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Rugby Europe Super Cup
Current season or competition:
2023 Rugby Europe Super Cup
SportRugby Union
Instituted2021; 3 years ago (2021)
Number of teams8
Country Belgium
 Georgia
 Israel
 Netherlands
 Portugal
 Romania
 Spain
HoldersThe Black Lion (2nd title) (2022)
Websitewww.rugbyeurope.eu/super-cup/

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] The first Super Cup draw will take place in 2021.

Format

The tournament was announced as an annual event for emerging nations in Europe. Professional rugby clubs and franchise teams can take part in it. Teams are divided into two conferences: western and eastern. Each team will play every conference rival home and away. The two best teams from each conference will advance to the semi-finals, where they will play for a ticket to the final.

The Eastern Conference Joined The Western Conference Joined
The Black Lion Georgia (country) Georgia 2021-22 Brussels Devils Belgium Belgium 2021-22
Tel Aviv Heat Israel Israel 2021-22 The Delta Netherlands Netherlands 2021-22
Romanian Wolves Romania Romania 2022 Lusitanos XV Portugal Portugal 2021-22
Batumi RC Georgia (country) Georgia 2022 Castilla y León Iberians Spain Spain[2] 2021-22

The first competition included two Russian teams who were expelled following the invasion of Ukraine, to be replaced with teams from Romania and Georgia in the second season.

Former teams Years
Lokomotiv Penza  Russia 2021-22
Yenisey-STM 2021-22

The goal of the tournament is to bridge the development gap between European countries and attract new sponsors in new markets. All 27 matches will be filmed and widely broadcast on TV and digital platforms.

The plan is to expand the Super Cup to include 12 teams by 2023 and 16 teams by 2025.[3]

Finals

Year Host Winner Score Runner-up
2021–22 Lisbon Georgia (country) The Black Lion 17–14 Portugal Lusitanos XV
2022 Tbilisi Georgia (country) The Black Lion 29–17 Israel Tel Aviv Heat

Performances by team

Team Winners Runner-up Third place
Georgia (country) The Black Lion 2 (2021–22, 2022)
Portugal Lusitanos XV 1 (2021–22) 1 (2022)
Israel Tel Aviv Heat 1 (2022) 1 (2021–22)
Spain Castilla y León Iberians 2 (2021–22, 2022)

References

  1. ^ "Rugby Europe launch The Super Cup". Rugby Europe. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  2. ^ Sport (2021-07-08). "Rugby Europe lanza una nueva competición de clubes". sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  3. ^ "A new dawn for Israeli rugby". Jerusalem Post. 2021-07-18. Retrieved 2021-07-27.