2021–22 Rugby Europe Trophy

{{Infobox Rugby Europe International Championships

| name = 2021–22 Rugby Europe Trophy

| image =

| caption =

| date = 9 October 2021 – 9 April 2022

| countries = {{ru|BEL}}
{{ru|GER}}
{{ru|LTU}}
{{ru|POL}}
{{ru|SUI}}
{{ru|UKR}}

| teams = 6

| champions = {{ru|BEL}}

| count = 3

| grand slam =

| matches = 12

| attendance = {{#expr:

2000

+ 500

+ 450

+ 2500 + 1140

+ 1000

+ 1376

+ 800 + 1850

+ 300

+ 2000

}}

| tries = 78

| top point scorer =

| top try scorer =

| Player of the tournament =

| website =

| previous year = 2019–20

| previous tournament = 2019–20 Rugby Europe Trophy

| next year = 2022–23

| next tournament = 2022–23 Rugby Europe Trophy

}}

The 2021–22 Rugby Europe Trophy is the fifth season of the second premier rugby union competition for European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship which itself is a part of the Rugby Europe International Championships. The confirmed teams that are competing include Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine.

Participants

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rowspan="2"|Nation

!colspan="3"|Stadium

!rowspan="2"|Head coach

!rowspan="2"|Captain

Home stadium

!Capacity

!Location

{{ru|BEL}}

|Stade Communal Fallon

|2,500

|Brussels

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Frédéric Cocqu

| Jean-Maurice Decubber

{{ru|GER}}

|Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark

|5,000

|Heidelberg

|{{flagicon|GER}} Mark Kuhlmann

|Jörn Schröder

{{ru|LTU}}

|Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium

|4,000

|Šiauliai

|{{flagicon|LTU}} Gediminas Marcišauskas

|Tautvydas Krasauskas

{{ru|POL}}

|Narodowy Stadion Rugby
Stadion Polonii

|2,425
7,150

|Gdynia
Warsaw

|{{flagicon|WAL}} Christian Hitt

|Piotr Zeszutek

{{ru|SUI}}

|Stade Municipal Yverdon
Colovray Sports Centre
Centre Sportif des Cherpines

|6,600
7,200
1,000

|Yverdon-les-Bains
Nyon
Plan-les-Ouates

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Olivier Nier

|Cyril Lin

{{ru|UKR}}

|Spartak Stadium
Skif Stadium
KhTZ Stadium

|4,800
3,742
2,000

|Odesa
Lviv
Kharkiv

|{{flagicon|UKR}} Valerii Kochanov

|Oleg Kosariev
Viacheslav Ponomarenko

Table

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width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|Champions and promoted to Championship

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|Promoted to Championship

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rowspan="2"|Place

!rowspan="2"|Nation

!colspan="4"|Games

!colspan="3"|Points

!colspan="3"|Tries

!rowspan="2"|{{tooltip|TBP|Try BP}}

!rowspan="2"|{{tooltip|LBP|Losing BP}}

!rowspan="2"|Table
points

Played

!Won

!Drawn

!Lost

!For

!Against

!Diff

!For

!Against

!Diff

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|1

style="text-align:left"|{{ru|BEL}}540114976+73215+164121
bgcolor="#FFFFCC"

|2

style="text-align:left"|{{ru|POL}}5401139116+23151501017
bgcolor="#FFFFCC"

|3

style="text-align:left"|{{ru|GER}}530215095+55169+73217
4style="text-align:left"|{{ru|SUI}}5203120117+3914−5109
5style="text-align:left"|{{ru|UKR}}510463148−85913−4015
6style="text-align:left"|{{ru|LTU}}5104108177−691226−14015
colspan="100%" style="text-align:center"|Source - {{Cite web|url=https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/competitions/trophy-2021-22/|title = 2021-22 Rugby Europe Trophy standings}}
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 | Completing a Grand Slam – 1 point
{{Cite web |url=https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/sites/default/files/document/180908_bj_am_re_manual_reic_2018-2019_v2.pdf|title=Rugby Europe International Championships 2018-2019 Manual|publisher=Rugby Europe|access-date=1 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108081622/https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/sites/default/files/document/180908_bj_am_re_manual_reic_2018-2019_v2.pdf|archive-date=8 January 2019|url-status=dead}}

Fixtures

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|date = 9 October 2021

|time = 12:50 EEST (UTC +3)

|home = (1 LBP) {{ru-rt|UKR}}

|score = 24–27

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|stadium = Yunist Stadion, Lviv

|attendance = 2,000

|referee = John Catteau (Belgium)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 23 October 2021

|time = 13:50 EEST (UTC+03)

|home = (1 LBP) {{ru-rt|LTU}}

|score = 37–39

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/eh4mbfrv/lithvukr.pdf Report]

