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2009–10 European Challenge Cup

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2009–10 European Challenge Cup
Date October 2009 to May 2010
Teams 20
Matches played 59/67
Attendance
Final
Venue
Attendance
Champions
Runner-up

The 2009–10 European Challenge Cup, also known as the Amlin Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the fourteenth edition of the European Challenge Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from six nations in European rugby. It started on 8 October 2009 at Sixways Stadium in Worcester with Worcester Warriors hosting Montpellier, and will end with the final on the weekend of 21-23 May 2010. The reigning champions are Northampton Saints, who did not defend their title as they qualified for the 2009–10 Heineken Cup, and are currently in the quarterfinals of that competition.

Teams

Five English teams and eight French teams will compete because an English team - Leicester Tigers - progressed farther in the 2008-09 Heineken Cup than any French or Italian team.

Other countries will have their usual number of teams: Ireland one, Romania one and one from Spain.[1]

France England Italy Ireland Romania Spain

Pool stage

The draw for the pool stages took place on 15 June 2009. The seeding system was the same as for the 2008-09 tournament. The 20 competing teams were ranked based on past Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup performance, with each pool receiving one team from each Tier.[3] The requirement to have only one team per country in each pool will, however, still apply (with the exception of the inclusion of the sixth, seventh and eight French teams).

Beginning with this season's competition, only the pool winners will advance to the knockout stage. They will be joined by three clubs from the 2009–10 Heineken Cup, specifically the third- through fifth-highest ranking teams that finished second in their pool (the top two second-place teams enter the Heineken Cup knockout stage).[4]

Team seedings

Seeding was determined by the teams' position in the ERC Rankings at the time of the pool draw in June 2009.

Rank Team Total Points 2008-09 Points 2007-08 Points 2006-07 Points 2005-06 Points
7 London Wasps 19 3 2 11 3
12 Saracens 14 2 7 2 3
19 Bourgoin 8 3 2 1 2
22 Worcester 7 2 3 0 2
25 Newcastle 6 1 2 1 2
27 Castres 5 1 1 2 1
30 Leeds 4 0 1 0 3
31 Calvisano 3 1 0 1 1
34 Connacht 2 1 0 0 1
35 Montauban 1 1 0 0 0
37 Montpellier 1 0 1 0 0
38 Overmach Parma 1 0 0 1 0
39 Bayonne 1 0 0 0 1
Key to colours
     Winner of each pool,advance to quarterfinals
Along with 3rd, 4th and 5th best runners up in the Heineken Cup group stages.
Seed # in parentheses
     Eliminated at the pool stage

Pool 1

Team Pld W D L TF PF PA +/− BP Pts
France Bourgoin 6 5 0 1 15 141 86 +55 3 23
England Leeds Carnegie 6 4 0 2 19 160 82 +78 3 19
Italy Overmach Parma 6 2 0 4 5 78 145 −67 0 8
Romania Bucureşti Oaks 6 1 0 5 5 70 136 −66 2 6

Pool 2

Team Pld W D L TF PF PA +/− BP Pts
Ireland Connacht 6 6 0 0 28 199 63 +136 2 26
France Montpellier 6 4 0 2 18 158 92 +66 3 19
England Worcester Warriors 6 2 0 4 18 140 83 +57 5 13
Spain Olympus Madrid 6 0 0 6 4 44 303 −269 0 0

Pool 3

Team Pld W D L TF PF PA +/− BP Pts
France Toulon 6 5 0 1 27 218 88 +130 3 23
England Saracens 6 5 0 1 17 182 81 +101 2 22
France Castres Olympique 6 2 0 4 23 173 127 +46 3 11
Italy Rovigo 6 0 0 6 2 41 318 −277 0 0

Pool 4

Team Pld W D L TF PF PA +/− BP Pts
England London Wasps 6 5 0 1 21 176 68 +108 3 23
France Bayonne 6 4 0 2 23 184 73 +111 3 19
France Racing Métro 6 3 0 3 22 177 85 +92 4 16
Italy Rugby Roma Olimpic 6 0 0 6 1 28 338 −310 0 0

Pool 5

Team Pld W D L TF PF PA +/− BP Pts
England Newcastle Falcons 6 5 0 1 16 146 77 +69 3 23
France Montauban 6 5 0 1 13 132 96 +36 1 21
France Albi 6 2 0 4 13 117 137 −20 4 12
Italy Petrarca Padova 6 0 0 6 8 95 180 −85 1 1

Knock-Out stage Seedings

  • Bare numbers indicate Challenge quarterfinal seeding.
  • Numbers with "HC" indicate Heineken Cup 3rd-5th Runners-Up.
Seeds Top 4 Pool Winners Pts TF +/−
1 Ireland Connacht 26 28 +136
2 France Toulon 23 27 +130
3 England London Wasps 23 21 +108
4 England Newcastle Falcons 23 16 +69
Non-Seeds (Worst Pool Winner and HC Runners-up) Pts TF +/−
5HC Wales Cardiff Blues 18 14 +45
6HC England Gloucester 17 12 -10
7HC Wales Scarlets 17 12 -31
8 France Bourgoin 23 15 +55

Knock-out stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
10 April – Galway Sportsgrounds
 
 
Ireland Connacht
 
TBC –
 
France Bourgoin
 
 
 
11 April – Kingston Park
 
 
 
England Newcastle Falcons
 
TBC –
 
Wales Cardiff Blues
 
 
 
10 April – Stade Mayol
 
 
 
France Toulon
 
TBC –
 
Wales Scarlets
 
 
 
11 April – Adams Park
 
 
 
England London Wasps
 
 
England Gloucester
 

Quarter Finals

All kickoff times are in Central European Time.

  1. 10 April 2010
    21:00
    Toulon FrancevWales Scarlets
    Stade Mayol, Toulon

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ "European Challenge Cup Pool Draw 2009/10". European Rugby Cup. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  2. ^ Rome replaced Calvisano in Rugbyrama
  3. ^ "ERC European Rankings". European Rugby Cup. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  4. ^ "Format and qualification changes for Europe" (Press release). European Rugby Cup. 2009-06-15. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
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