenco (4) Robert Kwiatkowski 38' cTomasz Rokicki (2) 46' c, 50' Dawid Banaszek (2) Dawid Banaszek (2) 4', 40+4' Dinamo Stadium, Chișinău Giuseppe Vivarini (Italy) 900 15 November 2014 BEL 25–10 Team Sheet UKR Julien Berger 48' c Nicolas Meeus Nicolas Meeus (6) 4', 40', 54', 71', 77', 80' Oleksandr Polianskyi 18' c Volodymyr Voitov Andrii Shakura 45' Namur Radu Petrescu (Romania) 1,500 22 November 2014 MDA 57–8 Team Sheet SWE Oleg Prepelita (3) 11' c, 22' c, 63' cGheorghe Gajion 34' cAndrei Romanov (3) 43' c, 47', 69'Mihai Artic 55' cGheorghe Volosciuc 79' Mihai Golubenco (6) Daniel Chamberlain 71' Ian Gowland 9' Dinamo Stadium, Chișinău Tomáš Tuma (Czech Republic) 500 21 February 2015 NED 21–23 Team Sheet BEL Pieter Mol 35'Pascal van Overeem 39' c Leon Koenen Leon Koenen (2) 25', 32'Storm Carroll 77' Penalty try 15' cBaptiste Lescarboura (2) 27', 80' Nicolus Meeus Nicolus Meeus (2) 8', 23' National Rugby Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam Leo Colgan (Ireland) 1,000 28 February 2015 NED 18–10 Team Sheet MDA Dirk Danen 27'Sep Visser 40'Leon Koenen 72' Leon Koenen 5' Veaceslav Titica (2) 53', 79' National Rugby Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam Paulo Duarte (Portugal) 1,000 14 March 2015 BEL 17–14 Team Sheet MDA Christope Debaty 17' cThomas Demolder 35' c Alan Williams (2) Alan Williams 45' Veaceslav Titica 42'Vadim Cobilas 57' Octavian ManoliDorin Petrache Brussels Iñigo Atorrasagasti (Spain) 28 March 2015 BEL 71–10 Team Sheet SWE Thomas Demolder 7' cBaptiste Lescarboura (3) 10' c, 36', 46' cAlan Williams 18'Alain Miriallakis (3) 22' c, 27' c, 39' cFloriant Piron (2) 54' c, 74' cHugo Sensee 59' Alan Williams (7)Pablo Francisco Villar Andreas Austa 25' c Andreas Nilserius Jonathan Edwards 13' KVW-Zaventem Stadium, Brussels Ben Whitehouse (Wales) 950 18 April 2015 BEL 53–23 POL Charles Reynaert (2)Guillaume PironBaptiste LescarbouraBertrand BiliiMax DuboisQuentin BoucarKevin Williams Florian Piron (2)Nicolas Meeus (3) Florian Piron Mateusz BartoszekPatryk Reksulak Dawid Banaszek (2) Dawid Banaszek (2) Dawid Popławski Brussels 2,000 9 May 2015 POL 17–20 Team Sheet UKR Tomasz Rokicki 3' Dawid Banaszek (4) 21', 28', 56', 69' Vitali Kramarenko 9' cIevgen Chaika 51' c Oleg Kosariev (2) Oleg Kosariev (2) 14', 80+4' Arena Lublin, Lublin Tomáš Tůma (Czech Republic) 7,500 23 May 2015 UKR 18–10 NED Vyecheslav Ponomarenko 60'try 70'Oleg Kosariev 78' Oleg Kosariev 52' Norbecio Mambo 56' c Maarten Van Osch 57' Storm Carroll 3' Odesa 30 May 2015 NED 24–14 SWE Rik Roovers 7'Kyle Beakey 41' cLeon Koenan 66' cNorbecio Mambo 72' Leon KoenanMaarten Van Osch Magnus Rappestad 21' cDustin Eaton 62' c Dustin EatonNeill Erasmus Amsterdam 1,000 2015–16 Table Place Nation Games Points Bonuspoints Tablepoints Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff1UKR (31)550013684+303232BEL (26)540112765+623193MDA (32)52038784+33114NED (33)5203113123−101115POL (36)520388116−28086SWE (49)500571150−7911 Pre-tournament World Rugby rankings in parentheses (as at 1 September 2015) Games 12 September 2015 SWE 11–29 POL Enköping 325 29 September 2015 SWE 20–48 BEL Gowland 32'Darbyshire 47' Erasmus (2) Erasmus (2) Lescarboura (2) 22', 40'Corradi 36'Vocea 44'Sensee 58'Penalty try (2) 55', 65' Piron (5) Piron Enköping S. Gaffikin 1 000 10 October 2015 UKR 17–16 BEL Kyiv Radu Petrescu (Romania) 17 October 2015 UKR 30–14 POL S. Tserkovniy (2) 22' c, 39'S. Sukhikh 75'M. Kirsanov 80' c O. Kosariev (2) 11', 81' O. Kosariev (2) 11', 46' M. Bartoszek 43' cR. Szrejber 55' c D. Banaszek (2) 44', 56' Podilla, Khmelnytskyi Vlad Iordăchescu (Romania) 3,180 7 November 2015 SWE 7–25 MDA Johansson 76' c Johansson 76' Titica 6' c, 54'Prepelita 14', 37' Golubenco 6' Golubenco 11' Malmö T. Tuma (Czech Republic) 200 14 November 2015 POL 18–14 MDA Sirocki 71'Wilczuk 74' c Banaszek 75' Banaszek (2) 13', 52' Castravet 55' cGajion 78' Petrache 56' Polonian Stadium, Warsaw Iñigo Atorrasagasti (Spain) 5500 20 February 2016 BEL 32–8 NED Brussels Radu Petrescu (Romania) 12 March 2016 MDA 9–10 BEL Golubenco (3) 23', 43', 73' Benoy 81' Meeus 81' Meeus 25' Chișinău E. Rizzo (Italy) 700 19 March 2016 POL 11–21 BEL Warsaw Ian Tempest (England) 19 March 2016 MDA 22–13 NED Chișinău T. Tuma (Czech Republic) 30 April 2016 NED 40–16 POL Tom Altink 23'Dirk Danen 32'Rik Roovers 44' cNorbecio Mambo 64'Amir Rademaker 78'Alex Povel 82' c Leon Koenen (2) 45', 83' Storm Carroll (2) 2', 14' Kamil Babryk 19'Aleksander Nowicki 70' Michał Kępac 11'Tomasz Gasik 29' Amsterdam F. Himmer (Germany) 5,000 30 April 2016 UKR 23–10 SWE Viacheslav Ponomarenko 17' cIvan Zalizniak 80' c Oleg Kosariev (2) 8', 80' Oleg Kosariev (3) 40', 42', 48' Frederik Ensta 50' c Philip Murphy 51' Jimmie Rissanen National Tax University of Ukraine, Irpin Paulo Duarte 400 7 May 2016 NED 27–30 UKR 14 May 2016 SWE 23–25 NED 15 May 2016 UKR 36–17 MDA Odesa Cedric Marchat (France) Combined table (2014–2016) Place Nation Games Points Bonuspoints Tablepoints Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff1BEL (30)10901316143+1735412UKR (32)10802244165+794363MDA (29)10505245167+787274NED (31)10406194197−36225POL (35)10406191262−712186SWE (44)100010120376−25611 Promotion to 2017 Rugby Europe Championship Relegation to 2016–17 Rugby Europe Conference Pre-tournament IRB rankings in parentheses (as at 1 September 2014) See also European Nations Cup (rugby union) FIRA - Association of European Rugby Six Nations Championship Antim Cup References External links FIRA-AER official website 2014-16 Nations Cup Nations Cup Category:2014 rugby union tournaments for national teams Category:2015 rugby union tournaments for national teams Category:2016 rugby union tournaments for national teams