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|stadium = Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai

|attendance = 500

|referee = Ethan Glass (Switzerland)

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|date = 30 October 2021

|time = 13:50 EEST (UTC+03)

|home = {{ru-rt|LTU}}

|score = 16–46

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|away = {{ru|GER}} (1 TBP)

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|stadium = Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai

|attendance = 450

|referee = Gert Visser (Netherlands)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 13 November 2021

|time = 14:55 CET (UTC+01)

|home = {{ru-rt|POL}}

|score = 21–16

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/qzldobqj/211113-ret21-polvger-gamesheet.pdf Report]

|away = {{ru|GER}} (1 LBP)

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|stadium = Narodowy Stadion Rugby, Gdynia

|attendance = 2,500

|referee = Saba Abulashvili (Georgia)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 13 November 2021

|time = 15:20 CET (UTC+01)

|home = {{ru-rt|SWI}}

|score = 20–28

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/mwjhob1f/211113-recf1s-suivltu-gamesheet.pdf Report]

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|stadium = Centre Sportif de Colovray, Nyon

|attendance = 1,140

|referee = Dan O'Connell (Germany)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 20 November 2021

|time = 14:20 CET (UTC+01)

|home = {{ru-rt|POL}}

|score = 37–25

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/qfwf12sm/pol-vs-sui-gamesheet-tro-m-reic-21-22.pdf Report]

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|stadium = Stadion Polonii, Warsaw

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|referee = Eki Fanlo (Spain)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 12 February 2022

|time = 15:00 CET (UTC+01)

|home = (1 TBP) {{ru-rt|BEL}}

|score = 28–0{{Cite web|url=https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/news/belgium-v-ukraine-cancelled/|title=Belgium v Ukraine - Cancelled}}

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|date = 19 February 2022

|time = 14:50 CET (UTC+01)

|home = (1 LBP) {{ru-rt|GER}}

|score = 26–33

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/r0hn10di/220219-ret-gervbel-gamesheet.pdf Report]

|away = {{ru|BEL}} (1 TBP)

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|stadium = Fritz Grunebaum Sportpark, Heidelberg

|attendance = 1,000

|referee = Shota Tevzadze (Georgia)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 12 March 2022

|time = 15:20 CET (UTC+01)

|home = {{ru-rt|SWI}}

|score = 22–18

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/2a4bzogo/220312-retrophy-sui_bel_gamesheet.pdf Report]

|away = {{ru|BEL}} (1 LBP)

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|stadium = Stade des Cherpines, Geneva

|attendance = 1,376

|referee = Alexandru Ionescu (Romania)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 19 March 2022

|time = 13:45 CET (UTC+01)

|home = (1 TBP) {{ru-rt|GER}}

|score = 34–25

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/2yaj3xxa/220319-ret-gervsui-gamesheet.pdf Report]

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|stadium = Sportzentrum Martinsee, Heusenstamm

|attendance = 800

|referee = Gert Visser (Ireland)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 19 March 2022

|time = 14:50 CET (UTC+01)

|home = (1 TBP) {{ru-rt|BEL}}

|score = 41–11

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/ewgkbyws/220319-ret-belvpol-gamesheet.pdf Report]

|away = {{ru|POL}}

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|stadium = Sportscentrum Nelson Mandela, Brussels

|attendance = 1,850

|referee = Andrew Cole (Netherlands)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 26 March 2022

|time = 13:50 EST (UTC+03)

|home = {{ru-rt|LTU}}

|score = 17–29

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/xsrm3qtc/220326-ret-ltuvbel-gamesheet.pdf Report]

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|stadium = Šiauliai Rugby Academy Stadium, Šiauliai

|attendance = 300

|referee = Inigo Atorrasagasti (Spain)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 9 April 2022

|time = 14:35 CEST (UTC+02)

|home = (1 TBP) {{ru-rt|POL}}

|score = 43–10

|report = [https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/media/yegicqtv/v2_20220409_vh_gamesheet_subs-cards_pol-ltu-2021-22-2-002.pdf Report]

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|stadium = Narodowy Stadion Rugby, Gdynia

|attendance = 2,000

|referee = Eugeniu Procopi, (Romania)

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 16 April 2022

|time = 15:00 CEST (UTC +2)

|home = {{ru-rt|GER}}

|score = 28–0{{Cite web|url=https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/competitions/trophy-2021-22/germany-v-ukraine/|title = Germany v Ukraine}}

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{{Rugbybox

|date = 30 April 2022

|time = 15:00 EEST (UTC +3)

|home = {{ru-rt|UKR}}

|score = 0–28{{Cite web|url=https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/competitions/trophy-2021-22/ukraine-v-switzerland/|title = Ukraine v Switzerland}}

|report = n/a

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|stadium = Dynamo Stadium, Kharkiv

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See also

References

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